390 Mr. C. G. Lamb on 



Legs principally orange. Front : coxa greyish with bristles in 

 front ; femur rather swollen in the middle with long orange hairs, 

 no bristles ; tibia swollen for its distal half, also covered with long 

 soft hairs, a long front preapical bristle; tarsus with 1st joint 

 about as long as the next three, the last joint larger, all bristly, 

 the bristles getting longer towards the end, claws stout and black, 

 pads pale, a long black bristle for empodium. Middle : similar to 

 front pair, but the tibia has a very strong crown of spines, and the 

 tarsal bristles are stouter. Hind : similar, but the femur and tibia 

 are but little swollen and are longer, a crown to tibia, and a large 

 long hind preapical; tarsi with usual golden pads [clothing bristles 

 shorter and more bristly, without the long soft hairs]. 



Abdomen, grey with fine whitish pollen, covered with small hairs, 

 except for the penultimate segment which has long hairs. 



Length about 7J mm. 



Wing about 6 mm. 



Collected by R. Vallentin, 1902-3. Types in British 

 Museum. 



Synhoplos, gen. no v. (Ephydridae). 



This genus is related to Scatella and Scatophila, having 

 a very similar facies, but it is almost wingless in both 

 sexes. The face has a very pronounced median ridge 

 carrying a knob, and this ridge forms deep-set side furrows 

 which receive the antennae. These latter have a very 

 bristly second joint, and the arista is distinctly, though 

 shortly, pectinate; eyes irregularly oval; jowls deep; 

 the lower lip is rather short, and does not close the oral 

 aperture completely; the chaetotaxy is somewhat like 

 that of Scatella, but the dorso-central and acrostichal 

 bristles are irregular; the scutellum has four bristles, the 

 end two being long, upright and crossed. A rather 

 noticeable feature is that the notopleura turns somewhat 

 into the dorsal plane, and is comparatively feebly 

 developed, owing to the feeble wing musculation. 



Synhoplos sturdeeanus, n. sp. 



<J. Head : top view : — broader than the thorax and about £ 

 as deep as broad, the forehead margin almost straight; the frons 

 is very broad, roughly square, the front ocellus is nearly in the 

 middle of the frons, all three ocelli are extremely minute and lie 

 nearly in an equilateral triangle. The frons is dark grey, with 



