EATON— DIPTERA, PSYCHODID^ 



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M^, at the median fork, opposite the spot on R", Cv} and A) ; and at the margin of the 

 disk 8 small spots of spreading hair at the ends of nervures preceded by some white 

 hairs invaded by the coppery gloss of the fringe in the apical portion of the wing, — 

 amounting altogether to 9 blackish spots or tufts on the disk and 8 clear of the fi-inge 

 along the margin or 17 in all : 7^' and IV" lacking the terminal dark spots. Abdomen and 

 under parts of head and thorax blackish ; its dense suberect dorsal hair frosted with 

 white at the tips of the hairs when turned about. Pubescence of the upper parts of head 

 and thorax whitish, or greyish-white with white-tipped hairs, according to standpoint ; 

 frons and palpi, from in front, greyish-brown or blackish. Antennge brown ; scape with 

 impure whitish-glossed, light brown scales ; hair of flagellum whitish-warm sepia grey, 

 shifting to impure white with change of standpoint. Legs light brownish-grey shifting 

 to blackish, and adorned with impure white scale-markings, viz. : — a small spot or narrow 

 edging externally at the tibio-tarsal joining ; a narrow apical annulation on the first tarsal 

 joint (metatarsus) ; the 2nd joint wholly whitish ; the last 3 joints black-scaled, more or 

 less tinged with dull testaceous in certain aspects, and from other standpoints glossed 

 throughout with whitish. Wing 2 mm. long. 



Loc. Seychelles. Mahe : from near Morne Blanc, about 800 feet, 2 ?. Felicite : 

 XII. 1908, 1 ?. $ unknown. Prep., Eaton, no. 49 a, wing denuded. 



NoTiocHARis, gen. nov. (PI. 26, fig. 5 a—/). 



Wings ovate-lanceolate, subacute apically between R* and R^; cross-veins obsolescent ; 

 anterior basal cell vaguely indicated, about -^th of the wing's length ; pedicel of the 

 sectorial fork nearly twice the length of the part of the stem between the sectors R* and 

 R'" ; cubital fork shortly petiolate ; vein A short, and nearly straight. 



Antennse in $ (if not defective) 12-jointed ; 1st joint elongate, somewhat triquetrous, 

 on one side protuberant and scale-clad at the tip, longer than the third ; 2nd joint ovoid, 

 ample, shorter than the next, squamate ; 3rd joint, subcylindrical, slender, equal in 

 length to tlie 4th and 5th joints combined, and beset with crowded verticels of long 

 curved spreading hair nearly throughout ; the succeeding joints ovoid-fusiform with long 

 subverticelate curved hairs spreading much in the same fashion as in Panimeiits or 

 Clytocerus; 12th joint Indian-club-shaped, approximated to the eleventh. 



Genitalia imperfectly explored ; inferior $ appendages subequal in length to their 

 basis ; tenacular set* wiry and numerous ; the longest nearly as long as the limbs. 



3. Notiocharis insignis, sp. nov. (PI. 26, fig. 5 a — ;•/"). 



Wings with conspicuous hair-markings, in part black, blackish grey, light yellow and 

 in part white ; viz. : — a narrow basal band at the roots, impure whitish ; a broad band 

 extending from near the fold of deflection outwards to the end of i?" on the costa and to 

 that of Cm' on the inner margin, subtransverse basally, oblique apically, and widest 

 posteriorly, occupying the gi'eater part of the disk, and enclosing 3 small but con- 

 spicuous snow-white spots formed of depresso-convex scales lying lengthwise clear of the 

 fringe, and placed at the wing-margin outside the ends of vein A and of the two cubital 



