84 MYCETOPHILIDJE. 



39. Gnoriste spathulata, sp. nov. (PL III, fig. 8.) 



J . Head : vertex and irons black, a little shining, with a few 

 stiff hairs. The ocelli very distinct, reddish brown, the outer ones 

 large, the middle one only a little smaller and barely lower on the 

 frons. Proboscis one-and-a-half times the height of the head, 

 brownish yellow, with long broad labella, giving a broad spatulate 

 appearance to the tip of the proboscis. Palpi pale yellow, long. 

 Antennal scape and first two or three flagellar joints yellow, the 

 remainder light brown, with rather thick whitish pubescence. 

 Thorax : dorsum shining black, prothorax yellowish ; pleurae dark 

 brownish black. Scutellum black, a little pale on underside ; meta- 

 notum dark blackish brown. Abdomen black, the first two segments 

 with a brownish tinge, a few pale hairs ; belly similar. The geni- 

 talia (not easily seen) appear to consist of a dark rather pointed 

 pair of claspers bearing an elongate yellow finger-like appendage 

 near the tip, and a peculiar large leaf-shaped whitish scale; there 

 is also a comparatively small ventral V*sbaped blackish plate. 

 Legs rather bright yellow, base of the femora a little brownish, 

 tarsi darker. (Fore legs missing, except coxae.) Wings grey, the 

 apical third and front border a little darker. Venation normal. 

 Halteres deep yellow, rather large. 



Length 4 millim. 



Described from a single male from Darjiling, taken by myself, 

 29.V.10. 



Type in the Indian Museum. 



Owing to the drying of the wings the subcostal vein is not 

 apparent, and I am under the impression that in this species it 

 may be absent. 



Genus LEPTOMORPHUS, Curt. (PI. II, fig. 1.) 

 Leptomorphus, Curtis, Brit. Entom. p. 365 (1831). 



GENOTYPE, L. walkeri, Curt. ; by original designation. 



Head small, round, much narrower than the thorax, nearly 

 hemispherical, slightly flattened, placed low upon the thorax; 

 proboscis somewhat projecting ; eyes oval, emarginate at the base 

 of the antenna?; ocelli three in number, placed in a flattened 

 triangle on the front, the middle one smaller than the laterals. 

 Palpi cylindrical, incurved, four-jointed, the 1st joint very small, 

 the 3rd nearly twice as long as the 2nd, the 4th somewhat longer 

 than the 3rd. Antenna? long, filiform, projecting forward, 

 16-jointed ; the basal joints differentiated, the 2nd small, with 

 setae at the tip ; the flagellar joints cylindrical, somewhat com- 

 pressed, pubescent. Thorax short, oval, highly arched ; mesonoturn 

 with setae only at the sides ; metanotum high, strongly arched. 

 Abdomen very long, slender, nearly linear, compressed, seyen- 

 jointed, with short terminal joint ; the male with moderate forceps. 

 Legs long, slender, the tibiae with long spurs and very minute 



