118 MYCETOPHILID.E. 



73. Mycetophila Mnotata, sp. nov. 



c? $ . Head bright brownish yellow, upper part with short 

 black hairs ; fiagellum blackish, except towards base. Thorax with 

 scutellum, metanotum and sides concolorous, with minute golden 

 yellow pubescence ; pleurae sometimes brownish ; the whole dorsuin 

 covered with irregularly placed black bristles, which occur liberally 

 in rather stronger form around the marginal region of the thorax, 

 on the humeri, \vith a fan-shaped row of five below the humeri ; 

 the scutellum bearing four strong ones towards the hind margin. 

 Abdomen blackish, compressed, posterior margins of segments 

 narrowly dull yellow. Genitalia in male with the 2nd joint very 

 elongate, narrow, curved, erect, pointed at tip ; in the female 

 small, concealed ; in both sexes brownish yellow. Legs yellowish, 

 tibiae slight!} 7 darker, tarsi blackish. Wings yellowish, rather 

 darker on anterior part ; a brown, suffused oval spot at tip 

 of basal cell, enclosing the junction of the veins. Halteres 

 yellow. 



Length 3 millim. 



Described from one male (type} taken by me at Darjiling, 

 20. ix. 08, with two other specimens from there, 26. ix. 08 and 

 29. v. 10 (Brunetti) ; a male from Ukhrul, Manipur ; and two 

 males and a female (type) from Simla, 10. v. 09 (Annandale). 



Types in the Indian Museum. 



Genus DELOPSIS, Skuse. 

 Delopsis,Skvi8e, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, (2) v, p. 623 (1890). 



GENOTYPE, D. flavipennis, Skuse ; by original designation. 



Head somewhat longish-round, flattened, situated deep in the 

 thorax ; front broad, the anterior border produced triangularly 

 in the middle, the point reaching the basal joint of the antennas; 

 eyes oval ; ocelli two, large. Palpi prominent, incurved, four- 

 jointed, 1st joint small, 2nd robust, about two-and-a-half times 

 the length of the 1st, 3rd slender, clavate, about the length of 

 the first two combined, 4th very slender, clavate, the length of 

 the first three combined. Antennae porrect, arcuated, 16-jointed, 

 1st joint of the scape obconical, much longer than the 2nd, the 

 2nd cyathiform, setiferous at the apex; flagellar joints cylindrical, 

 progressively diminishing in thickness, with a short downy pub- 

 escence. Thorax longish-ovate, gibbose, the anterior margin 

 projecting somewhat over and closely applied to the head, as in 

 Sceptonia, densely covered with short longitudinally disposed hairs ; 

 setiferous about the origin of the wings ; scutellum semicircular, 

 with long setae ; metanotum very short, steep, gibbose, almost 

 hidden by the scutellum. Abdomen with six segments in both 

 sexes ; somewhat flattened, narrower than the thorax, narrowing 

 at the base and apex. Genitalia not conspicuous in either sex. 



