MOLOPH1LUS. ERIOPTERA. 445 



single, straight, the lower one forked just beyond the anterior 

 cross-vein ; all the veins on distal part of wing approximately 

 parallel ; posterior cross-vein placed just after forking of fourth 

 A'ein, in the middle of the wing ; the 5th, 6th and 7th veins 

 nearly straight. All the veins with a thick row of hairs. Halteres 

 yellowish, clubs darker. 



Length l|-2 millim. 



Described from several examples of both sexes in the Indian 

 Museum, from Simla, 7000 ft., 12. v. 08 (Annandale) ; Kurseong, 

 4-6. vii. 08, 18-20. vi. 10 (type tf); Maddathorai, 16. xi. 08 (type 

 $ ), and Terimalai, 22. xi. 08, Travancore, South India, all taken 

 by Dr. Annandale. 



319. Molophilus assamensis, sp. nov 



<5 . Head : occiput, proboscis and palpi yellowish, the latter a 

 little darker. Antennae of considerable size and length ; scapal 

 joints very short, rounded ; flagellum of fourteen very elongated 

 joints, with long pubescence on each side of every joint except at 

 the base and the tip ; the whole antennae brownish yellow. Thorax 

 uniformly brownish yellow, with some long yellow hairs on each 

 side. Scutellum, metanoturn and sides of thorax concolorous. 

 Abdomen brownish ; traces of yellow here and there, especially 

 towards the tip, last segment yellowish ; the whole abdomen 

 rather freely covered with black and yellowish hairs. G-enital 

 organs large and conspicuous, brownish yellow, very pubescent ; 

 consisting of a pair of large claspers, and below these a pair of 

 black, very attenuated, hard, slisrhtly curved, hook-like processes ; 

 also two smaller pairs of sub-filamentous appendages. Legs uni- 

 formly yellow, with close yellow pubescence. Winys pale grey, 

 thickly set with long blackish hairs along all the veins and on the 

 borders of the wing. Venation as in J/. inconspicua. Halteres 

 yellowish, knob darker. 



Length 2 millim. 



Described from a unique specimen from Sylhet, 8. i. 06 

 (Lt.-Col. Hall). 



Type in the Indian Museum. 



Genus ERIOPTERA, Mg. 



Erioptera, Meigen, Illig. Mag. ii, p. 262 (1803). 



Chemalida, Roiidani, Dipt. Ital. Prod, i, p. 180 (1856). 



Limncea, Rondani, loc. cit.,i, p. 180 (1856). 



Limnoica, Rondani, loc. cit., Corrigenda, p. 11 (1861). 



? Octavia, Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. France (3) ii, p. 475 (1854). 



GBKOTYPE, Erioptera lutca, Mg. ; by designation of Coquillett 

 (1910). 



Head: frons distinctly broad, varying from about one-fourth 

 to one-half the width of the head ; eyes glabrous, contiguous or 



