54 Dr. C. P. Alexnnflcr on 



Di'cranomyia connectans, sp. n. 



Colour dark brown; tarsi white; wings brown, the tips 

 (bnker ; cnrd far out near tlie wing-tip ; anal angle lackinir; 

 Cv2 **'"' 'ist A fused for a short distance back from tho 

 wing-margin. 



Male.— Lew gt\i 6-6-8-8 mm. ; wing 7-3-8-2 mm. 

 Female. — Length 07 mm. ; wing (j"8 mm. 

 Rostrum yellowish brown, darkest above. Palpi dark 

 brown. Antenna; dark brown, the first segment palor brown ; 

 flagellar segments elongate-oval, with long blaek verticils. 

 Jlead dark brown. 



Pronotum dark brown, yellowish laterally. j\Iesonotal 



prescntiim reddish brown without stripes, tho humeral region 



a little brighter. Pleura pale, sparsely yellowish poUinose. 



Halteres very elongate, dark brown. Legs with the fore 



coxffi brown, tho other coxa3 yellowish ; trochanters dull 



yellow ; remainder of the legs dark brown excepting the 



tarsi, which are largely white ; on the fore legs only the 



extreme bases of the metatarsi are a little infuscated ; the 



other legs have about the basal third of the metat;usus 



brown, broadest on the middle legs; two terminal tarsal 



segments bright yellow. Wings cuneiform, with no anal 



angle, the cord, lying far out near the wing-tip ; membrane 



strongly brownish, darkest at the apex; stigma oval, dark 



brown ; veins dark bruwnish black. Venation as in /). c»Ne/- 



Jhrniis, do Meij., with the following exceptions : — cell 1st J/j 



shorter, nearly square, the basal deflection of Cmj just before 



the middle ot its length ; 1st A runs close to A/ and is fnse<l 



with Cua at the wing-margin, this short fusion about equal 



to Scj. 



Abdomen elongate, dark brown, including the hypopygium. 



I/ah. West Africa. 



IJolotype^ cJ , Lolodorf, Cameroun, January 9, 1919 {J. A. 

 neis). 



A(lotopotj/pe, ? , January 0, 1919. 



ParatopotT/pes, 2 S > January 9-15, 1919. 



J), connectans is closely related to D. cuneiformh^ de ^Icij. 

 (Java), but is readily separated from this and all other known 

 sjjecies of the genus by the apical fusion of Ct/g and 1st A. 



Dicrannptycha nafalia, sp. n. 



General coloration dark brown, the wings with a strong 

 dark lirown suffusion. 



Main. — Length S-^'^i mm. : wing 8"3-8*G mm. 



