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Mr. F. W. Edwards on 



Mycetophilidae. 



1, Macrocera fryeri, sp. n. 



Length of body 3-4 mm., of antenna 12-16 mm. 



£ . Brownish yellow; wings not hairy, with dark 

 markings. 



Head yellowish, more brownish on the vertex ; antennae 

 with the first three joints yellowish, the remainder dark 

 brown ; palpi brownish. Thorax yellowish brown; a dark 

 brown vertical stripe on the pleurse, extending on to the sides 

 of the mesonotum, situated between the first two pairs of 

 legs. Abdomen brownish yellow, the middle segments 

 indistinctly darker at the base. Legs yellowish brown, the 

 tarsi somewhat darker. Wings bare ; apical third occupied 

 by a large dark brown patch, the anterior edge of which is 

 rather irregular and has a large angular projection on Cui ; 

 another brown patch towards the costa near the middle of the 

 wing, rilling the greater portion of the cell ~R X ; a small one 

 near costa, more towards the base, including origin of Rs, and 

 a brown spot in the cell Cu : a little way from the base ; Sc 

 reaching costa opposite origin of Rs. Halteres yellowish, 

 knobs dark. 



Peradeniya, ix. 1911 ; 4 £ . 



The strongly darkened apical third of the wing plainly 

 marks this species off from the seven described by Brunetti 

 from the Orient. 



Macrocera fryeri, sp. n. Wing, X 13. 



2. Leiomyia maculicoxa (Enderlein). 



Leia maculicoxa, End. Trans. Linn. Soc, Zool. xiv. p. 69 (1910). 

 Rhymosia fascipes, Brun. Fauna Brit. Ind. p. 106 (1912). 



Peradeniya, x. 1912 ; 1 S ■ 



There is no doubt as to the above synonymy, since the 

 genitalia o£ the Ceylon and Seychelles specimens appea. 



