204 On Diplera Nematocera from Ceylon. 



Styringomyia shortly, and so defer consideration of Brunetti's 

 species until then. 



11. Trentepohtia speiseri, sp. n. 



Mongoma exornata, Speiser (nee Bergr.), Berl. ent. Zeit. lii. p. 135 

 (1907). 



Length of body 5 mm. 



c? ? . Head, including antenna? and palpi, dark brownish. 

 Thorax dark reddish brown. Abdomen blackish brown. 

 Leys light yellowish, the tips of the tarsi a little darker. 

 Front and middle femora with about eight short bristles near 

 the base beneath. Wings with a brown apex, much darker 

 towards the costa, but leaving a small clear space in the cell 

 B 2 (first submarginal) ; a large brown patch in the middle 

 of the wing, extending one-third of the way across and in 

 breadth reaching from the base of Rs to the apex of Sc ; 

 cross-veins and veins E 4+5 and Cu dark-margined. Cu x 

 joining M slightly (?) or considerably ( $ ) before its fork ; 

 Cu 2 joining An near its tip. Halteres yellowish. 



Peradeniya, ii. 1912 ; 1 £ (type; wing figured). I have 

 also seen the species from the following African localities: — 

 Entebbe, Uganda {CapL E. D. W. Oreig, I.M.S.), 1 " 5 

 Stanleyville, Belgian Congo, 1. ix. 1901, 1 ? ; Bo, Sierra 

 Leone (Br. H. E. Arbuckle, W.A.M.S.), 1 ? ; Gold Coast 

 (Willoughby P. Loioe), 2 ?. The African specimens are 

 rather larger and have the tips of the femora slightly 

 darkened. 



This species closely resembles T. exornata, Bergr., but the 

 presence of a well-marked brown patch in the middle of the 

 costa seems to indicate that it is really distinct. 



Trentepohlia speiseri, sp. n. Wing, x 18. 



12. Epiphragma hempi, Brun. Rec. Ind. Mus. viii. p. 155 

 (1913). 



Hakgala, 4500 feet, v. 1911 ; 1 £. 



The wing-markings of this specimen do not quite agree 

 with Brunetti's figure, but it is certainly only a variation 

 of his species, and may be conspecific with E. signata, Meij. 



