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first scapal joint not longer than the second; flagellar joints 
rather elongate-oval, all about equal in length, with scattered 
light brownish hairs; whole antenna about as long as the 
head and thorax together. Yhorax moderately shining. 
Prothorax pale yellow. Preescutum rather dark brown, with 
a broad pale yellow median stripe from the front margin 
almost to the suture ; the dark colour at the sides does not 
quite reach the front. Scutum, scutellum, and postnotum 
almost wholly brown, the first-named with a small yellowish 
spot just behind the suture. Pleuree wholly pale yellow. 
Abdomen pale yellowish, hind margins of tergites 1-5 brown. 
Legs yellowish, femora and tibize narrowly black at the tips ; 
tibiz without any trace of spurs*. Wings with both mem- 
brane and veins pale yellowish. Venation much asin A. flava, 
Brun., but Se; a little longer and cells M, and 2nd M, rather 
shorter; M, and M3; rather more divergent. Halteres pale 
yellowish. 
Length of body or wing 6 mm. 
Arisan, 10. x. 1912 (I. Nitobe), 1 2. 
Atarba fuscicornis, sp. n. 
Head shining ochreous. Antenne wholly blackish, a little 
shorter than in A. pallidicornis, last few flagellar joints 
distinctly shorter than those at the base. Labella yellowish, 
palpi black. Thorax shining. Prescutum and seutum 
ochreous in the middle, blackish brown at the sides up to the 
front margin. Scutellum ochreous. Postnotum brownish. 
Pleurz ochreous. Abdomen dark brownish above, ovipositor 
and venter ochreous. Legs uniformly yellowish, tibiz 
without spurs. Wings almost hyaline, veins yellowish ; 
venation as in A. flava, Brun., except that Rs is more arched 
at the base. Halteres ochreous. 
Length of body 5°5 mm.; wing 6 mm. 
Arisan, 10, x. 1912 (1. Netobe), 1 2 - 
ERIOPTERINI. 
Gnophomyia orientalis, de Meij. 
Arisan, 10. x. 1912 (1. Nitobe), 1 ?. 
This speciés, which I think must be correctly named, 
agrees with G. nigrescens, Edw., in coloration and venation, 
* An African species recently described by Riedel as Letponeura jean- 
neli (vepresented in the British Museum) has small but distinct tibial 
spurs. 
