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Body slender. Eyes cmarginate. Ocelli none. Palpi short. An- 

 tenna slender, eleven-jointed. Thorax nearly elliptical. Wings pubes- 

 cent ; subcostal vein joining the costa at about four-fifths of the length 

 of the wing; radial short; cubital simple ; subapical forked much be- 

 yond the middle of the wing ; subanal simple ; anal complete. Abdo- 

 men oblanceolate. Legs slender, rather long, with no spines or spurs ; 

 metatarsi very long. Male. Antenna moniliform, verticillate-pilose. 

 Fern. Antenna submoniliform, pilose, short. 



1. carnea, Loew, Ent. Zeit. Stett. v. 324 (1844). Carnea, thorace 

 superne articulisque flagelli antennarum fuscis, abdominis maculis qua- 

 dratis pedibusque fuscescentibus. Long. 1 ; alar. 2 lin. 



Brown. Antennae black. Wings nearly limpid ; veins pale, black 

 towards the costa. Halteres whitish. Legs testaceous ; tarsi brown. 

 Fern. Abdomen testaceous beneath ; incisures testaceous. 



Rare. Not local. (E. S. I.) 



Genus XVII. CATOCHA. 



CATOCHA, Hal. E. M. i. 156 (1833). Macrostyla, Winn. Lestremia 

 p., Zett. 



Mas et Fcem. Caput parvum, subrotundum. Frons lata. Oculi ro- 

 tundi. Ocelli ires, frontales, magnates, in triangulum dispositi. An- 

 tenna porrectas, moniliformes ; articulus primus cyathiformis ; se- 

 cundus cupuliformis ; tertius et sequentes discreti. Thorax ovatus, 

 convexus. Scutellum magnum, semilunatum. Ala lata^, obtusae, 

 pubescentes, incumbentes, margine postico sat late ciliato ; vena cu- 

 bitalis et subanalis simplices. Halteres magni. Abdomen segmentis 

 8, gracile, cylindricum, apice acuminatum. Pedes longi, pubescentes, 

 spinis et calcaribus nullis. Mas. Antenna \$-articulata, articulis 

 giobosis remotis pilosis. Fcem. Antenna breviores, \Q-articulata, 

 articulis ovatis. 



Fern. Head small, nearly round. Front broad. Eyes lunate, nearly 

 meeting above. Ocelli three, on the front, of unequal size, the middle one 

 small, in advance of the others. Antennae porrect, moniliform ; first and 

 second joints cyathiform ; third and tenth elongate, oval ; the rest oval. 

 Thorax oval, convex. Scutellum large, semilunate. Wings broad, obtuse, 

 pubescent, with a rather broad fringe on the hind border ; subcostal 

 vein ending at about half the length of the wing ; cubital simple, ending 

 at hardly in front of the tip, springing-near the base of the wing from an 

 angle formed by two oblique veinlets ; subapical forked near its tip, its 

 fore fork ending at very little behind the tip of the wing ; subanal and 

 anal veins* extending to the border ; subanal simple. Halteres large. 

 Abdomen with eight segments, slender, cylindrical, acuminated at the 

 tip. Legs long, pubescent, with no spurs or spines. Male. Antenna 



