272 31 1. J. K. Mallocli on Exotic Muscariilae. 



Gemis Metopomyia, nov. 



Generic charnciers. — Kclated to Helina, R.-D. Differs in 

 having the i)tcro[)lciira liairy, and the ventral surface of the 

 scutellum with tine sparse hairs as in Antlioinyiin£e. The 

 hind tibia has no calcur, but there are one or two short 

 bristles on the postero-dorsal surface. The wing-veins are 

 bare and the fourth vein is not curved forward at apex. The 

 prostcrnum and propleiira are bare, the prealar bristle is 

 long, there are no strong presutural acrostichals present, 

 the eyes are l)are in both sexes, and the frons is as in typical 

 species of Helina. 



Genotype, the following species. 



Metupomyiu atrupunctipe^, sp, n. 



Male and female. — Shining testaceous yellow. Antcnnaj 

 brownish, third segment black ; palpi brownish yellow, 

 fuscous apically. Dorsum of thorax with two faint reddish 

 vittse, a small blackish spot above the propleural bristle, and 

 a fuscous strtak from humeral angle to base of wings which 

 extends narrowly on to dorsum and more broadly over 

 pleura. First tergite (sec.ver.) with a large fuscous spot on 

 each side, third and fourth largely iufuscated in male, less 

 noticeably so in female. Apices of femora with a broad, 

 sharply defined, black band, apices of tibia; less deeply in- 

 fuscatcd, their bases more or less browned ; tarsi fuscous. 

 "Wings clear, extreme base of cosia, humeral cross-vein, first 

 vein opposite humeral, and the base of third vein brown or 

 fuscous. Calyptra? and halteres yellowish. 



Male. — Narrowest part of frons about equal in width to 

 anterior ocellus, the silvery orbits contiguous at middle ; 

 ])arafaeial narrower than third antennal segment ; cheek 

 fully twice as high as width of third antennal segment ; 

 vibrissal angle produced well beyond base of antenna;, a few 

 setuUe above vibris>i€ ; longest hairs on arista subequal in 

 length to widtli of third antennal segment. Thorax with 

 four pairs of postsutural dorso-eentrals. Al)domen ovate ; 

 sides of first tergite at blackened area with rather dense, 

 moderately long, black bristles ; fifth sternite with a broad, 

 shallow, rounded posterior emargination. Legs slender; 

 fore tiljia unarmed at middle; fore tarsi slender, longer than 

 fore tibia?, basal segment without long, slender, erect, sensory 

 hairs ; miti-femur with a series of fine erect hairs on basal 

 half or more of postero-vcntral surface ; mid-tibia with two 



