196 THE KNTOMOLOOIST. 



The head is yellow at the sides. The pupae are large and nearly 

 black. I have not been able to induce imagines, newly escaped, 

 to bite. 



T^NTORHYNCHUS AGER, Sp. n. 



Wings unspotted. Tarsal joints deep brown, with ochreous bands 

 at base and apex, so that two joints combine to form rings at the 

 articulations. Thorax unadorned, black, covered with mingled black 

 and golden scales. Abdominal segments black, with distal ochreous 

 bands. Proboscis black, with two ochreous bands at the tip and in 

 the middle. 



? . Head black, with scattered golden scales. Antennae dark 

 brown, with a minute yellowish ring round the insertion of the second 

 joint, which latter is no longer than the succeeding joints. Proboscis 

 deep brown, with a broad sharply defined ochreous band in the middle 

 of its length, and a second narrower one at its tip. Palpi about one- 

 fifth the length of the proboscis, black, with a minute yellowish tip. 

 Thorax black, covered with a shaggy tomentum of mingled black and 

 golden scales ; there are three groups of bristles on the posterior 

 border of the scutellum, but they are only of moderate lengths. 

 Wings hyaline, the veins clothed with alternatively black and yellow 

 scales. Axillary vein joining the costa a little internal to tip of 

 anterior branch of fifth longitudinal, while latter is opposite the base 

 of the anterior fork-cell. Supernumerary and middle transverse 

 veins joining at an open angle, and placed rather more than the 

 length of either external to the posterior transverse, all three being 

 of about equal lengths ; the two fork-cells are of about equal width, 

 but the anterior is much the longer, its stem being slightly shorter 

 than that of the posterior, and less than a third the length of the cell. 

 Legs dark coloured, clothed with a mixture of black and golden scales, 

 the former preponderating except on the under surface of the femora ; 

 ta,rsi nearly black, with nan-ow ochreous bands at base and apex of the 

 joints, which, combining, form five more or less distinct rings, placed 

 on the articulations with the exception of the uppermost ring, into the 

 formation of which the tibise do not enter. There are also more or 

 less distinct ochreous knee spots. Abdomen nearly black, the seg- 

 ments having distinct ochreous bands on their hinder borders, broader 

 laterally than in the middle, so that the dark portions form a series of 

 lunate spots, the yellow bands almost combining laterally ; there are 

 seven distinct bands, the last visible segment being entirely yellow. 

 Length of wing 4 mm. 



Hab. Travancore, Madras Presidency. 



CORETHRA ASIATICA, Sp. D. 



A single female was taken on the wall of my dining-room at 

 Shahjahanpur, N. W. P., under a lighted lamp. It is a minute but 

 proportionally stoutly-built gnat. From the configuration of the wing 

 I should have been inclined to place it in Mochlonyx, but the first 

 tarsal joint, although barely half length of tibia, is longer than the 

 second tarsal. Hence I place it in Corethra, 



It is uniformly pale straw-colour throughout. Very hirsute. Body 



