2 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



upon a brown patch, but the frontal wedges dull blackish in most 

 lights ; the eye margin, from the fronto-orbital bristle to the dull 

 blackish patch below the eye, is grey with a dull brown spot level 

 with the frontal margin. Face grey like the eye margins, with a dull 

 brown depression each side of the most prominent part at the middle. 

 Back of head greyish about the middle above and on a stripe from 

 about the middle of the side of head along lower half of eye margin 

 past the dull blackish patch below the eye to the mouth edge, but 

 brownish and with a row of minute bristles from the vertical bristles 

 round to the middle of the back part of eye, and brownish with a few 

 scattered bristles on the lower back part of jowls. Mouth-opening 

 large, labrum and palpi grey, back part of proboscis stout, strongly 

 chitinized and hairy, somewhat as in Parydra or Pelina. Antennae 

 grey with the third joint brownish, second joint with a weak spine 

 above pointing forwards, but without the bristle pointing upwards 

 and outwards so characteristic of all the rest of the Notiphilinae. 

 Arista minutely pectinate above and inconspicuously hairy beneath 

 about the base. Chaetotaxy : Two ocellar placed close together at 

 middle of ocellar triangle, the usual two vertical, one fronto-orbital 

 pointing forwards, one vibrissa placed level with lower angle of eye, 

 followed by four to five smaller bristles. 



Thorax and scutellum brownish, the former roughly rugose, some- 

 what as in Pelina cenea, and with grey patches, of which two large 

 ones in front are the beginning of indistinct stripes down the thorax, 

 and smaller ones on each side (one in front and one behind the suture), 

 form indistinct side stripes, in addition the humeri and notopleural 

 suture are greyish ; the upper part of pleurae is brownish, the lower 

 and hind part greyish ; scutellum flattened and somewhat square 

 shaped. Chaetotaxy : Two notopleural, one postalar, one dorso- 

 central right behind, four scutellar (the two basal ones placed well 

 on disc), one small mesopleural, the sternopleural reduced to a fine 

 hair ; in addition, the brown part of disc of thorax and the mesopleurae 

 bear scattered short bristles. 



Abdomen composed of five segments (of which the first two are 

 short), brownish black, smooth and shining, the punctuation very 

 fine, and the pubescence of short fine bristles, scattered ; genitalia 

 hidden beneath the last abdominal segment ; ventral abdominal 

 plates narrow, clothed with a few scattered hairs. 



Legs brownish black with paler tarsi ; front tarsi with the extreme 

 base of first and second joints yellowish, middle tarsi yellow with the 

 last one or two joints and the middle of the basal joint brown, hind 

 tarsi like the middle ones, but the darkening is rather more extensive, 

 and includes the middle of the other joints. Middle tibiae with 

 a short terminal spur beneath. 



Wings (fig. 1), in life, lapped over one another with the tips bent 

 down, closely following the contour of the abdomen ; they are strongly 

 veined, streaked with brown, and with a brown spot between the 

 cubital and discal veins ; radial vein short and with a curved veinlet 

 near the tip, as in some species of Parydra ; postical cross-vein 

 curved and acutely sloped outwards. Squamae blackish. Halteres 

 brown with yellow stems. 

 Length, 2-2-25 mm. 



