224 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 'iT 



Endaphis hirta n. sp. (Dipt.). 



By E. p. Felt, Albany, N. Y. 

 The species described below was reared by Mr. E. E. Green 

 in June, 1894, from a Dactylopius on Mimusops hexandra, Tan- 

 galla, Ceylon, and transmitted to Dr. L. O. Howard, through 

 whose courtesy we are permitted to describe it, under date of 

 December 3, 1895. The form is so unique that we feel justi- 

 fied in describing it though the specimen is in poor condition. 



Male. — Length 1.5 mm. Antennae as long as the body, thickly haired, 

 light fuscous yellowish, yellowish basally; 14 segments, the first broad- 

 ly obconic, somewhat excavated and with a slight tooth dorsally, the 

 second short, subhemispheric, the third slightly fused with the fourth, 

 the fifth binodose, the basal portion of the stem with a length a little 

 greater than its diameter, the distal part with a length twice its 

 diameter ; basal enlargement a very oblate spheroid ; the subbasal 

 whorl very thick, the setfe long, stout and almost approximate basally; 

 the circumfili stout, the loops numerous and extending nearly to the 

 base of the practically identical distal enlargement; terminal segment 

 having the basal enlargement subglobose, the basal portion of the 

 stem with a length nearly twice its diameter, the distal enlargement 

 slightly produced, with a length about 5-^ its diameter and with a short, 

 stout apical appendage. Palpi yellowish, the first segment subrectan- 

 gular, the second narrowly oval, the third a little Jonger and more 

 slender, the fourth as long as the third, somewhat dilated. Mesonotum 

 fuscous yellowish. Scutellum and postscutellum yellowish. Abdomen 

 fuscous yellowish. Wings thickly clothed with long, scale-like hairs. 

 Costa yellowish brown, subcosta uniting therewith near the basal 

 third, the third vein well before the apex. Halteres yellowish trans- 

 parent, fuscous apically. Coxje yellowish, femora fuscous yellowish, 

 tibiae and tarsi mostly fuscous. Claws very strongly curved, probably 

 simple, the pulvilli not visible in the preparation. Genitalia wanting. 



Type in the United States National Museum. 



This species is easily differentiated from all other forms 

 known to the writer by the extremely thick sub-basal whorl of 

 long, stout setae on the enlargements of the flagellate seg- 

 ments. These setae are so numerous as to be almost approxi- 

 mate basally and arranged in a practically straight row. 



Dr. Samuel H. Scudder has been elected a foreign member of the 

 Zoological Society of London. 



