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peculiarities are the long deflection of R 4+5 which is approxi- 

 mately as long as Rs and the position of the basal deflection 

 of Cu x which is far before the fork of M. Taseocera Skuse is 

 well distinguished by the extreme brevity of vein 2d A. 

 Taiwanomyia fragilicornis (Riedel). 



Taseocera fragilicomis Riedel Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 82 

 Jahrg., Abt. A, 5 Heft (1916) 112, 113. 



Riedel had only a single male. I have before me seven fe- 

 males from Kuraru, Formosa, August 30 to September 5, 1921, 

 collected by Teiso Esaki, one of which is here designated as 

 allotypic. 



Allotype, female, length, 4 millimeters ; wing, 3.9 to 4. Differs 

 from the description of the male as follows: 



Basal segment of the scape brownish black, the second seg- 

 ment conspicuously cream-yellow; antennae shorter, the flagel- 

 lar segments elongate-cylindrical with short verticils. Pleura 

 brown with a narrow, blackish, longitudinal stripe. Legs with 

 the coxae and trochanters dark brown; femora light brown, 

 gradually passing into dark brown, the extreme tips pale; tibiae 

 brown, the tips narrowly darkened, the extreme bases white; 

 tarsi pale brown. Wings grayish subhy aline, heavily spotted 

 and clouded with brown, there being from five to eight larger 

 areas in cell C, the more-conspicuous ones extending caudad 

 into cell Sc. Vein Sc long, Sc, ending about opposite three- 

 fourths the length of the deflection of R 4+5 , Sc 2 about one- 

 third Sc x ; r about twice its length from the tip of R, ; cell 1st 

 M 2 narrow at the proximal end which is only about one-half 

 as long as r-m; m about one-third to one-fourth the outer 

 deflection of M, ; cell 1st M 2 approximately as long as the long- 

 est vein issuing from it (M 1+2 ) ; cell Cu, very deep, due to 

 the basal recession of the deflection of Cu^ 



Allotype, female, Kuraru, Formosa, September 1, 1921 (T. 

 Esaki). 



Iimnophila illustris sp. nov. 



Related to L. ochracea Meigen; mesonotal praescutum pale 

 brown with three yellowish brown stripes ; thoracic pleura with 

 a narrow, dark brown, longitudinal stripe ; wings with a strong 

 brownish tinge; anterior arculus nearly atrophied; abdominal 

 sternites yellow, ringed with dark brown. 



Female.— Length, 7 millimeters; wing, 7.6. Rostrum and 

 palpi brown. Antennae rather elongate, if bent backward at- 



