550 BANKS. 



two-thirds the lerigtii of tlie largei' on fore and mid tar.si ; the ungues of 

 the posterior tarsi simple and of aV)out tlie length of tiie tooth on the 

 unguis of the fore tarsi. 

 9 , unknown. 



Basilan Island, P. I. (R. C. McGregor, collector.) 

 Time of capture, 28 December 1906. 



' Type of i No. 6666 in Entomological Collection, Bureau of Science, 

 Manila, P. I. 



This species is dedicated to the collector. 



Wyeomyia nepenthicola, sp. nov. 



$ , length 4. .5 millimetei-s, length of wing ?i:i') millimeter^, length of 

 proboscis 2.5 millimeters. Very dark grey dorsally, silvery white ven- 

 trally, legs, antennte and pi'oboscis black or nearly so. 



Head clothed with blue-black, appressed scales ; underside and cheeks 

 white-scaled ; vertex somewhat lighter, a few erect forked scales on 

 occipital margin. Eyes black, margined with a row of white scales: a 

 w;hite line on vertex between eyes. Antennal segments black, with black 

 whorls and whitish bases; first segment subglobose, pale above; last two 

 segments fuscous; base of proboscis pale, especially beneath nearly white; 

 remainder bine-black; tip curved slightly downward, l^alpi black, very 

 short, one-ninth length of proboscis; three-jointed, the first joint very 

 small, subglobular, the second joint 4^ times as long, the third joint 

 one-half the length of the first, small, conical. C'lypeus liare, brown with 

 very slight dark line around margin. A small tuft of bristles projects 

 beneath base of proboscis. 



Prothoracic lobes black, shining, with slight gre}' pruinescence and a 

 few hairs. Mesonotum with blue-black, narrow scales and a slight pru- 

 inescence; anterior angles with an area of bluish-white scales sharply 

 defined. K few fuscous hairs at base of wings, together wdth a row of 

 bristles laterad, extending halfway to anterior margin. PleurK with 

 irregular patches of bluish-white scales defined by limits of sclerites. 

 Scutellum clad with fiat scales and numerous bristles on each lobe. Meta- 

 notum brown, a tuft of four bristles near posterior margin. 



Halteres cream-colored with white knobs. 



First abdominal segment brown-scaled dorsally, with goldeu bristles 

 laterally; second to seventh segments uniformly black-scaled with pale 

 brown apical hairs, eighth segment and genitalia bro'svn. A dorsal view 

 shows at either side a very narrow strip of white which represents the 

 white scales on the lateral margins of each tergite. Ventrum of abdomen 

 pure white, except eighth segment which is brov\'n as on dorsum. 



Wings hyaline; costa, subcosta and vein I heavily black-scaled; super- 

 numerary, mid cross vein and posterior cross vein are all in the same 

 line; forks of veins II and IV of nearly the same length, the first sub- 

 marginal being \-ery slightly longer and narrower than the second poste- 



