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mostly yellowish brown. Claws moderately heavy, strongly curved, 

 simple, the pulvilli as long as the claws. Genitalia; basal clasp seg- 

 ment stout, long and produced to form a conspicuous roundly tri- 

 angular apical process ; terminal clasp segment subapical, short, stout, 

 with a length less than the appendage of the basal clasp segment and 

 the transverse apex with a heavy, chitinous pectination; dorsal plate 

 broad, deeply and triangularly emarginate, the lobes tapering to a 

 narrowly rounded apex; ventral plate short, broad, tapering to 



a broad, round emargination. 

 Harpes short, stout, irregularly 

 rounded apically; style longer, 

 stout, obtuse. 



Female. — Length, 2.75 mm. 

 Antennae nearly as long as the 

 body, dark brown; 14 segments, 

 the fifth with a length 3J times its 

 diameter and with somewhat 

 coarser reticulate circumfili, there 

 being approximately 12 irregular, 

 transverse fill to a segment; the 

 fig. i2.-side view of the apex of the female terminal segment with a length 



ABDOMEN OF EOCINCTICOENIA AUSTEALASIAE. 1 . 7 ,. 



three times its diameter, the apex 

 narrowly rounded. Mesonotum dark brown, almost black. Scutellum 

 dark yellowish brown, postscutellum fuscous. Abdomen dark yellow- 

 ish brown. Halteres yellowish brown. Coxae dark brown. Ovipos- 

 itor short ; terminal lobes fleshy, roundly quadrate and thickly setose. 

 Other characters practically as in the male. Type Cecid. 1538. 

 Type.— Cat, No. 18491, U.S.N.M. 



EOHORMOMYIA, new genus. 



The quadri articulate palpi, the simple fifth vein and claws, the 

 latter with well-developed pulvilli, indicate a relationship with the 

 Formosan Ccelodiplosis Kieffer, though it is easily distinguished there- 

 from by the great reduction rather than production of the palpal seg- 

 ments and the less specialized wings and the cross-vein wanting or at 

 most rudimentary. The third vein unites with the margin well beyond 

 the apex of the wing. The male of this African form will doubtless 

 approach, in certain characters, those given for Ccdodiplosis , though it 

 is hardly possible that they can be referred to the same genus. 



Type of the genus. — Eohormomyia Jiowardi, new species. 



EOHORMOMYIA HOWARDI, new species. 



The large, strikingly marked female described below was collected 

 by Mr. C. W. Howard and labeled: " Along river, Umbelusi, 5-3-09, 

 Lorenzo Marquez." The striking characteristics of this insect should 

 render its identification comparatively easy. 



