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level with that of the second posterior, its stem more than half 

 the length of the cell ; stem of the second posterior rather more 

 than two-thirds the length of the cell ; posterior cross-vein 

 rather longer than the mid, about two and a half times its own 



Fig. 62. 

 Wing of Culiciomyia inornate. ?. Theobald. 



length distant from it ; the lateral vein scales, especially towards 

 the apical half of the wing, dense and large, somewhat of 

 Taeniorhynchus form. 



Halteres with pale stem and fuscous knob. 



Length. — 4 • 5 to 5*5 mm. 



<£ . Palpi brown, acuminate, last two segments with scanty 

 brown hair-tufts, a nude band towards the base appearing as a 

 pale band ; antennae with brown plume-hairs and long grey to 

 white internodes. 



Thorax, abdomen and legs as in the J . 



Ungues of fore and mid legs unequal, the larger with a long 

 tooth, the smaller with a small acute basal tooth, hind ones equal 

 and simple. 



Wings scaled as in } , but the scales fewer and rather 

 shorter ; first sub-marginal cell a little longer and somewhat 

 narrower than the second posterior cell, its base slightly nearer 

 the apex of the wing, its stem as long as the cell, stem of the 

 second posterior longer than the cell which is widest at the 

 border of the wing ; posterior cross- vein longer than the mid, and 

 about two and a half times its own length distant from it. The 

 apical segment of palp about one and three-fourths longer than 

 the penultimate. 



Male genitalia very marked, the clasper arises from a 

 prominence on the basal lobe, and is much contorted and spinose 

 above one edge, and ends in a hook, the terminal segment is very 

 thin and comes off laterally from the base of the hook, on the 

 prominence arising from the basal lobe before the origin of the 



