Genus Culiciomyia. 231 



Thorax deep brown with narrow-curved dull golden-brown 

 scales, golden chaetae in front, brown elsewhere ; scutellum pale 

 brown with narrow-curved pale scales and seven brown border- 

 bristles to the mid lobe; metanotum pale brown; pleurae grey, 

 with a prominent round black spot beneath the base of the 

 wings. 



Abdomen brown, the segments with narrow apical and 

 broad basal yellow bands ; posterior border-bristles pale ; venter 

 yellow. 



Legs brown, unhanded, femora pale at base and beneath ; 

 ungues small, equal and simple. 



Wings with rather short fork-cells ; the first sub-marginal 

 longer and narrower than the second posterior, its stem more 

 than half the length of the cell ; stem of the second posterior 



Fig. 64. 

 Wing of Culiciomyia annulata. 9 . n. sp. 



cell about two-thirds the length of the cell, its base about level 

 with that of the first fork-cell ; posterior cross-vein longer than 

 the mid, about twice its own length distant from it ; halteres 

 pale, but with slightly dusky knob. 



Length. — 4 to 4*5 mm. 



$ . Head much as in the J , but with denser upright forked 

 scales, dark behind and ochreous in front ; palpi pale brown 

 acuminate, hair-tufts pale brown. 



Thorax as in the 9 . The abdominal bands much wider, the 

 apical portion being narrow, the basal very wide, often extending 

 more than half across the segments. Fore and mid ungues 

 unequal, uniserrate, hind equal and simple. 



Wings with the first sub-marginal cell longer and slightly 

 narrower than the second posterior cell, their bases nearly level, 

 stem of the first sub-marginal about two-thirds the length of the 

 cell ; stem of the second posterior cell about three-fourths the 

 length of the cell ; posterior cross-vein longer than the mid, about 

 its own length distant from it. 



