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9 . Head deep brown with slaty grey flat scales at the sides 

 and passing round the eyes, a few creamy ones in the middle in 

 front, a large median triangular patch of long thin curved 

 creamy scales and small black upright forked scales : chaetae 

 black, except two reddish-brown ones which project forwards 

 between the eyes ; eyes black and silvery ; palpi and long thin 

 proboscis black ; clypeus brown ; antennae deep brown with 

 testaceous basal segment. 



Thorax brown, showing some darker longitudinal lines, and 

 with scanty, small, narrow-curved, pale, dull golden scales and 

 black chaetae, some very long ones over the roots of the wings ; 

 scutellum brown and testaceous, with narrow-curved pale scales 

 and four brown chaetae to the mid lobe : metanotum rich 

 uniform brown ; pleurae brown and testaceous, some small flat 

 pale scales ; spiracle very large. 



Abdomen brown, the first two segments unhanded, third 

 showing traces of a basal pale band, fourth and fifth with basal 

 white bands, remainder unbandecl, lateral pale spots, the first 

 two pale grey, the others creamy yellow. 



Legs deep brown, unbanded ; ungues equal and simple. 



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

 longer and narrower than the second posterior, its base nearer 

 the base of the wing, its stem about half the length of the cell ; 

 stem of the second posterior about two-thirds the length of the 

 cell ; posterior cross-vein sloping backwards, twice its own length 

 distant from the mid ; halteres with dusky stem and fuscous 

 knob. 



Length. — 2 mm. 



Habitat. — Peradeniya, Ceylon (E. E. Green). 



Time of capture. — February. 



Observations. — A very small species, easily told by its size 

 and abdominal ornamentation. The scutellum, having only four 

 border-bristles to the mid lobe, gives it the facies of an Aedine, 

 but it resembles in all other details Culiciomyia. 



CULICIOMYIA CEYLONICA. n. Sp. 



Head large, black. Thorax pale dusky reddish-brown, with 

 two parallel darker lines. Abdomen black, unbanded. Legs 

 biown, unbanded. Fork-cells of equal length, base of first fork- 

 oell nearer apex of wing than that of the second. Male palpi 

 deep brown, unbanded ; abdomen with false pale basal banding. 



