Genus Culiciomy ia . 2 3 < 



9 . Head large, black, clothed with flat dull pale violet 

 scales, a few creamy ones around the eyes and a triangular basal 

 median area of scanty dull creamy very small narrow-curved 

 ones, brown upright forked scales and bright brown inwardly 

 projecting chaetae in front ; clypeus ochreous ; palpi ochreous 

 at base, deep brown scales elsewhere ; proboscis deep brown : 

 antennae brown, basal segment and base of second segment 

 ochreous. 



Thorax pale dusky reddish-brown, with pale narrow-curved 

 scales and brown chaetae. In some lights it shows two median 

 parallel darker lines ; the scales become paler posteriorly and 

 pass on to the pale scutellum, which has golden-brown posterior 

 border-bristles, six to the mid lobe ; metanotum chestnut-brown. 



Abdomen deep brown, unhanded, some of the scales showing 

 deep violet reflections and some paler scales laterally, border- 

 bristles pallid. 



Legs brown, unhanded, femora paler ventrally ; femora and 

 tibiae spiny, also the first tarsals : apex of femora and tibiae 

 swollen ; ungues equal and simple, small. 



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

 narrower but very little longer than the second posterior cell, 

 its base nearer the apex of the wing than that of the second 



Fig. 70. 

 Wing of Culiciomyia ceylonica. ?. n. sp. 



posterior cell, its stem not quite so long as the cell ; stem of the 

 second posterior also not quite so long as the cell ; posterior cross- 

 vein longer than the mid, not quite twice its own length distant 

 from it. 



Length. — 3 mm. 



<J . Head and thorax as in the ? . Abdomen narrow, the 

 last few apical segments showing traces of paler basal scales, 

 scarcely forming bands, however ; hairs brown. 



Palpi deep brown, acuminate, the apical segment longer than 

 the penultimate, both with longish brown hairs, no trace of 



