Genus Lepidotomyia. 249 



space in front of the scutellum ; scutellum brown with narrow- 

 curved pale scales and deep brown border-bristles ; metanotum 

 deep brown ; pleurae brown with some grey patches. 



Abdomen deep blackish-brown with small basal white lateral 

 spots ; venter black scaled. 



Legs deep brown, unhanded ; fore and mid ungues unequal, 

 the larger uniserrate, the smaller (?) ; hind 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 one-third the length of the 

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

 the cell ; posterior cross- vein about one and a half times its own 

 length distant from the mid ; scales on the branches of the 

 second, third and fourth veins rather thick and clavate. 



Length. — 4 mm. 



Habitat. — Sto. Amaro, Brazil (Dr. Lutz). 



Time of capture. — November. 



Observations. — Described from a single perfect <£ given me by 

 Dr. Lutz. It very much resembles a Melanoconion at first sight, 

 but can at once be told by the flat head scales. 



There is no ornamentation save the small white basal lateral 

 abdominal spots. 



Genus LEPIDOTOMYIA. Theobald. 



Gen. Ins. Fam. Culicid., p. 22 (1905), not Lepidotomyia, Theo. Ann. Mus. 

 Nat. Hung. III., p. 80, 1905. 



Head with flat scales all over except around the eyes where 

 they are almost spindle-shaped and some narrow-curved ones 

 behind, also upright forked scales. Scutellum with narrow- 

 curved scales only. Palpi of the female rather long, scaly, those 

 of the male with short hair-tufts. Fork-cells short. Proboscis 

 short, not more than half the length of the body. 



This genus comes very near Danielsia, Theobald, but the 

 narrow spindle-shaped scales around the eyes and shorter proboscis 

 separate it. 



A single large species only is known. 



This is not the same as Lepidotomyia mentioned in the 

 Catalogue of Gnlicidae in the National Museum of Hungary, 

 which referred to Beedomyia, Ludlow. 



