Genus Gnophodeoinyia. 251 



Legs black banded with white as follows : — fore legs with 

 a narrow apical tibial spot and a trace of a pale basal band to 

 second tarsal ; mid legs with an apical white femoral and tibial 

 spot, first tarsal white with a black band on its basal half, a 

 broad white band on base of second tarsal ; hind legs with the 

 basal two-thirds of femora white, an apical white spot \ first 

 tarsal with basal and apical white bands, base of second tarsal 

 white, a very narrow basal band to the third tarsal ; fore and 

 mid femora bristly and all the tibiae bristly, bristles black ; 

 fore and mid ungues uniserrated, hind simple, all equal. 



Length. — 5 * 5 mm. 



$ . Thorax as in the $ ; palpi black, the two last segments 

 short, the apical one the smaller, both with short hair-tufts. 

 Antennae with deep brown plume-hairs. Abdomen with the 

 basal lateral spots nearly united to form basal bands ; basal lobes 

 of genitalia large and covered with black and creamy scales, 

 claspers thin testaceous at base, black at the apex. Legs as in 

 the 9 ') f° re ungues unequal, the larger uniserrated (the 

 smaller ?) ; mid unequal and uniserrated, hind equal and simple. 



Length. — 5*5 mm. 



Habitat. — Bombay (Capt. James, I.M.S.). 



Time of capture. — August (19. 8. 02). 



Observations.— Described from two perfect specimens sent me 

 some time ago by Captain James, I.M.S. It is a very marked 

 species told at once by the leg banding and the prominent solid 

 white W-shaped area on the mesonotum. 



It presents a slight difference to the type of Danielsia in that 

 there are spindle shaped scales around the eyes, these I could not 

 detect in the type species albotaeniata (mihi) from Malay, they 

 may easily be overlooked, however. The scutellar scales are 

 rather broad for narrow-curved scales, but they more nearly 

 approach that type than the spindle shaped form. 



Genus GNOPHODEOMYIA. Theobald. 

 Journ. Econ. Biol. Vol. L, No. 1, p. 21 (1905). 



Head clothed with flat scales, rounded apically, with a band 

 of a few narrow-curved scales behind and numerous upright 

 forked scales. Palpi of female rather short, the penultimate 

 segment longer than the basal ones, apical segment minute, 



