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posterior cell, its base nearer the base of the wing than that of 

 the second posterior cell ; its stem from one-fourth to one-third the 

 length of the cell ; stem of the second posterior not quite as long 

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

 own length distant from the mid cross-vein which unites with 



Fig. 75. 

 Wing of Gnophodeomyia inomata. 9 . Theobald. 



the supernumerary ; scales on the first longitudinal, and on the 

 branches of the second and fourth and on the third, rather broad 

 and dense, some long lateral narrow ones on the base of the 

 second, fourth and upper branch of the fifth. Halteres with 

 pale stems and black knobs. 



Length. — 4 mm. 



Habitat. — New Amsterdam (Dr. Rowland). 



Time of capture. — July. 



Observations. — Described from three females. One taken in 

 a house in the morning, the others bred from larvae found in a 

 hollow tree trunk at the side of a pond in Stanley Town, New 

 Amsterdam. 



Two specimens show the head scales darker than in the type. 



Genus PROTOMACLEAYA. Nov. gen. 



Head clothed with narrow-curved scales over most of the 

 surface as in Culex, numerous upright forked scales behind and 

 small flat lateral ones ; palpi short in 9 \ long in $ , rather thin 

 in the former sex. Mesonotum with narrow-curved scales ; 

 scutellum with small flat scales to the mid lobe, narrow-curved 

 ones to the lateral lobes. 



Wings densely scaled, the lateral vein scales straight, rather 



