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all three lobes densely covered toith broad flat icliite scales; six 

 large bristles on the mid lobe. 



Abdomen light, covered with flat brown scales and many 

 golden apical hairs, with now and then a suggestion of narrow 

 white basal bands, and with distinct white basal lateral spots ; 

 venter partly white scaled, but with brown apical bands. 



Legs, with white scaled coxae ; femora pale at base, rest 

 brown scaled dorsally, pale ventrally, a brilliant white apical 

 spot ; tarsi brown. The legs are rather prominently pale bristled 

 throughout, which even suggest, with a hand lens, light spots on 

 the hind tibiae ; fore ungues large, equal, uniserrated. 



Wings clear yellowish, covered with dark brown scales, except 

 a small spot at the very base of the costa, which is brilliant 

 white. Fork-cells short ; scales rather broad and truncated, 

 costal edge shows some tendency to the spinose scales seen in 

 Uranotaenia ; first sub-marginal about one-sixth longer, and the 

 same width as the second posterior cell, the stems of each about 

 the same length, and about two-thirds as long as the cells ; mid 

 and supernumerary cross-veins meet, and are nearly equal, 

 posterior cross-vein a little shorter and distant twice its own 

 length from the mid. 



Halteres light with dark knob. 



Length — 4 to 5 mm. 



Habitat. — Angeles, Pampanga, Luzon, Philippine Islands. 



Time of capture. — September. 



Observations. — Miss Ludlow described this species as a new 

 genus which is very distinct. The specimens were sent her by 

 Dr. Eugene R. Whitmore, marked " Caught in the woods and in 

 the quarters." 



Reedomyia niveoscutella. Theobald (1905). 

 Journ. Econ. Biol., Vol. I., No. 1, p. 22 (1905). ? . 



Head ochreous brown ; proboscis fawn coloured, dusky at the 

 tip. Thorax with dull golden scales with two dull brown median 

 bare lines ; scutellum with flat silvery-white scales looking like 

 three silvery spots ; pleurae pallid with three patches of white 

 scales. Abdomen deep brown with indistinct basal grey bands. 

 Legs unbanded. 



5 . Head ochreous brown, clothed with pale creamy narrow 

 curved scales, paler around the eyes, with narrow ochreous 



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