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Abdomen Mack, unbanded with golden border-bristles ; 

 venter with broad basal creamy bands. 



Legs brown, the front pair uniform, the mid and the hind 

 with the apices of the femora and tibiae pure silvery-white ; fore 

 and mid ungues equal, uniser rated, hind equal and simple. 



Wings with the fork-cells nearly equal in size, the first sub- 

 marginal slightly longer than the second posterior cell, its stem 

 about two-thirds the length of the cell, about the same length as 

 that of the second posterior cell, the stem of which is about two- 



Fig. 80. 

 Wing of Reedomyia alboscutella. 9 . Theobald. 



thirds the length of the cell ; bases of the cells nearly level, that 

 of the first sub-marginal if anything slightly nearer the apex of 

 the wing ; posterior cross-vein about its own length distant from 

 the mid, Halteres with dull stem and fuscous knob. 



Length. — 4 to 4 * 5 mm. 



Habitat. — New Guinea, Simbang, Huon Gulf (Biro), 1898, 

 and Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen (Biro), 1900. 



Observations. — Described from two $? 's. It is a very distinct 

 species easily told by the silvery-white scaled scutellum and the 

 two silvery- white apical spots on the mid and hind femora and 

 tibiae. The cephalic scales in one specimen are much brighter 

 golden colour than in the type, which is in the National Museum 

 of Hungary. 



Keedomyia albopunctata. n. sp. 



Head greyish-brown in the middle, with a black and white 

 patch at the sides. Proboscis unbanded. Thorax with rich 

 brown scales with six white puncta, the two anterior nearer 

 together than the second pair ; scutellum white scaled, duller 

 scales in the middle. Legs with prominent basal white bands, 

 last hind tarsal white. 



9 . Head brown, clothed in the middle with narrow-curved 



