Genus Lophoceratomyia. 



475 



almost hair-like 

 metano- 



scutellum 



brown narrow-curved scales, some 

 paler brown, with the same scales ; 

 turn brown ; pleurae pale brown. 



Abdomen black, narrow, no trace of 

 banding or lateral spots. 



Legs brown, unbanded, bases pale ochreous 

 and femora also pale beneath ; the mid femora 

 rather swollen, distinct apical tibial spines 

 on the fore and mid legs. 



Ungues equal and simple. 



Wings with the costa, sub-costal and first 

 long veins densely scaled, with short, rather 

 large broad scales, the costal border with 

 large spine-like scales ; branches of the second 

 also with rather broad, short scales, longer 

 and narrower ones on the third and fourth 

 long veins, considerably longer on the fifth 

 and sixth ; fringe scales of two series, rather 

 large and acuminate, border-scales prominent, 

 projecting outwards ; first sub-marginal cell longer and narrower 

 than the second posterior cell, its stem half the length of the cell, 

 its base very slightly nearer the base of the wing ; stem of the 



Fig. 208. 



Female (c) and male (a) 



palp of L. fraudatrix ; 



b, basal organ of tf palp. 



Fig. 209. 

 Wing of Lophoceratomyia fraudatrix. 



Theobald. 



second posterior cell nearly as long as the cell ; posterior cross- 

 vein about twice its own length distant from the mid cross-vein ; 

 a very distinct pseudo-vein between the fifth and sixth veins. 

 Hal teres pale, with faintly fuscous knob. 



Length, — 2*5 to 3 mm. 



<£ . Palpi and proboscis brown ; antennae banded black and 

 grey, with brown verticillate hairs and black tuft-organs. Thorax 

 and abdomen as in the ? . 



Wings with the fork-cells very short, the first sub-marginal 

 longer and narrower than the second posterior, its stem rather 

 more than two-thirds the length of the cell, its base nearer the 



