Genus Trickopronomyia. 48 1 



third vein continued as a distinct pseudo-vein to the base of the 

 wing, another pseudo-vein between the fifth and sixth ; scales on 

 the branches of the fork-cells and the apex of the first long vein 

 TaeniorJiynchus-like, others smaller, except on the sub-costal and 

 basal half of the first long vein where some are similar in form to 

 Mansonia scales but smaller. 



Halteres with pale stem and black knob. 



Length. — 5 ' 5 mm. 



Habitat. — Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen, New Guinea (Biro, 1900). 



Observations. — Described from a single $ . It is a very 

 marked species told at once by the hairy proboscis. From the 

 following species it can be told by the banded abdomen. 



Type in the National Museum, Budapest. 



Trichopronomyia microannulata. n. sp. 



Head brown, pale scaled ; proboscis with pale band. Thorax 

 deep fawn-coloured with bright brown scales, two median bare 

 paler lines which converge posteriorly, a curved one on each side, 

 in front of wings. Abdomen deep brown with basal yellow spots 

 to the segments. Front and mid legs brown, unbanded, hind with 

 faint banding involving both sides of joints. 



^ . Head brown with narrow-curved pale scales, pale upright 

 forked scales in the middle, dark at the sides, flat creamy-white 

 lateral scales, a line of small ones spread partly around the eye 

 borders ; proboscis deep brown, enlarged on the apical half, a 

 narrow pale band on the apical half, below which are longish hairs 

 on each side decreasing in size to the base. Palpi brown, deep 

 blackish apically, acuminate, the apical segment longer than the 



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Fig-. 215. 



Squamose cephalic adornment of Trichopronomyia 



microannulata. Theobald. 



penultimate, hair-tufts on the last two and apex of the ante- 

 penultimate black ; the dark apical portion shows deep violet 

 reflections. 



Thorax brown, adorned with scanty narrow-curved bright 

 golden-brown scales, the denuded surface shows darker and paler 



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