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FEED. Y. THEOBALD 
1. Lophoceratomyia fraudatrix n. sp. 
Head black, with a pale triangular median frontal area. Thorax 
brown. Abdomen black, unbanded. Legs uniformly brown, paler at the 
base. Wings unspotted, veins and 
scales brown with slight ochreous 
tinge. Male with rich deep brown 
antennal hairs and black tuft-organs. 
? . Head black with some small 
narrow-curved pale and dull golden 
scales in front, sides with dull creamy 
small flat scales, the same but grey, 
forming a line around the eyes ; pro¬ 
boscis brown ; palpi brown ; antennæ 
brown, basal joint black. Thorax 
brown with very small and small 
scattered pale dull brown narrow- 
curved scales, some almost hair-like ; 
scut ellum paler brown with the same 
scales ; metanotum brown ; pleuræ 
pale brown. Abdomen black, narrow, 
no trace of banding or lateral spots. 
Legs brown, unbanded, bases pale 
ochreous and venter of femora also 
pale ; the mid femora rather swol¬ 
len, distinct apical tibial spines on 
the fore and mid legs. Ungues equal 
and simple. Wings (Plate I) with the 
costa, subcostal and first long-vein 
densely scaled with short, rather 
large broad scales ; the costal border 
with large spine-like scales ; bran¬ 
ches 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 submarginal cell longer and 
narrower than the second posterior cell, its stem half the length of the 
cell, its base very slighthly nearer the base of the wing; stem of the 
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 
Fig. 7. Lophoceratomyia fraudatrix n. 
sp. — a male palp ; b basal process ; 
c female palp. 
