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2. Melanoconion pallidiceps n. sp. 
Head silvery-grey, dark behind ; palpi of and proboscis brown. 
Thorax brown with two dark median lines in front and a dark patch on 
each side behind, with small bronzy scales ; pleuræ testaceous. 
Abdomen deep brown, venter with creamy scales. Legs brown with 
bronzy reflections, coxæ and venter of femora grey. 
cf. Head deep brown with pale narrow-curved scales, and flat pale 
scales at the sides and numerous black upright forked scales, most dense 
behind; palpi deep brown, longer than the proboscis, the two apical 
joints nearly equal, both with black hairs on each side ; proboscis deep 
brown, swelling apically; antennæ brown with flaxen-brown plumes. 
Thorax brown to slaty grey with two broad deep brown lines in front 
and a large brown patch on each side behind over the roots of the wings, 
with small scattered pale golden to bronzy scales ; scutellum brown with 
narrow-curved pale scales ; metanotum deep brown ; pleuræ ochreous 
brown. 
Abdomen brown, with deep brown scales, unbanded, hairy, hairs 
blackish ; genitalia ochreous, with yellowish hairs ; venter with traces of 
basal pale bands. Legs brown, unbanded, with ochreous reflections, coxæ 
ochreous, venter of femora pale creamy ; fore and mid ungues unequal 
and uniserrated, the hind equal and simple. 
Wings with the fork-cells short, the first submarginal a little longer 
and much narrower than the second posterior, its stem as long as the 
cell, its base slightly nearer the apex of the wing, stem of the second 
posterior as long as the cell ; posterior cross-vein sloping backwards, 
about twice its own length distant from the mid, the mid and super¬ 
numerary nearly in a straight line. Halteres with pale brown stem and 
fuscous knob. 
Length: 4 mm. 
Habitat: Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen, New Guinea (Biró, 1900). 
Time of capture : December the twenty-seventh. 
Observations : Easily told by the white scaled head and thoracic 
ornamentation on the integument. 
