552 
CHARLES T. BRUES. 
Two specimens from Takao, April 12, 1907, and Tainan, Feb¬ 
ruary 1909. 
Aphiochæta curva n. sp. (Fig. 14) 
Female. Length 1*7 mm. Thorax brown, legs yellowish, the head 
and abdomen black and the wings faintly yellowish brown. Front a little 
broader than high, with a distinct median line and an unusually pro¬ 
minent ocellar tubercle ; its surface subshining and sparsely hairy and 
its bristles very long and stout. Lower margin of front at the middle 
with two large proclinate bristles and a second pair below them of very 
small size, scarcely visible ; next row above forming a pair at each side 
of the lower margin of the front, both very close to the margin and 
the outer one almost touching the eye ; middle row of four equidistant 
bristles, forming a line strongly curved downwards medially, the lateral 
bristle close to the eye ; ocellar row normal, its bristles very large. 
Antennæ small, nearly round, 
not very deeply sunk into the 
facial cavity. Palpi small, yel¬ 
low;, beset below w r ith nume¬ 
rous bristles of moderately 
large size. Cheeks each with 
two stout downwardly directed 
Fig. 14. Aphiochaeta curva , wing. bristles. Mesonotum reddish 
brown, shining, clothed with 
soft brown hairs ; one pair of dorsocentral macrochætæ. Scutellum deep 
yellow, twice as broad as long, with two marginal bristles. Pleuræ piceous, 
the mesopleura bare above ; propleura with two weak bristles just above 
the fore coxa. Abdomen dall black, none of the segments elongated; bea¬ 
ring a few erect microscopic bristles which become more numerous and 
recumbent apically, sides of the second segment not bristly. Genitalia 
yellow. Legs rather slender, brownish testaceous, the apical half of the 
posterior femora blackened ; tarsi all very long and slender. Middle and 
posterior tibiæ weakly setulose, the delicate setulæ forming a line just 
inside the posterior edge. Wings (fig. 14) large, the third vein far from 
the costa, subhyaline, with a faint brownish tinge. Costa reaching a 
little beyond the middle of the wing, beset with short, densely placed 
bristles. Tip of first vein equidistant from the humeral cross vein and 
the tip of the second ; second vein short, entering the costa its own 
length before the tip of the latter, and forming a moderately large cell 
at the furcation ; fourth vein weakly and evenly curved, its tip as far 
