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no hair-tufts or hairs, but two spines at the apex; antennae 
more plumose than in 9 and paler, some scales on the second 
segment. Fore and mid ungues unequal, the larger uniserrate, 
the smaller simple. 
Length. —5'5 mm. 
Habitat.— Kuranda, Queensland (Dr. Bancroft). 
Observations .—Described from four 9’s and one $ . Dr. 
Bancroft says this very marked Australasian species was common 
at the butts of large trees, fig-trees especially. Occasionally one 
would bite. 
It is a very marked species which must come in a new genus. 
The wing scales and marked palpi at once separate it. 
Types in the British Museum. 
Genus MIMETEOMYIA. nov. gen. 
Very near Hachisoura, but the 9 palpi much shorter and the 
lateral wing scales linear and narrowly spatulate. 
Head covered with flat scales; mesonotum with large narrow¬ 
er 
Mimeteomyia apicotriangulata. 9- n. sp. 
a, antenna ; b, palp ; c, proboscis. 
curved scales ; scutellum with small flat scales; antennae with 
the second and third segments large and swollen. 
The wing scales very Marked, a mixture of straight linear 
scales and rather narrow spatulate ones; costa spiny. Apex of 
