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Genus Hispidimyia. 
Danielsia tripunctata. Theobald (1907). 
Mono. Cuboid. IV., 247 (1907). 
Rio Grande, Brazil. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Danielsia nigrescens. Theobald (1907). 
Mono. Culicid. IV., 248 (1907). 
St. Amaro, Brazil. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Genus HISPIDIMYIA. nov. gen. 
Head clothed with flat scales, except for a small group of 
minute narrow-curved ones on the nape and a larger group 
of upright forked scales. Proboscis swollen on the apical third, 
composed of two segments, the joint at the apical third; labella 
acuminate. Antennae of male densely plumose with two very 
long terminal segments pilose only \ other segments thick, basal 
one globular; palpi of male a little longer than the proboscis, 
clavate at the apex ; of two segments the apical one short and 
clavate ? with ventral chaetae and two large and some small 
apical ones. Palpi of 9 about one-fourth the length of the 
proboscis. Prothoracic lobes with large curved spines in $, 
smaller in 91 mesothorax and scutellum with narrow-curved 
scales, the whole thorax with long dense-curved backwardly 
projecting chaetae. Abdomen densely hairy in the male, 
especially vent rally, also hairy in 9 • Wings with only median 
vein scales, spatulate in the male, some lateral broad short 
scales on the second vein, etc., in the 9- Pork-cells short in 
both sexes, the first with its base nearer the apex of the wing 
than the second. 
A marked genus, easily told by the male and female palpi, 
scale ornamentation and wing venation and scales. 
Very near Megcieulex , Theobald, but differs in head orna¬ 
mentation. 
Hispidimyia hispida. nov. sp. 
Head brilliant creamy-white ; proboscis ochreous, dark at 
apex ; palpi of $ clavate, a little longer than proboscis, ochreous, 
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