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male longer than the proboscis, the last two segments about equal 
in length and hairy. Hind ungues of the male unequal and 
uniserrate. Male clasper swollen and with large spines and one 
large apical curved spine. First posterior cell almost uniform in 
breadth. 
Although only the male is known, this presents a very marked 
genus on account of the squamose characters of the head, the 
marked first posterior cell, and the peculiar claspers to the male 
genitalia. As I had only one specimen to dissect, it was not 
possible to make out the exact detail of one side of the broadly 
expanded apex of the claspers. 
Bathosomyia abnormalis. nov. sp. 
Head with pale creamy scales; palpi and proboscis brown; 
antennae flaxen. Thorax brown with pale creamy scales. 
Abdomen brown with basal creamy bands broadened in the 
middle. Legs uniformly brown, hind tibiae with pale apex. 
$ . Head deep brown, clothed with loosely applied flat pale 
creamy scales, a few pale narrow-curved ones in the middle near 
the base; golden chaetae in front, dark ones at the sides ; 
antennae with broad pale bands and narrow dark ones, plume- 
hairs flaxen-brown; clypeus and proboscis deep brown; palpi 
deep brown ; the two apical segments, of nearly equal length, 
with scanty brown hairs forming tufts, and a group of long 
brown hairs at the apex of the ante¬ 
penultimate segment; palpi longer than 
the proboscis. 
Thorax deep brown, clothed with rather 
large pale creamy narrow-curved scales and 
brown chaetae ; scutellum ochreous brown 
with narrow-curved pale creamy scales 
and four brown border-bristles to the mid 
lobe; metanotum deep brown; pleurae 
brown with patches of pale flat scales. 
Abdomen brown, clothed with black 
scales with large basal patches of white 
scales not quite forming bands, becoming 
creamy yellow on the sixth and seventh 
segments, the last all creamy scaled; very long dull golden 
border-bristles and also lateral ones. 
Legs brown unbanded, the hind tibiae with yellow apical 
Bathosomyia abnormalis. 
Theobald. 
$ clasper. 
