Genus Protomelanoconion . 
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Protomelanoconion fusoa. nov. sp. 
Head and thorax fuscous brown, pleurae ochreous; head pale 
around the eyes ; abdomen black with small basal lateral pale 
spots; pale ventrally at the apex. Legs black, pale on the 
venter of femora at base. Palpi and proboscis deep brown. 
9 . Head black, clothed with fuscous narrow-curved scales, 
grey around the edges of the eyes ; numerous black upright 
forked scales and long black forwardly projecting chaetae; 
clypeus brown ; palpi very short, black scaled, with a few black 
chaetae ; proboscis black ; antennae deep blackish-brown. 
Thorax black with dusky bronze narrow-curved scales and jet 
black chaetae ; seutellum brown with fuscous narrow-curved scales 
and four black border-bristles to the mid lobe ; metanotum black ; 
pleurae ochreous with some paler flat scales. 
Abdomen shiny black, clothed with fuscous black scales, small 
basal creamy-white lateral spots and dusky and grey border- 
bristles ; venter white scaled, the scales outstanding on the apical 
segments. 
Legs uniformly black with dull ochreous reflections, under side 
of femora pale, apex of hind tibiae yellow beneath ; chaetae black, 
ungues equal and simple. 
Wings with the first-fork-cell longer and narrower than the 
Fig. 207. 
Wing of Protomelanoconion fusca. n. sp. 
second, its base nearer the base of the wing, its stem about one- 
third the length of the cell; stem of the second fork-cell nearly 
two-thirds the length of the cell; posterior cross-vein about twice 
its own length distant from the mid. Halteres with ochreous 
stem and fuscous knob. 
Length .—2 * 5 to 3 mm. 
<£. Head, thorax, and abdomen as in the 9 • Proboscis 
black, palpi black about three-fourths the length of the proboscis. 
