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upright forked scales ; clypeus, palpi and proboscis black; 
antennae deep brown, basal segment black, base of second seg¬ 
ment pale ochreous. 
Thorax rich deep brown, with narrow-curved bronzy brown 
scales scattered over its surface ; scutellum shiny black with 
narrow-curved bronzy-black scales, the surface pale in some 
lights, four dark median posterior border-bristles; metanotum 
chestnut and dull brown; pleurae brown with dull flat white 
scales. 
Abdomen deep brown with dull brown scales, dull ochreous 
to grey scaled venter. 
Legs uniformly deep brown, except the coxae and under side 
of femora which are ochreous ; ungues equal and simple. 
Wings with short fork-cells, the first slightly longer and 
narrower than the second posterior, their bases about level, the 
stem about two-thirds as long as the cell; stem of the second 
posterior as long as the cell ; posterior cross-vein longer than the 
mid, about one and a half times its own length distant from it. 
Length .—4 mm. 
Habitat. —Pallode, 20 miles 1ST.E. of Trivandrum, Travancore. 
Time of capture. -M5. xi. 08. 
Observations .—Described from a single 9 • The abdomen 
somewhat denuded, but there is no trace of any pale scales. 
Type in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 
Genus LEPTOSOMATOMYIA, Theobald (1905). 
Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung. III., 110 (1905); Mono. Cnlicid. IV., 548 (1907), 
Theobald. 
Leptosomatomyia lateralis. Theobald (1905). 
Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung. III., 110 (1905); Mono. Culicid. IV., 548 (1907), 
Theobald. 
Muina, Mew Guinea. 
Type in National Museum, Budapest. 
