Genus Mimomyia. 535 
pronounced on the second and third segments; border-bristles 
and other hairs very fine, pale brown to golden brown. 
Legs unhanded, clothed with brown scales, showing dull 
ochreous and bronzy reflections; ungues small, equal and simple ; 
chaetae deep brown, rather thick. 
Wings, with large scales on the apices of the veins; fork-cells 
moderately long ; the first submarginal about the same length 
and width as the second posterior, its base very slightly nearer 
the apex of the wing than that of the latter ; stem of the first 
fork-cell not quite as long as the cell; stem of the second fork- 
Fig. 228. 
Wing of Mimomyia circumtestacea. $. Theobald. 
cell also not quite as long as the cell; supernumerary and 
posterior cross-veins very slightly longer than the mid cross-vein, 
the latter about one and a half times its own length distant from 
the mid; sixth long vein abruptly curved round to the border; 
halteres with pale stem and fuscous knob. 
Length .—3 mm. 
£. Head brown, with brown flat scales, showing dull 
ochreous reflections and with dull yellowish upright forked 
scales behind. Antennae plumose, plume-hairs deep rich brown, 
basal segment black, internodes pale; proboscis deep brown, 
slightly ochreous at the base, labellae pale, much swollen along 
the apical two-thirds, hairy; palpi thin brown, about two-thirds 
the length of the proboscis. 
Thorax as in 9 • Abdomen with the basal lateral spots more 
pronounced than in the 9 ’> palo ochreous ventrally and with 
pale hairs. 
Legs uniformly brown with bronzy reflections ; ungues simple, 
fore and mid nearly equal in size, but slightly different shape (?). 
Wings with the fork-cells of about equal length and width, 
the base of the first nearer the apex of the wing than the base 
