Genus Runchiomyia. a1 
Genus 43. RUNCHOMYIA. nov. gen. 
(Plate XV.) 
Allied to Dendromyia. 
Head covered with flat scales and upright forked ones 
behind ; proboscis’ very long in the 9, as long as the whole’ 
body, scaly; clypeus nude; basal joint of antennae bristly, 
flagellum verticillate ; frons drawn out into a blunt spine in the 9 
(fig. 178, e). Thorax covered with narrow-curved scales with 
broader ones over the wings and in front of the scutellum ; 
prothoracic lobes and scutellum with flat scales 3; metanotum 
with a tuft of bristles. Abdomen covered with flat scales and 
with a ventral apical tuft of bristles. Legs with hind tibiae 
dilated with simple ungues in the or 
Wings with the veins covered with rather broad scales ; 
fork-cells long; cross-veins as in Dendromyia. The palpi are very 
short in the 9. 
This genus is founded on two ? specimens (one of which is 
imperfect). The character upon which the genus is founded is 
the peculiar projecting blunt frontal process in the 9, long 
proboscis, the anal bristles, and wing scales. It is evidently 
closely related to Dendromyia, but is a very much larger insect 
than any I have seen in that genus. 
RUNCHOMYIA FRONTOSA. n. sp. 
Head covered with flat brown and violet scales. Thorax 
ochraceous to black, with brown narrow-curved scales ; pleurae 
ochraceous, with white scales; scutellum with flat scales, with 
blue and violet reflections. Abdomen ochraceous, covered with 
fiat black scales, with a violet reflection. Legs ochraceous, 
covered with blackish-brown scales, unbanded. Proboscis as 
long as the thorax and abdomen in the ?. 
2. Head covered with flat brown and violet scales, the 
violet ones most prominent at the sides, and with black, forwardly 
projecting bristles; antennae brown, with blackish, verticillate 
hairs, basal joint bright testaceous, flattened, with small black 
bristles at the inner side; palpi ochraceous, with brown scales 
