_Male._ Tawny. Head testaceous in front; antennae testaceous, third joint conical; abdomen with two black spots on each side at the tip; legs testaceous; tarsi black; wings grey; veins black, discal transverse vein straight, parted by full half its length from the border and by full twice its length from the praebrachial transverse; halteres testaceous. Length of the body 1-1/2 line; of the wings 3 lines. 163. DROSOPHILA? MELANOSPILA. _Foem._ Testacea; antennarum articulo tertio conico, arista plumosa; thoracis disco abdominisque guttis duabus apicalibus atris; tarsis piceis; alis subcinereis. _Female._ Testaceous. Vertex luteous; third joint of the antennae conical; arista plumose; disk of the thorax and a dot on each side of the tip of the abdomen deep black; tarsi piceous; wings slightly greyish; veins black, discal transverse vein straight, parted by about half its length from the border and by twice its length from the praebrachial transverse. Length of the body 1 line; of the wings 2 lines. 164. DROSOPHILA? IMPARATA. _Foem._ Pallide testacea; pedibus pallidioribus; alis subcinereis, venis pallidis. _Female._ Pale testaceous, with a few bristles. Legs paler than the body; wings slightly greyish; veins pale, discal transverse vein straight, parted by about twice its length from the border and by more than twice its length from the praebrachial transverse. Length of the body 3/4 line; of the wings 1-1/2 line. Subfam. HYDROMYZIDES, _Haliday_. Gen. EPHYDRA, _Fallen_. 165. EPHYDRA? TACITURNA, n. s. _Foem._ Atra, nitens, antennis nigris, arista plumosa, abdomine nigro-cupreo, pedibus nigro-piceis, alis nigricantibus, venis nigris. _Female._ Deep black, shining. Antennae black, third joint linear, rather long, arista plumose; legs blackish-piceous; wings blackish; veins black, discal transverse vein straight, parted by a little more than its length from the border. Length of the body 1-1/2 line; of the wings 2-1/2 lines. Fam. PHORIDAE, _Haliday_. Gen. PALLURA, n. g. _Mas._ _Corpus_ latiusculum, pubescens. _Os_ retractum. _Oculi_ pubescentes. _Antennae_ brevissimae; arista longissima. _Scutellum_ magnum, conicum. _Abdomen_ subellipticum, thorace non longius. _Pedes_ latiusculi, pubescentes, non setosi. _Alae_ amplae, venis aequalibus.