76 STRATIOMYIDiE. 



dorsum brilliantly shining peacock-green, with short whitish 

 hairs; a small brownish-yellow spot on the shoulders is connected 

 with the wings by a very narrow brownish-yellow ridge delimiting 

 the dorsal and ventral surfates. Abdomen brilliant shining violet, 

 w ith pale grey hairs ; venter similar. Lec/s : femora black, with 

 sliort white iiairs, a little brownish yellow at base; tjie knees of 

 similar colour and the coxae with a mark or two of the same shade ; 

 tibite black, more or less yellowish on apical part, the whole surface 

 with short pale yellow hairs ; tarsi dark, with pale hairs ; under- 

 side of hind tarsi Avith short, very dark golden-brown pubescence. 

 Wings grey ; stigma ill-detined ; this region of the wing brownish ; 

 veius dark brown ; halteres yellowish. 



Length, 14 mm. 



Described from one $ in the Indian Museum from Ukhrul, 

 Manipur, Assam, 6400 ft. {Rev. W. Pcttigreiv). 



46. Ptecticus aurobrunneus, sp. nov. 



S • Head with vertex and frons down to its narrowest jiart deep 

 orange ; former with golden and brown hairs intermixed, latter 

 with golden hairs only; frontal triangle bright lemon-yellow, 

 nearly bare ; ooellar triangle black, ocelli with a reddish tinge ; 

 face, Mjouth, and proboscis orange-yellow; antennae oi-ange, arista 

 black, orange at base ; eyes black ; occiput yellowish, reduced, 

 owing to the margins of the eyes themselves curving backwards 

 considerably. Thorax dorsally and scutellum dark chestnut- 

 brown, with just a suggestion of three darker stripes, wholly 

 covered with short, dense, though inconspicuous, golden pu- 

 bescence ; propleura, pteropleura, metapleura, and metanotum 

 lighter chestnut-brown ; mesopleura and sterno'pleura shining 

 blackish ; whole sides of thorax, even to the mesopleura, with 

 short dense golden pubescence, though at first sight they appear 

 to be bare. Abdomen with 2nd to 5th segments dark chestnut- 

 brown, witli short dense golden pubescence, which is invisible 

 when viewed from in front, but from that view a large irregularly 

 shaped black spot is seen in the centre of each segment, almost 

 forming a dorsal stripe; 1st segtnent and tip of abdomen black, 

 with some yellow or golden hairs ; genitalia and vertex dark 

 brown, the latter with microscopic golden pubescence, only visible 

 when viewed from in front. Legs with front coxae brownish 

 orange ; posterior coxae dark brow n, all with a little golden hair ; 

 rest of legs bright orange; posterior femora black on basal half; 

 tips of tarsi a little darker. Wings rather dark brown; a small 

 space in both basal and discal cells slightly paler, and traces of 

 similar lighter spaces in the centres of some of the other cells ; 

 halteres pale yellowish. 



Length, 21 mm. 



Described from a unique (S in the Iiulian Museum from 

 Parambikulam, Cochin State, 1700-3200 ft., 16-24. ix. 1914 

 {Gravel}/). 



