92 STKATi():s[Yn).iL. 



Described from a 6 and two $ $ in the Indian Museum taken 

 by me at Darjiling, 0900 ft., 2, x. 1908. 



Whetliev this species is the true B. genu-ulata of Curtis is not 

 quite certain, as though it agrees in practically all other points, 

 the difference in the width of the frons in the $ is important : 

 less than one-fourth the width of the head in true yenicidata and 

 nearly one-thirtl in the present form. My specimens are also 

 distinctly a size smaller, 4-5 mm. against about 6. B. geniculata, 

 Curt., is recorded from Central and Southern Europe. 



ni. Beris anniilipes, Brun. 



Berts annulipes, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mas. vii, p. 455 (1912). 



$ . Head witli frons nearly one-fourth the width of the head : 

 brilliantly shining, dark blue, uniformly wide ; occiput shining 

 black, with a little grey hair on posterior ocular orbits : eyes very 

 shortly but distinctly pubescent ; proboscis reddish yellow. An- 

 tennsB with first two joints black, with bristly hairs ; 3rd joint 

 yellowish on basal, black on apical half ; a little grey hair about 

 the base of the antennae. Thorax brilliantly shining violet-blue, 

 with yellow pnbescence on dorsum ; scutellnm brilliantly shining 

 peacock (greenish) blue, with six strong equidistant shining darker 

 green spines on hind margin. Abdomen violet, moderately shining, 

 sides with brownish yellow pubescence ; venter darker, with short 

 yelloM- hairs. Legs yellow ; tips of anterior femora with an indis- 

 tinct brown band ; hind femora and tibiaj with a distinct broad 

 brown apical band on each ; tarsi marked extensively with brown. 

 Wings grey, upper part (except costal cell), as far hindwards as 

 to include the anterior basal and first posterior cells, brown; 

 lialteres yellow. 



Length, 6| mm. 



Described from one example taken by me at Darjiling, 7000 ft., 

 27. V. 1910 ; in the Indian Museum. 



Genus CHORISOPS, Uond. 



Clwri.'iopti, liondani, Dipt. Ital. Prod, i, p. 173 (1850). 

 Chloriso2)s, Brauer, Denks. Ak. Wien, xliv, p. 72 (1882). 



CrEXOTYPE, Berts tibialis, Mg. ; by original designation. 



Differing from Beris by the palpi being elongate, as long as 

 proboscis, and the eyes in the S distinctly though rather narrowly 

 separated. Eyes bare in both sexes. Scutellnm with four yellowish 

 spines. Genitalia in c? very protruding. Hind tibite incrassated 

 after the base, especially in S • Wings with 3rd vein more shortly 

 forked ; 4th vein with an abortive 3rd termination ; lower brancli 

 of 5th vein much curved, closing anal cell far before the wing- 

 boi'der ; stigma very distinct. 



Jiamje. Europe, India, Chile. 



