142 LKPTID.T. 



antennae, proboscis, and palpi bright taw ny brown ; upper two- 

 thirds of eyes rich brown, with large facets ; loAver third black, 

 Avith very iiuich smaller facets. Tlwrax and scutelluin bright 

 tawuy brown, witli scattered golden-yellow hairs, and with black 

 hairs on the sciitelluui. Abdomen concolorous ; bases of segments 

 (except first and second) narrowly brown ; the Avhole abdomen 

 covered irregularly with black hairs, including a row on the 

 posterior border of every segment ; venter concolorous, with black 

 hairs. Legs (fore pair, except coxse, missing) uniformly bright 

 tawny brown, ])ractically bare; tarsi darker brown. Wings pale 

 gre\ , almost clear; stigma distinct, but with ill-defined edges; a 

 very light brownish band extending from it posteriorly, [)artly 

 across the wing ; veins tawny brown ; halteres tawny. 



Length, 5 mm. 



Described from one 6 in the Indian Museum from Mai'gherita, 

 Assam. 



108. Chrysopilus stigma, Brun. (PI. II, fig. 21.) 



Chrysopilus stir/ma, IBrunetti, llec. lud. Mu.«. ii, p. 43i\ pl. xii, 

 fig. 14 (1909). 



S • Head with vertex reduced to a very small elevated black 

 triangle, on the angles of wliich are the three prominent ocelli ; 

 eyes dark reddish brown, contiguous for a considerable distance, 

 the facets much larger for a considerable space in front above 

 the antennae, with a greenish-black tiuge and (in certain 

 lights) a narrow, bright green, horizontal stripe across tlie 

 middle; face nuich withdrawn between the eyes, light grey above 

 and below antennae; anteunse yellow, 3rd joint blackish, with 

 some liairs and a ratlier long arista, which is microscopically 

 pubescent ; proboscis cinereous grey, lower part tawny yellow ; 

 tlie pal|)i tawny yellow, with tips broadly black and hairy; a 

 fringe of light hairs around tlie eyes ; back of head light grey. 

 Thorax greenish, with a dorsal narrow brown stripe in irout and 

 two small indistinct brown spots in middle of dorsum ; sparse 

 yellow hairs over the whole dorsum ; sides of thorax cinereous 

 grey, yellowish at base of wing ; scutellum grey ; centre with a 

 slight greenish tinge. Abdomen yellowish, Ist segment blackish 

 grey, segments 2, 3, and 4 with a blackish, rather wide posterior 

 border and dorsal stripe, remainder of segments blackish ; venter 

 yellow, tip blackish ; a few yellow hairs scattered over dorsum of 

 abdomen, black hairs at tip; genitalia bi-lobed, tawny yellow, 

 with stiff black hairs. Legs with coxae and femora pale yellow, 

 with a few yellow hairs near tlie tip on underside of latter, and 

 with generally difstributed microscopic black hairs ; tibia? blackish 

 yellow, with mici'oscopic black hairs and some stronger bristles; 

 tarsi similar, tips black ; middle tarsi with two long spines at tip. 

 Wings quite clear; stigma distinct, dark brown, but without 

 well-defined limits ; traces of a pale yellowish stripe towards tip 

 of wing. Inner cross-vein placed before one-fifth of the discal 



