284 BOMJJtLIID.r. 



iu fi'out and at sides witli long black hairs ; anterior margin of 

 thorax broadly whitish grey, which in the centre is produced 

 posteriorly into four narrow stripes, of which the ouler pair just 

 reach the suture, the inner pair beiug very slightly sliorter ; sides 

 ■of thorax black, with long black hairs, and the wliitish-grey colour 

 of the anterior margin of dorstan extends downwards somewhat 

 below the shoulders. Abdomen dull black, posterior margins of 

 segments narrowly yellowish, vvith the colour continued over the 

 sides and across the venter; a row of grey hairs on posterior 

 border of segments, and the sides of the abdomen with rather 

 tliick whitish-grey hairs ; venter concolorous. Leus black, minutely 

 pubescent ; femora with rather long soft black hairs on upper and 

 lower sides ; hind tibia) very shortly bristly. Wings nearly clear ; 

 subcostal cell ver}^ pale yellow ; l^alteres pale brown, clubs chalk- 

 white. 



Length, 4 mm. 



Described from one S taken by Dr. Annandale at 8imla, 

 IG. V. 1909, in company with the previous species. A second 

 specimen with the same data; boch in the Indian Museum. 



Genus PHTHIRIA, J/g. 



J'hf/iiricf, Meigeii, Illig. Mag. ii, p. tibS (1803). 

 Mec/apaljjiis, Macquart, Hist. Nat. Ins., Dipt, i, p. ,391 (1834). 

 J)(isyp((lpus, Macqiiart, Dipt. Exot. ii, pt. 1, p. 112 (1840). 

 Ciiclorhynchits, Macquart, Dipt. Exot. ii, pt. ], p. 114 ( 1 840) preocc. 

 l'htyri((, Kondani, Arcli. Zool. Modeiia, ill, ]>. 05 (1863). 

 Fwciloynathus, Jaeunicke, Abh. Senck. Nat. Ges. vi, p. 3o0 (1863). 



(texotype, BomhijUus indicaria?, Mikan (Europe) ; by original 

 designation. 



Head in 6 nearly semicircular, in 5 nearly circular, not 

 broader than high viewed from in front, about as wide as thorax ; 

 face broad but short down tlie middle, because the large and 

 rather wide mouth-opening extends up bet\A een the wide side 

 cheeks; frons in $ broad, depressed in the middle ; three ocelli; 

 eyes in tS contiguous or subcoutiguous, in 5 wide apart. Pro- 

 boscis long, thin, almost bristle-like, directed forwards in a slight 

 arch, labella very small ; palpi rather short and thin. Antennae 

 porrect, shorter than head, approximate at base ; 1st and 2nA. 

 joints short, subequal in length ; 3rd elongate, peg-shaped, with a 

 terminal style (sometimes mdistinct). Thorax oval, longer than 

 broad, slightly arched, in d with fairly long erect dense pubes- 

 cence, without bristles; in 5 with only short depressed pubescence; 

 pleume with oidy slight pubescence, except for a rather dense tuft 

 on the mesopleupic ; metapleuriB bare; scutelhun large, senii- 

 circulai-. Abdomen 7-segmented, conical in c? , ovate and rather 

 flattened iu § ; ])nbesceuce as on the thorax in 5 . Legs long 

 and tliin, entirely without bristles except for some tiny spicules on 

 the hinil tibia?. Wings longer than abdomen ; 1st basal cell 



