syxEcnjcs. — svxbyas. 333 



262. Syneches fuscipennis, sp. iio\ . 



J . Head with upper eye-facets bright reddish brown, lower 

 cues dark coffee-brown; vertex blackish; frons very small, dark, 

 shining; face very narrow, dark grey; proboscis brownish yellow, 

 barely reacliing as far as tip of anteimaj ; palpi moderately long, 

 browiiisli yellow ; antenntu brownish yellow, 3rd joint brown, 

 with a long bristle on upperside and very long dark arista which 

 is yellowish at base ; occipnt blackish, very concave, with some 

 long hairs on lower half. Thorax subglobular, dorsum hemi- 

 spherical, dark brown, moderately shining, almost bare; scutelluiu 

 concolorous, with a row of stiff hairs on hind margin. Abdomen 

 dull black, with moderately long and soft black pubescence; 

 genitalia concolorous. Legs : coxte, anterior femora (except at 

 tips), hind femora, and tarsi black ; remainder of legs yellow. 

 Pubescence rather long and moderately dense ; a row of longer 

 hairs on upper and outer sides of anterior tibiae, and three long 

 bristles on outer side of middle tibije; pubescence on underside 

 of hind femora a little longer, and on hinder side of hind tibiae 

 towards tips conspicuously longer and denser ; a row of 6-7 short 

 blunt, teeth below hind femora on apical halt. Wings greyish 

 brown ; venation nornuil ; halteres yellowish, with black clubs. 



Lenf/th, about 'S^ mm. 



Described from a single (^ in the Indian Museum from Tale- 

 wadi, near Castle Kock, X. Kanara Distr., 3-10. x. 1916 (Kemp). 



Genus SYNDYAS, Ltv. 

 Si/ndyas, Loew, Ufv. K. Vet.-Akad. Furb. xiv, p. 369 (1857). 



Gexotype, Sijndyas Ojxtca, Lw. (S. Africa) ; by Coquillett's 

 designation (1910). 



The character in which this genus differs from Hyboa is the 

 indistinctness of that portion of tlie 4th longitudinal vein dividing 

 the two basal cells. From SijnecJtes it differs in the same way, 

 and by the origin ol the 2nd vein being more remote from the 

 humeral cross-vein. 



No specimen of the genus has come before me, only one Asiatic 

 species having been recorded. 



263. Syndyas parvicellulata, Bezzi. 



Si/ndi/(is inirvicelMata, Bezzi, Ann. Mas. Hung-, ii, p. 321, fig. 1 

 ■(1904). 



$ . Head round ; eyes above antennae contiguous, barely 

 separated below bv an extremely narrow shining black space; 

 upper facets hardly larger than lower ones ; proboscis short, 

 horizontal ; palpi black, slender, bare ; ocellar bristles yellowish, 

 very slender ; antennae wholly black, 3rd joint oval, acuminate, 

 with rather long, ^ery thin arista. Thorax moderately convex, 

 very bright, with whitish hairs ; dorso-central bristles very weak. 



