342 empim;. 



pale pubescence. Wings distinctly brown, paler on apical aiid 

 posterior parts ; stigma very distinct and large, dark brown ; 

 venation normal; halteres brown. 



Lengthy 2 mm. 



Described from one $ in the Pasa collection taken at Pusa,. 

 April 1908. 



Ti/jye in the British Museum. 



B. nitens is distinguished from hnmiiq^es by the vex'y brown 

 wings and conspicuous large stigma, by the nearly black legs, and 

 especially by the very shining black thorax and abdomen. 



From fuscipennis it is separated by the shining black thorax 

 and abdomen, the black proboscis, the very dark legs, and its- 

 smaller size, 2 mm. as compared with 3 mm. 



275. Hybos flavipalpis, Brtin. 



Hyhusflavlpaljns, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. ix, p. 14 (1913). 



(S . Head: eyes with upper facets much smaller than usual, but 

 larger than lo\Aer ones ; antennae black ; proboscis black, shining; 

 palpi yellowish ; occiput blackish, with a row of \^ell- separated ,. 

 curved, stiff black hairs, placed some distance behind the eye- 

 margins ; two bristles on vertex. Thorax shining black, stiff 

 bristly liairs laterally towards posterior margins and two on the 

 shilling black scutellum. Abdomen black, moderately shining,, 

 with rather long and ragged, yellowish-grey hairs at the sides. 

 Tip of abdomen enlarged ; genitalia very large, black, shining,. 

 with some Mhitish soft hairs. Legs mainly black, but anterior 

 tibiae and tarsi more nearly dark brown ; hind tibia? distinctly 

 brown towards tips, and slightly enlarged there ; hind tart^i also 

 distinctly brown. All the legs normally minutely pubescent, 

 tibiae with several long stiff bristly hairs on outer side ; hind 

 femora with two rows of small teeth below, bearing bristles. Wwgs 

 pale grey ; stigma pi'esent but weak, brownish ; halteres yelloAV. 



Length, 3 mm. 



Described from one 6 in the Indian Museum from Ivurseong,. 

 25. vi. 1910 {Annandale). 



276. Hybos nigronitidiis, Bimn. 



Hyhos 7ii(/ronitidus, Brunetti, IJec. lud. Wus. ix, p. 11 (1913). 



S $ . Head black ; occiput tinged \\i\\x dark grej' ; proboscis 

 almost as long as length of head, palpi nearly as long. Thorax 

 shining black, beset with microscopic retidish liairs ; sides of 

 thorax a little greyish, but not at all conspicuously so. Two 

 or three stiff bristly hairs about the base of the wing and one 

 stiff hair on each humerus ; a few of unequal length placed in a 

 row on endi side of the median line, and at least two of these (the 

 two hindmost) of considerable size ; two also at tip of the con- 

 I'olorous scutellum ; both thorax and scutellum bear irregularly 

 placed softer liairs. Ahdomen shining black, in certain lights with 

 a little greyish reflection; a little black pubescence in J; in 5' 



