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row of stronger ones. Thorax shining black, closely and entirely 

 covered with cinereous dust, in which three narrow slightly 

 yellowish stripes of the usual nature can be faintly traced ; scu- 

 tellum and metauotuni with dark grey dust ; sides of thorax 

 concolorous with dorsum ; nietapleural hairs yellow. Alidomen 

 blackish, ratliei- shining, with sparse pubescence ; hind margin of 

 segments indistinctly pale ; venter yellowish ; genitalia shining 

 yellowish brown. Legs: coxae dull orange, more or less grey- 

 dusted on basal part, a little pale pubescence in front ; remainder 

 of legs orange, liind tibite more brownish towards tips ; anterior 

 tarsi blackish brown towards tips, hind metatarsi much enlarged 

 and lengtliened, remaining hind tarsal joints black. Whufs pale 

 grey, venation normal; antex'ior cross-vein just before middle of 

 discal cell: halteres conspicuously chalk-white. 



Length, 5 mm. 



Described from one cJ in the Indian Museum from Zairat, 

 Baluchistan, 8000-9000 ft., viii. 1914 (Majo)- Wilson). 



Easily recognised from all other species by the conspicuous 

 white halteres. 



284. Empis carbonaria, Brun. 



Umpis carbonaria, Brunetti, Eec. Ind. Mas. ix, p. 27 (191o). 



c? . Wholly and uniformly coal-black, moderately shining. 

 Eyes separated by a nari-ow frous. Antennal 3rd joint distinctly 

 longer than the first two together, and its distal half rather 

 suddenly narrow ; style thick, half as long as the joint. Proboscis 

 nearly twice the height of the head, labium bilid at the tip. 



Fig. 30. — Empis carbonaria, Brun. 



Head, thoi'ax, and abdomen covered with long, soft, but not 

 copioiTS pubescence. Legs dark brown, with rather long soft black 

 hairs ; fore femora almost bare ; fore metatarsus distinctly incras- 

 sated, cylindrical, lengthened, as long as remaining tarsal joints 

 together ; hind metatarsus as long as next three joints together, 



