356 EMPiD.i:;. 



below the metatarsi also, and are even continued in a less pro- 

 nounced scale-like form on tlie underside of the remaining tarsal 

 joints; the legs generally with minute stiff black hairs. Wiuf/s 

 brownish yellow ; anterior cross-vein at two-fifths of discal cell ; 

 stigma practically imperceptible ; halteres brownish yellow. 



Lenr/th, 7 mm. 



Described from a single $ in the Indian Museum from Theog, 

 Simla Distr., 8000 ft., 1. v. 1907 (Annandah). 



291. Empis marginata, Bnm. 



Fachymeria marginata, Bnuietti, Rec. Ind. Mus. xiii, p. 79 (1917). 



$ , Head : frons ash-grey, with parallel sides ; ocellar triangle 

 large, black ; palpi bright orange ; anteiinte all black, 3rd joint 

 considerably broadened at base, style joints distinct ; occiput 

 bluish grey, with bristles and stiff hairs. Thorax moderately dark 

 grey, with a slight yellowish tinge ; two dark median well-separated 

 narrow stripes from anterior margin to well beyond middle ; an 

 outer stripe on each side, abbreviated, enlarged iuto an irregularly 

 shaped and rather indefinite elongated large spot behind the 

 suture ; dorsum covered Avith short black hairs, except on the 

 stripes ; pleurae concolorous, with black hairs ; a bunch of bristly 

 hairs on each humerus ; two macroclifetse just in front of wing- 

 base, and a fringe of long stiff black hairs on each side of the 

 metanotum ; scutellum concolorous, with four marginal bristles. 

 Abdomen moderately dark ash-grey; hind margins of segments 

 shining black, the colour extending forwards in centre nearly or 

 quite to anterior margins ; 5th segment wholly grey ; 6th and 7th 

 grev, shining black basally ; venter grey ; ovipositor black. Legs: 

 coxae grey, tips brownish yellow : femora in no way incrassated, 

 brownish orange, a browii streak on upper side of fore pair, and 

 traces oE such on middle pair; tibiae and tarsi brownish yellow, 

 tips of joints of latter black. Femora with soft black pubescence, 

 longest on underside of posterior pairs ; hind pair with a row of 

 eifiit or more bristles ; tibiae with soft black pubescence and 

 longitudinal rows of bristles : tarsi pubescent. Winga very 

 pale yellowish grey, unmarked ; stigma absent ; anterior cross-vein 

 nist before middle of discal cell ; halteres brownish yellow. 



Length, 5 mm. (to tip of ovipositor). 



Described from a single $ in the Indian Museum, taken between 

 Kugri and Phagu, Simla Distr., 21. v. 1906 {AnnandaJe and Kemp). 



Very like the European fcmorata, F., which might (juite likely 

 occur in the A\^estern Himalayas, but differing radically in the 

 hind femora showing no trace of incrassation. 



292. Empis elegans, Brnn. 



Empis elei/aiis, Bnuietti, Rec. Ind. Mus. ix, p. 26 (191;!). 



2 . Head black ; antennae black ; palpi large, yellow ; proboscis 

 twice the height of the head, black or blackish brown. Thora.r 



