EMPLS. — HILARA. 357 



shining black, including sides, scutellum, and metanotura ; wholh- 

 unmarked; a little soft wliitisli liair ; distinct; bristles apparently 

 absent; a few stiff pale hairs towards hind margin and on scu- 

 telliim. Abdomen darker brown, nearly bare ; genitalia slender, 

 normal, elongate, concolorous. Lec/s brownish yellow; hind coxoe, 

 tips of tibiaj, and all the tarsi blackish. Femora quite bare ; tibiae 

 with only a few short stiff hairs towards tips ; tarsi pubescent. 

 Wiiif/s clear, higldy iridescent ; anterior cross-vein just before 

 middle of discal cell ; stigma barely perceptible ; halteres brownish 

 yellow. 



Length, 3 mm. 



Described from two 2 2 ii^ the Indian jMuseura from Mundali, 

 12. V. 1910, taken in company with E. griseomr/ra 



293. Empis inconspicua, Brun. 



Einpis inconspicua, Brunetti, Ree. lud. Mas. ix, p. 28 (19] o). 



S. Head blackish; aiiteiuife black; palpi a little yellowish; 

 proboscis twice the height of the head, yellow above, black below. 

 Thorax of an intermediate shade between light and dark grey, 

 with comparatively long and rnther stiff hairs ; four long stiff 

 hairs on scutellum, which, with sides of thorax and metanotum, 

 are concolorous, but lighter grey just below shoulders. Abdomen 

 concolorous, rather broad and flat, with parallel sides and soft 

 black pubescence. Genitalia blackish, with reddish-brown bisinuate 

 terminal hooks; venter blackish. Legs uniformly dark brown, 

 pubescent; middle tibiae with four long stiff hairs on outer side; 

 hind libiae with long hairs on hinder side. Wings pale grey; 

 anterior cross-vein a little before | of discal cell ; stign)a brownish, 

 ill-defined, much elongated, and reaching the costal margin ; 

 halteres yellow. 



Length. 2| nun. 



Described from two S S in tlie Indian Museum from Lucknow, 

 17. i. 1908 {type) and 9. ii. 1908. 



Genus HILARA, Mg. 

 Hilara, Meigfiii, Syst. Bescli. iii, p. 1 (1822). 

 Geis'Otype, Empis maura (Europe) ; by Curtis's designation. 



Allied to both Empis and Ithamphomyia. 



Head in some species nearly as broad as the thorax, shorter than 

 high. Eyes nearly always sepai-ated by a narrow frons in both 

 sexes, but in some species contiguous in tlie male, in which case 

 the upj)er facets are larger than the lower ones. Antennae 

 3-jointed, with distinct 2-]ointed style ; 1st and 2nd joints short, 

 about as long as broad, bristly ; 3rd elongate-conical, bare, slightly 

 compressed ; 1st joint of style very short, 2nd elongate, cylin- 

 drical. Proboscis about as long as height of head or a little 



