HILAR A. 359 



yellow, pubescent. Thorax wholly dark grey, including sides, 

 scntelluni, and metauotum ; a little black pubescence, and some 

 stronger hairs on dorsum laterally. Abdomen blackish, pubescent, 

 sometimes pale below at base ; genitalia a little broader than the 

 abdomen. Legs pale yellowish brown, pubescent; tibiae with a 

 row of longer stiff hairs on outer side ; front metatarsi much 



Fig. 32. — Hilara conipacfa, Brnii., wing. 



thickened, as wide as the tibiae, and longer than the remaining 

 fore tarsal joints ; posterior metatarsi normal, not so long as the 

 remaining tarsal joints. Wiugs \rd\Q grey; stigma elongate, pale 

 brownish, ill-delined ; halteres dirty brownish yellow. 



Length, barely 2| mm. 



Described from thi'ee d J in the Indian Museum from Simla, 

 16. V. 1909 {type) and 9. v. 1909 {Annandale). 



295. Hilara bares, Wcdl: 



Hilara bares, Walker, List Dipt. Brit. 3Ius. iii, p. 491 (1849). 



" Body brown, clothed with short black hairs ; eyes dark red ; 

 feelers and mouth black; breast hoary ; legs tawny, clothed with 

 short black hairs; feet brown; wings light brown, darker for 

 one-third of the length along the fore-border ; wing-ribs and veins 

 piceous ; poisers brown. Length of the body, 1^ line; of the 

 wings, 3 lines. 



" East India. Presented by Capt. Parry." 



Tij2)e in the British Museum. 



29G. Hilara rufithorax, Brun. 



JEmpimorpha rajithorax, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. ix, p. 30 (1913). 



(^ . Head : occiput, f rons, which is moderately wide with 

 parallel linear edges, and face all black, with a few black bristles, 

 the latter with a pair of long bristly hairs; vertex with three 

 . distinct large reddish ocelli, with a pair of sfrong divaricate 

 bristles between the upper ones. Antennae yellow ; 3rd joint 

 elongate onion-shaped, with a long closely pubescent black arista, 

 ending in a small bare black pointed bristle ; the first two antennal 

 joints witli some short bristles near their tips. Proboscis about 

 as long as the height of the head, the basal half yellowish, the 

 apical half blackish ; palpi very long, longer than proboscis, some- 

 what broadened and flattened at the tips, with a few yellowish 

 hairs. Thorax bright light yellowish brown, with three black 

 dorsal stripes, of which the median one is of modei'ate width, the 



