360 EMPXD^. 



outer ones are broad enougli to extend over the lateral margins, 

 and all three attain the anterior margin of tlie dorsum ; a few 

 bristly hairs about the roots of the wings and mucli smaller ones 

 on the dorsal sti'ipes ; sides a little more yellowish than the 

 dorsum, with which latter the scutelluiii and metanotum are con- 

 colorous, the scutellum bearing a few stiff black hairs on the hind 

 margin ; the metanotum a little dusky in the centre. Abdomen 

 dark blackish brown, with black pubescence ; genital organs dark 

 grey, with a little pubescence; venter similar to dorsal side of 

 abdomen. Le</s : coxae and femora yellowish ; tibia? dark brownish 

 yellow, tarsi dark brown ; front metatarsi considerably widened ; 

 all the le^is shortly pubescent; tibiae with two rows of five or six 

 long stiff hairs. Wings pale brown; stigma vague, very elongate, 

 a little darker brown ; halteres yellowish brown. 



Le'iKjth, nearly 4 mm. 



Described from a single J in the Indian Museum taken by me 

 at Darjiling, 29. v. 1910, on the hillside. 



297. Hilara peshawarensis, sp. nov. 



cJ §. Whole insect blackish grey. Head: proboscis shining 

 black, as long as height of head, with stiff' hairs : antennce robust, 

 microscopically grey pubescent; palpi rather long, with moderately 

 long bristly hairs. Thorax with almost microscopic yellowish-grey 

 tomentum, which is more conspicuous on hinder part and on 

 scutellum, the latter with four long marginal bristles. Abdomen 

 with the segments more or less microscopically grey-dusted (in 

 good specimens); some grey pubescence with longer bristly hairs 

 on hind margins of segments ; genitalia knob-like, rather large, 

 concolorous, pubescent. Legs chestnut-brown, varying a little in 

 colour, pubescent ; fore metatarsus in S very large, oval, much 

 larger proportionately than in H. compacta ; pubescence on front 

 tibiae becoming longer towards tip; knees yellowish; hind tibiaB 

 in 5 considerably, though not conspicuously, thickened except at 

 base. Winr/s pale grey, iridescent, stiginatic region brownish; 

 stigma darker brown, elongate, Mith ill-defined edges. 



Length, 3 nun. 



Described from a series of both sexes from Peshawar, N.W. 

 India, 16. iii. 1913 (Hoivhtt). 



Type S ft'id $ sent to British Museum, cotype 6 2 in Indian 

 Museum and my collection. 



Genus HOWLETTIA, Bmn. 



Howlettia, Rrunetti, Rec. Ind. Miis. ix, p. 23 (1913). 

 Gejs'OTYPE, Hoivlettia Jlavipes, Brun. 



A genus of anomalous position, allied to the EMPiJf.i;, Octdro- 

 Miix.E, and TACHYUKOMiiNyE {Platiipal}ms). 



$ . Head with eyes separated above by a moderately broad 

 frons and only very narrowlv separated below antennae. x\ntennae 



