S8 SYBPHIDuE. 



wliich is more whitish and ragged on the sides. Scutelkim 

 luteous, seuii-translucent, a little darker in middle, pale yellow 

 pubescent. Abdomen i-eddish-yellow, basal segment, central basal 

 part of 2nd segment, a moderately narrow baud on hiud borders 

 of 2nd and 3rd segments, apical half of 4th and all the 5th 

 segment, black. Dorsum of abdomen with pale yellowish-grey 

 pubescence, which is longer and thicker about the sides of 2nd 

 segment. Venter yellowish, a broad black transverse baud on 

 2nd segment, apical part of abdomen black. Legs : coxae, basal 

 half of anterior femora and basal three-fourths of hiud femora, 

 black ; also median half of hind tibise, though less well defined, 

 and upper sides of all tarsi. Eest of legs brownish-yellow ; under 

 side of hind tarsi with golden-brown pubescence. Wimjs clear, 

 subcostal cell pale yellowish ; squama; pale yellow ; halteres 

 yellow. 



Lengtli, 7 mm. 



Described from a perfect 5 in the Indian Museum, presented 

 by Col. Tytler, taken by him at Kousanie, 6075 ft., Ivumaon 

 District, 22. vii. 1914, and erroneously described by me as a J • 

 Pusa, o.iii. 1911. 



Genus PSILOTA, Meig. 

 Psilota, Meigen, Syst. Beschr. iii, p. 256 (1822). 



Gexottpe, p. anthracina, Meigen ; sp. uov. 



Allied to Pipiza and Chilosia ; face very prominent below 

 antenua?; no central knob, but conspicuously produced above 

 mouth-border ; eyes coutiguous for a long distance in 6 , deiisely 

 hairy, especially in J ; frons in $ wide ; antennal 3rd joint 

 elongate ; arista bare, almost basal. Thorax subquadrate. Ahdomen 

 short, broad, ovate or rather elongate. Legs simple, hind femora 

 stronger. Wings with anterior cross-vein very near base of discal 

 cell ; apical section of 4th vein long and slightly augulated at its 

 middle, as 1st posterior cell is nearly twice as wide as discal on 

 distal part of latter; apical section of 5th vein quite straight, 

 bent up at a sharp angle ; spurious vein indistinct. 



Life-history unknown. 



A somewliat aberrant genus, with the few venational charac- 

 teristics noted. 



Range. Europe, Algeria, North America, India, Australia. 



32. Psilota cyanea, Bnin. 



Psilota cyanea, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. xi, p. 202, pi. xiii, fig. 1, 

 head, profile (1915). 



<5 . Head : frons and face brilliantly shining violet-black ; the 

 vertical triangle demarcated by an impressed liue ; antennal 

 prominence very slight ; some erect brown hairs on vertex ; frons 



