CHILOSIA. 45 



'^7. Chilosia hirticincta, Bmn. 



Vhilii^ia hirtici/irfa, Bnuiotti, Kec. Ind. Mas. xi, p. 204 (lUl-^). 



c5' . Bead : eyes covered with dense brownish-yellow pubes- 

 cence, touchino: for a, considerable space, leaving a very small 

 vertical triangle, blackish, with three or four long black hairs 

 intermixed with the long brownish-yellow ones. Frons sharply 

 (len)arcated from face, very convex, teneous-blackish, with only 

 a very narrow grey-dusted eye-border and an indistinct median 

 similar line ; the whole frons covered witli long black hair. Face 

 moderately prominent, central bump small, mouth-border not 

 very prominent, extremely narrowly orange; the face blackish, 

 with very sliort, almost microscopic pubescence. Eye-margins 

 greyish, with long yellowish-grey liair. Occiput and lower part 

 of head grey, with yellowish-grey hairs. Proboscis black. An- 

 tenntc with first two joints black, 3rd black, with, visible in certain 

 lights, a greyish dust ; rounded, but with rather truncate tip ; arista 

 bare, black ; the depression in which the anteinia; are set, brownisli- 

 yellow. Thorax and scutellum shining aeneous, with rather long 

 and thick brownish-yellow hair with which some black hair 

 is intermixed. No stiff bristly hairs on either thorax or scutellum. 

 Sides of thorax cinereous-grey (the colour extending almost over 

 the shoulders), with rather long brownish-yellow hair. Abdomen 

 a;neous-black, shining, with long yellowish hair ; the third 

 segment with all the hairs on the dorsum black. Legs: femora 

 blackish with long yellowish hair, extreme tips orange. Tibiae 

 black, the base broadly, the tips less broadly, orange or brownish- 

 yellow ; with yellow or golden-yellow short pubescence on front 

 side of front ])air. Tarsi blackisli above, with a little yellowish- 

 brown hair, under side with rich golden-brown or golden-yellow 

 close pubescence, the first two joints of tlie middle pale hi-ownish- 

 yellow. \Vi)ir/s pale grey, a little yellowish on basal half 

 anteriorly, in one specimen slightly yellowish in the neighbourhood 

 of the veins. Ilalteres and tegula; brownish-yellow. 



Length, 9-10 mm. 



Described from three d" S i'l the Indian Museum from the 

 Darjiling District {Lgnch). 



This species is easily known by the conspicuous, wholly black- 

 haired 3rd abdominal segment. 



38. Chilosia nigvoaBiiea, Brmi. 



Chilosia 7iiyroccnea, Brunetti, lice. Ind. Mus. xi, p. 204 (191o). 



S $. Head: eyes in c? contiguous for about one-tliird of the 

 distance from extreme vertex to root of antenna), vertical triangle 

 blackish, with some long black hairs. Eyes with rather thick, 

 short yellowish-grey {)ubescence, which when viewed from certain 

 directions appears quite white : frons as in hirticiucia, dust on 

 eye-margins less distinct; face with central knob somewhat 

 large, conspicuous and rounded, a^ieous-black, shining, with very 



