1-34 SYRPniD.E. 



transverse bands are extremely narrow, and not interrupted, this 

 being the main, but a constant difference. 



Length, S mm, (without snout). 



Described from the tjipe d" from between Kufri and Simla, 

 7000 fC, 4. vii. 1907, and the ^//pe $ from Tlieo^, 27. iv, 1907 (both 

 Annandnle). A third specimen from Darjiling District, 9000- 

 12,000 ft. {BurlilJ): this latter has a darker thorax and all the 

 tibiae have a distinct broad black ring. I have seen a specimen 

 from Dungagali, 21-24. v. 1915 {Fletcher). 



lOS. Rhingia semicinerea, sjj. nov. 



S. Head: vertex small, black, with a few black hairs; frons 

 blackish above with grey dust towards sides, gradually changing in 

 colour to the brownish-orange of lower frons and orange of face 

 and snout ; latter projecting horizontally as far as width of eyes in 

 profile. Antennae and arista orange. Lower part of head aeneous- 

 black ; occiput with close grey dust; short black bristly hairs on 

 upper, and softer pale hairs on lower, margin. Thorax wholly 

 dull green-aeneous, with brownish-yellow pubescence and distinct 

 traces, seen from behind, of a pair of moderately broad greyish 

 dust-stripes, rather close together but visible on anterior part of 

 dorsum only; humeri brownish-orange; a little grey dust in 

 humeral region ; scutellum concolorous, with yellowish hairs on 

 dorsum and a fringe of them dependent from hind margin, wdiich 

 latter is narrowly orange, bearing black bristles. Abdomen : 1st 

 and 2nd segments mainly orange, both with very narrow black 

 hind margins ; 2nd with also a narrow median stripe and a large 

 black spot on each side on hind margin ; ,Srd and 4th greenish- 

 black, hind margin of 3rd broadly blackish, of 4th indistinctly 

 blackish with a slight aeneous tinge; remainder, with venter, 

 greenish-black, latter yellowish at base. Legs brownish-orange 

 wit h pale pubescence ; laind tibiae a little brownish about the middle. 

 Wings, squamae and halteres j^ellowish. 



Length, 10 mm. from tip of snout to tip of abdomen. 



Described from a single <S in tolerably good condition, in 

 Indian Museum, from Naini Tal, June 1893, received from the 

 Lucknow Museum, 



Subfamily VOLUCELLINtE. 



Antenncc moderately long, and even if elongate, mainly pendent, 

 arista normally conspicuously plumose * ; face very considerably 

 produced into a blunt or more conical snout, sometimes (Lgcasiris) 

 of considerable length, Bod9/ usually robust, not linear or 

 attenuated. Legs simple, Wmgs with marginal cell closed or open ; 



* Bare, or nearty so in some species of Grai^tomyza. 



