MILESIA. liU.VCHYPALPUS!, 275 



gratliially widening, at vertex from I to -J- width of liead, at 

 level of antenuc-e abont ^; bearing some black hairs, Antennce 

 conoolorous; proboscis blackish. Occiput not extending below 

 eyes, yellow-dusted, with a very short yellow fringe on lower part. 

 Thom.v orange-brown, blackish for a small space in middle of 

 hind margin ; and traces which indicate three darker stripes may 

 sometimes be present. Scutellum blackisli. Whole thorax with 

 a little short pale hair, which is longer on scutellum. Abdomen 

 witli 1st and 2nd segments black, the latter with a narrow pale 

 yellow baud on anterior margin ; ;3rd and 4tli orange-brown, 3rd 

 with a moderately narrow band in front of hind margin, and with 

 <a median dorsal stripe joining this band to the anterior margin ; 

 4lh with a blackish spot in middle and a similar dorsal stripe ; 

 a,ll the black markings with rather indefinite edges. Pubescence 

 short, pale yellow, longer and more whitish at sides of 1st and 

 2nd segments. Venter yellowish, with a little long fine pubes- 

 cence. Lerjs orange-brown, with short, pale yellow pubescence ; 

 hind coxie and greater part of hind femora from bas^ blackish ; a 

 small tooth on lower side of latter near tip. Wiiuj^i yellowish, 

 darker anteriorly nearly to middle; halteres brown. 



Lenr/ili, IG mm. 



Described from a unique $ in the British Museum. Lower 

 Ranges, N, Kliasi Hills, Assam, 1878 {Clmmell). 



Genus BRACHYPALPUS, Macq. 



Brachi/pa/pus, Macquart, Ili:5t. Nat. Ins., Dipt, i, p. 523 (1830). 



Genotype, SifrpJnis vah/us, Panz., as taberculalus, Macq., bv 

 designation of Hondani, Xuovi Ann. Sci. Xat. Boloo-iia, (2) ii. 

 p. 456 (1844). 



Head broader than thorax : eyes bare, contiguous for a con- 

 siderable space in the d" , widely separated in $; face hollowed 

 below antenna) and produced at upper mouth-edge, no central 

 knob; antenna) prominent though not long, placed on a small 

 prominence, 3rd joint rounded, arista sub-basal, bare. Thorax 

 blackish or dark ajneous, almost oblong, considerably pubescent ; 

 no bristly hairs. Abilomen with rai'e exceptions elongate, 

 narrower than thorax, with sides almost parallel. Lefjs strong; 

 hind femora consitlerably thickened, very pubescent, with spiny 

 bristles on underside; liind tibiio rather bent : hind trochanters 

 of 6 with a small process on under side. Wluys much as in 

 CriorrhliKi. 



Li/r-hislori/. The early stages are probably passed in rotting 

 portions of living trees, B. valgus has been found in decaying 

 willows in Europe (Bremi, Isis, ISKi, p, 174; cited bv Lundbei-k, 

 Dipt. Danica, v, p. oO.j, 1916). 



Range. Europe, India, North America, 



A very restrirted genus, the only Oriental species being B. dii-fg. 



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