CEllIA '^IMS 



at Itase, tip .lud underside; tarsi a little darker. Wini/s grt^y •, 

 anterior half from base to tip, and as far hindwards as just 

 beyond 3rd longitudinal vein, blackish-brown, the colour darker 

 here and there; basal half of 1st basal and whole of 2nd basal 

 cell also dark brown, costal cell clearer. Halteres bright 3'ellow. 



Leiifjth, 10 nnn. 



Described from a perfect unique specimen in the Indian 

 Museum from Kousanie, Kumaon, AV. Himalayas, 6075 ft., 

 vii. 1914 {Col. T>jtler). 



200. Ceria fenestrata, sp. \\o\. 



2 . Bead black : a small, pale yellow, round spot on each side 

 contiguous to eye-margins at level of base of antennae; and, 

 beginning just below this point, an elongate curved spot on each 

 side, extending from eye-margin to tip of epistoma, leaving a 

 broad, black median stripe. Autennal petiole dark brow n ; 

 antennae black, style of 3rd joint whitish. Occiput black, rather 

 well developed behind vertex but not projecting behind middle 

 of eyes at all. Thora.v entirely black ; humeri with di><tinct 

 brow nisli-orange calli ; there are narrow traces of similar colour 

 along the suture, and traces of greyish dust on lower part of 

 pleurne ; scutellum wholly black. Abdomen black ; 1st and 2nd 

 segments subequal, appearing almost fused into a single segment, 

 sluirply contracted at their point of union, the narrowest part 

 occurring at base of 2n(l segment ; 1st and 2nd segments together 

 not so long as 3rd; 3rd a little longer than 4tli ; 2nd and 3rd 

 with a broad, clear-cut, brownish-orange hind margin, 5th segment 

 dark brown. Venter dark brown. Ler/s blackish-brown, knees 

 narrowly, and tarsi indistinctly, brownish-orange. Wliujs pale 

 yellowish-grey, iridescent ; dark brown from anterior margin to 

 spurious vein, from whence tlie colour is limited l)y the 3rd vein ; 

 the brown colour also wholly fills the 2nd basal cell, but the 

 hinder half of the apical part of the 1st basal cell (v. e., from base 

 of 2nd posterior cell to tip of 1st basal cell) is hyaline. Halteres 

 black at base and tips, yellowish in miildle part. 



Length, 11 nnn. 



Described from a single $ in the British Museum. llunjit 

 A^alley, Sikkim, v. 18J)4 (Bhu/Iiam). 



The small, window-like, narrow, clear space at the tip of the 

 1st basal cell, and the marked shortness of the 2nd segment are 

 the most conspicuous characters of the species. It bears some 

 resendjlance to my C\ conipacta, hut this latter has the alnlouifn 

 scarcely narrowed at all at the base. 



2<31. Ceria trinotata, de Meij. 



Cen'n trinolafa, de Meijere, I3ijd. tot Dierk. xviii, p. 07 ( 1904). 



J 5 • //t'rtf/ : eyes in cS contiguous for a short space (uily. 

 Vertex well elevated, consisting of two large pale yellow calli 

 with short yellowish pubescence; a miiuite black space intervenes 



