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antennae becoming more yellowish, witli a little greyish reflection 

 at sides; rest of head pale orange-yellow with indistinct whitish 

 reflections. Antennae deep orange, including the short thickened 

 arista; 2nd joint as long as 1st and 3rd together. Occiput orange- 

 yellow, broadly dull brown behind ; vertex with a little bristly 

 pubescence; proboscis black. Total height of head double tluit 

 of eyes. Thorax orange-brown, dorsum distin(!tly blackish, the 

 colour extending to the anterior margin ; mesopleurae and sterno- 

 pleurae with uniform whitish i-eflections ; scutellum orange-brown, 

 with four fairly strong black bristles on the hind border, and some 

 smaller bristles ; metanotum shining black. Abdomen orange- 

 brown, with whitish dust and silvery reflections towards sides ; 

 1st segment mainly blackish on dorsum. Pubescence of abdomen 

 composed of fine, stiff, black hairs. Legs orange-brown to tips of 

 tarsi ; coxae with silvery-white reflections ; a black streak on 

 upper side of fore femora ; hind tibiae darker at apex on inner 

 side ; pulvilli pale orange, tips of claws black. Wings yellowish- 

 grey, more yellowish at base ; lialteres pale orange. 



Length, 10 mm. 



Eedescribed from a single <^ in the Britisli Museum from 

 Csehtelek, Bihar [Hon. M. C. Rothschild). A moderately common 

 European species. 



299. Myopa nigriventris, sp. nov. 



S . Head bright yellow, deeper and more orange :)n frons and 

 upper part of occiput; two triangular brown marks (with their 

 apices towards the vertex) near the upper angles of the eyes ; a 

 blackish transverse streak on frons just above antennfe ; proboscis 

 blackish-browMi ; antennae, including the arista, orange, though 

 the closely-set bristles on the 2nd joint make it appear brown ; 

 frons and occiput distinctly pubescent ; there is one post-ocellar 

 bristle. Thorax chestnut-brown, whole dorsum pubescent, black 

 except at side margins ; greyish dust reflections on hind margin ; 

 whitish reflections on humeri and pleurae, especially on lower part 

 of sternopleura ; metanotum black. Abdomen black ; 2nd segment 

 reddish-brown towards sides, and a little white-dusted on the hind 

 margin except in the middle; tip of abdomen dark reddish-brown, 

 a little grey-dusted. Legs orange ; coxae, especially the 1st pair, 

 with whitish reflections ; femora with a broad median black ring, 

 which leaves the tips and more or less of the base pale, and is 

 much narrower on the under side; there is a subapical black ring 

 on the tibiae, more or less interrupted ; upper part of outer sides 

 of all the tibiae with whitish reflections ; pulvilli and basal half of 

 claws orange, apical half of the latter black. Wings yellowish- 

 grey, costal cell more yellowish ; halteres orange. 



Length, 7 mm. 



Described from the type r? from Mnssoorie, ix.l916. Ti/jye 

 sent by Mr. T. B. Fletcher to the British Museum. Two other 

 d 6 from Kashmir, 5000-6000 ft., iv-v. 1901 (Mirse), have the 



