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blackish-brown; 2ncl joint with very short bristly hairs on upper 

 side; 3i-d joint brownish-yellow, with tip soiiiewtiat elongate, 

 bowed in front * ; arista indistinctly two-jointed, slightly thickened 

 at base : back of head grey-dusted. Thorax : doisuni blai-k, dull, 

 grey-brown t : pleur.-e grey-dusted; scutellum shining black: 

 metanotuin and hind margin ot thoracic dorsum with silvery-white 

 reflections. Abdomen o]\\e-hvo\yu, only the 5th segment black ; 

 1st segment white-dusted, the sides in certain lights with silvery- 

 white reflections. Hypopygium rather large, without furrow. 

 Legs yellow ; femora, to extreme tips, black ; tibife with a median 

 dark ring ; last tarsal joint brownish ; femora and tibiae whitish- 

 dusted : hind femora shining on itnier side. Wings rather 

 brownish, very narrow, especially at the base ; 3rd costal seg- 

 ment only one-fourth as long as the 4th ; both together nearly 

 as long as 5th ; anterior cross-vein placed opposite middle of 

 3rd costal segment, in the first sixth of the discal cell. Halteres 

 yellow. 



Length, 2 mm. ; wings 2*2 mm. 



One (5 , Colombo, 28. ii. 1902. Tyj^)e in Hungarian Museum. 



Family SYRPHID.E. 



Genus PARAGUS, Lntr. (ante, p. 30). 

 The followino; species has to be added to the Indian Fauna. 



Paragus tibialis, Fin. t 



Fipiza tibiolis, Fallen, Dipt. Suec, Syrph. p. 60 (1817). 



Par(«iiis tibialis, Schiner, Kaun. Austr. i, p. 257 (186l') ; ^'errall, Brit. 



Flies, Syrpli. p. 150 (liJOl). 

 Paragus politiis, \Viedem<iiiii, Auss. Zweifl. ii, p. 89 (1828). 



(S . Head : face yellow, with a black middle line extending from 

 between antemife to upper mouth-edge, this line being rather 

 widened about its lower part; face shining, ])roduoed near its 

 lower part to a distance equal to quite one-third the width of the 

 eye; pubescence whitish, and equn! everywhere except on middle 

 line ; jowls small, with whitish i)ubesccnce, which is contiinied up 

 the entire back of the head ; vertex elongate, shining black, with 

 inconspicuous blackish pubescence : eyes touching for only a small 

 space, with shori inconsjucuous whitish pubescence, which has no 

 tendency to run into stripes ; basal antennal joints black, the 

 rather long 3rd joint brown with a tendency to become yellow 

 beneath; this joint is three times as long as deep; arista quite 



* " Mit zietnlich langor, nach vorne gebeugtcr Spitjse." 



t Literal translation. Kertd-z seems to contraclii't himself here. 



J For a number of synonyms, see Kertusz, Cat. Dipt, vii, p. 7. 



