II. NEW INDIAN EMPIDAE. 

 By E. Brunetti. 



Over fifty new species of Empidae are described in the present 

 paper, all the types of which (except four in the Pusa collection) 

 repose in the Indian Museum. Two new genera, allied to Cyrtoma, 

 are established. The previously known oriental species are also 

 listed here under their respective genera. 



The family is not known to be rich in species in the tropics, 

 and most of the new ones herein described come from places of 

 some little altitude. The natural home of the Empidae is the 

 temperate region of both Europe and North America. 



The previously recorded species are listed at the head of each 

 genus. 



Sub-family HYBOTINAE. 

 HYBOS, Meig. 



brachialis, Rond., Ann. Mus. Gen., vii, 446 (1875). Borneo, 

 gagatinus, Big., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (1889), p. 127. Assam, 

 geniculata, Wulp, Term.es Fuzet., xx, 137 (1897). Ceylon, 

 bczzii, Kert., Lc, xxii, 175 (1899). Papua, 

 papuanus, id., I.e., 175 (1899). Papua. 



bisetosus, Bezzi, Ann. Mus. Hung., ii, 324 (1904). East India, 

 pallipes, Meij., Tijd. v. Ent., liv, 323 cf 5 (1911). Java, 

 setosa, id., I.e., ^24 9. Java. 



Hybos nigronitidus, mihi, sp. nov. 



cf 5 Darjiling district. Long. 3^ mm. 



Head.— Black ; occiput a little dark grey tinged ; proboscis as 

 long as height of head, palpi nearly as long. 



Thorax.—Shmmg black, beset with microscopic reddish hairs. 

 Sides of thorax a little greyish but not at all conspicuously so. 

 Two or three stiff bristly hairs about the base of the wing and one 

 stiff hair on each humerus ; a few of unequal length placed in a 

 row on each side of the median line, and at least two of these 

 (the two hindermost) of considerable size ; two also at tip of the 

 concolorous scutellum. Both thorax and scutellum bear irregularly 

 placed softer hairs. 



Abdomen.— Shining black ; in certain lights with a little greyish 

 reflection, a little black pubescence in cf ; in 2 the hairs brown 

 and more numerous. Genitalia shining black. 



