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normal Legs with a dense row of long closely placed dark brown 

 or blackish elongate scales on the upper and lower sides of all the 

 femora and tibiae, except the upper side of the fore femora. The 

 middle and hind legs have a few but much smaller such scales on 

 the upper side of the metatarsi. Only the unsealed parts of the 

 legs bear a little black pubescence. Wings pale brown, stigma 

 black, halteres black. 



Described from several 5 9 collected by Mr. E. E. Green on 

 the Horton Plains, Ceylon, May 1911. 



Type (and some other of the specimens) in the Indian 

 Museum. 



Empis inconspicua, mihi, sp. nov. 



cf Northern India. Long. 2^ mm. 



Head. — Blackish; antennae black; palpi a little yellowish. 

 Proboscis twice the height of the head, yellow above, black below. 



Thorax. — An intermediate shade between light and dark grey, 

 with comparatively long and rather stiff hairs. Four long stiff 

 hairs on scutellum, which, with sides of thorax and metanotum are 

 concolorous, but just below shoulders a lighter grey. 



Abdomen. — Concolorous, rather broad and flat, with parallel 

 sides, and black soft pubescence. Genitalia blackish, with reddish 

 brown bisinuate terminal hooks. Belly blackish. 



Legs. — Uniformly dark brown, pubescent; middle tibiae with 

 four long stiff hairs on outer side ; hind tibiae with long hair on 

 hinder side. 



Wings. — Pale grey; stigma brownish, ill defined, much elong- 

 ated and reaching the costal margin. Halteres yellow. 



Described from two cf cf in the Indian Museum from Lucknow, 

 i7-i-o8 (type) and g-ii-oS. Sent by the Lucknow Museum. 



Rhamphomyia himalayana, mihi, sp. nov. 



? Western Himalayas. Long, barely 3 mm. 



Head. — Black. Occiput moderately dark grey, with black 

 hairs. Frons wide, dark grey. Three distinct ocelli on vertex, 

 with a pair of divaricate bristles between the two upper ones. 

 Antennae black ; proboscis blackish, about as long as the head. 



Thorax. — Moderately dark ash grey, with two median very 

 narrow whitish lines from the anterior margin. Dorsum with 

 short blackish pubescence. Sides, scutellum and metanotum 

 concolorous. 



Abdomen. — Dark grey, with short blackish pubescence ; belly 

 similar. Genitalia very elongate, terminating in two unusually 

 long finger-like lamellae. 



Legs.— Dark brown, with blackish pubescence; femora and 

 tibiae with a row of stiff hairs; hind femora with thick short black 

 hair above and dark brown scales on lower side ; hind tibiae with 

 thicker and more bristly black hair. 



