30 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vol. IX, 



Described from a single cf from Mundali (9000 ft.), Dehra 

 Dun, 12-V-10. In the Indian Museum. 



Empimorpha rufithorax, mihi, sp. nov. 

 cf Darjiling. IvOng. nearly 4 mm. 



Head. — Occiput, frons, which is moderately wide, with parallel 

 linear edges, and face all black, with a few black bristles. Vertex 

 with three distinct large reddish ocelli, with a pair of strong 

 divaricate bristles between the upper ones. Antennae yellow, 3rd 

 joint elongate onion shaped, with a long closely pubescent black 

 arista, ending in a small bare black pointed bristle. The first two 

 antennal joints with some short bristles near their tips. Probos- 

 cis about the height of the head, the basal half yellowish, the 

 apical half blackish ; palpi very long, longer than proboscis, some- 

 what broadened and flattened at the tips, with a few yellowish 

 hairs. 



Thorax. — Bright light yellowish brown, with three black 

 dorsal stripes, of which the median one is of moderate width, the 

 outer ones are broad enough to extend over the lateral margins, 

 and all three attain the anterior margin of the dorsum. A few 

 bristly hairs about the roots of the wings and much smaller ones on 

 the dorsal stripes. Sides a little more yellowish than the dorsum, 

 with which latter the scutellum and metanotum are concolorous, 

 the scutellum bearing a few stiff black hairs on the hind margin; 

 the metanotum a little dusky in the centre. 



Abdomen. — Dark blackish brown, with black pubescence. 

 Genital organs dark grey, with a little pubescence. Belly similar 

 to dorsal side of abdomen. 



Legs. — Coxae and femora yellowish ; tibiae dark brownish 

 yellow, tarsi dark brown. All the legs shortly pubescent ; tibiae 

 with two rows of five or six long stiff hairs. 



Wings. — Pale brown; stigma vague, very elongate, a little 

 darker brown. Halteres yellowish brown. 



Described from a single type cf in the Indian Museum taken 

 by me at Darjiling, 29-v-io, on the hillside. 



HILARA, Mg. 



bares, Walk., I^ist Dipt. Brit. Mus., iii, 491 (1859). East 

 India. 



N.B. — This is the only previously recorded species of Hilara 

 from the East. 



Hilara compacta, mihi, sp. nov. 



0" Western Himalayas. Long, barely 2^ mm. 



Head. — Blackish ; frons rather narrow. Antennae with grey- 

 ish reflections viewed from certain angles. Proboscis about as 

 long as height of head; shining Wack above; labium, which is 



