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very elongate conical 3rd joint, which has a very long thick curved 

 minutely pubescent style. 



Thorax. — Dark brown, lighter at the sides. Scutellum and 

 metanotum concolorous with dorsum. 



Abdomen. — Dark brown, but a little lighter than the thorax; 

 very sparsely pubescent; genitalia inconspicuous, belly brownish 

 yellow. 



Legs. — Long and slender, uniformly pale j^ellowish except the 

 blackish tarsi. Fore coxae twice as long as the others, but one- 

 third the length of the fore femora. The whole of the femora are 

 approximately equal in length. The tibiae are very little shorter 

 than the femora, the hinder pair a little incrassated at the tips. 

 The tarsi are about as long as the tibiae, blackish. All the femora 

 possess a few isolated long stiff hairs on .the under side, and the 

 middle femora have one on the front side near the tip. All the 

 tibiae with one such stiff hair on outer side a little before the first 

 third of the length, and a few shorter ones on hinder side of 

 middle tibiae, also a single one on the hinder side of the hind 

 tibiae at about one-third of the length. 



Wings. — Very pale grey, very iridescent. The 3rd longitudi- 

 nal vein widely forked beyond half its length; prongs of upper 

 branch of 4th longitudinal vein issuing wide apart from the discal 

 cell, the latter being large, long, pointed basalh^ about equal in 

 length to the 2nd posterior cell. The ist basal cell a little longer 

 than the 2nd, which latter is about as long as the anal cell. 

 Halteres yellow. 



Described from a unique 9 taken by Mr. Gravely, 25-iii-io, 

 at Kurseong. In the Indian Museum. 



N.B. — The peculiar nature of the antennae ought to easily 

 distinguish this species from all other Indian Empidae. 



HEMERODROMIA, Mg. 



oricntalis, Meij., Tijd. y. Ent., liv, 330, pi. xix, 25 & (1911). 

 (Microdromia). Java. 



PTILOPHYLLODROMIA, Bezzi. 



Ann. Mus. Hung., ii, 344 (1904). 

 biroi, Bezzi, loc. cit.. 345. Papua. 



Chelipoda flavida, mihi, sp. nov. 



cf 9 Chota Nagpur, E. Himalayas and Lower Burma. 



Long. 2 mm. 



Head. — Yellowish, three ocelli on the black vertical triangle, 

 which also carries two divaricate long bristles Frons moderately 

 broad. Occiput with four long curved bristles placed equidis- 

 tantly. Seen from behind, the occiput has a greyish tinge, as has 



