1913.] B. Brunetti : New Indian Empidae. 39 



they would not have been erected by me upon such slender 

 material. 



Drapctis variegata, mihi, sp. nov. 



& Burma. lyong. 2^ mm. 



Head. — Occiput and frons shining black ; eyes as in brevior. 

 First two joints of the antennae dark brown, 3rd black, very 

 elongate conical, with long apical arista. Proboscis short, brown- 

 ish yellow, with yellow hairs. 



Thorax. — Dark shining brown on anterior part, with three 

 black, not very obvious stripes (with^ however, linear edges), all of 

 which begin on the anterior margin. Posterior half of thorax more 

 or less blackish. Scutellum 3'ellowish with blackish dorsum and 

 two long curved apical bristles ; metanotum shining brown. 



Abdomen. — Dorsum with very sparse pale yellow hairs. Basal 

 third (except the extremely narrow black actual base) yellowish ; 

 middle third blackish ; apical third yellowish or brownish yellow. 

 Belly yellowish (in one example somewhat blackish across the 

 middle). 



Legs. — Wholly bright yellow ; coxae brown, tarsi hardly, if 

 any darker. 



Wings. — Pale yellowish grey, iridescent, veins and halteres 

 yellowish. 



Described from two cf cf from Rangoon, 25-ii-o8, taken by 

 Dr. Annandale. A very marked and handsome species. In the 

 Indian Museum. 



COLOBONEURA, Mel. 



Tr. Am. Ent. vSoc, xxviii, 229. 

 argyropalpa, Bezzi, Ann. Mus. Hung., ii, 358 (1904). Papua. 



PLATYPALPUS. 



abdominalis, Wied., Auss, Zweifl., ii, 12 {Tachydromia) (1830). 



South China. 

 chionochaeta, Bezzi, Ann. Mu^. Hung.,ii, 359 (1904). Papua. 



Platypalpus orientalis, mihi, sp. nov. 



2 Darjiling. Long. 3 — 4 mm. 



Head. — Occiput and frons covered with close pale yellowish 

 grey tomentum, the frons with almost parallel sides, the ocelli 

 placed just below the vertex, with two proclinate bristles between 

 them and with two similar bristles just behind the vertex, each 

 of the latter placed in a minute black spot on the surface. Two 

 rows of distinct yellow hairs behind the eyes, below the vertical 

 margin, and some on the lower part of the back of the head. 

 Antennal basal joints bright reddish yellow, 3rd joint darker brown, 

 elongate onion-shaped, with normally formed arista. Face grey 

 with pale grey hairs which give it a whitish reflection when viewed 

 from certain directions. Proboscis about half the height of the 



