XVIII. NEW AND INTERESTING DIPTERA 

 FROM THE EASTERN HIMALAYAS. 



By E. Brunetti. 



(Plate xiv). 



Since Lord Carmichael became Governor of Bengal he has 

 employed several collectors to collect the insects and other smaller 

 fauna of the country round Darjiling. His Excellency has gener- 

 ously arranged to distribute the specimens between several 

 Museums in India, AustraUa and Great Britain, and to present sets 

 of certain groups to the specialists who are describing them. I 

 have been asked by Dr. Annandale of the Indian Museum, 

 in which the types will be retained, to work out the Diptera, 

 amongst which a number of new and rare species are represented. 



Unfortunately most of the specimens have been preserved ni 

 spirit, and others in papers, so that their condition is by no means 

 satisfactory and for this reason several which almost certainly 

 belong to undescribed species cannot be utilized as types. The 

 proportion of new and uncommon species, however, is sufficiently 

 large to make further collections from the same districts eminently 



Nearly a hundred species are included in all, but, mainly 

 owing to the inferior condition of the specimens, it has been 

 possible to determine with tolerable certainty only between thirty 

 and forty already known, to which must be added the fourteen new 

 ones described here. , . , ^ 



Unless otherwise stated, the species noted simply from 

 "Singla" were collected in April, 1913, and those noted as 

 ^' Darjiling," in May, 1912 ; the latter at from 1000 to 3000 ft. 

 altitude. 



MYCETOPHILIDAE. 



Sciara indica, Walk. 



One from Senchal, v-13 ; it has the whole sides of the abdo- 

 men, except at the base, conspicuously red. 



Leia nigra, Brun. 

 One 2 , Senchal, v-1913. 



