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elongated cone, joints not easily separated, apical half of flagellum 

 with very attennated joints, of which the verticillate hairs are very 

 long. Palpi black. 



Thorax with dorsum somewhat sharply delimited from lower part, 

 rather bright yellowish-grey, microscopically tomentose. A transverse 

 row of four narrow vittae in front of suture, also an anterior pair towards 

 front margin ; a slightly curved similar pair just behind suture, Scu- 

 telluni and metanotum concolorous, latter blackish in middle. 



Abdomen blackish with a rather broad median brownish-yellow stripe 

 throughout its length. Genitalia brownish-yellow. 



Legs yellowish, coxae pale whitish-yellow ; femora browner towards 

 tips with a rather narrow apical snow-white ring. 



Wings yellowish-grey ; small blackish suffusions over bases of 2nd 

 and 3rd veins and tip of 1st vein, anterior and posterior cross veins, proxi- 

 mal and distal sides of discal cell, and tips of all veins. A much fainter 

 sub-apical short stripe from costa reaching 1st posterior cell ; costal 

 cell distinctly yellowish ; halteres brownish-yellow with darker tips. 



Described from a single perfect (^ in the Indian Museum from the 

 North Canara District, S. W. India, II' — 26-X-16 (Kemp). 



The yellow colour of this species, with the spotted thorax and snow- 

 white tipped femora make this a very conspicuous one, 



Dicranomyia, sp. 



A (^ in the Indian Museum from Mormugao, Goa, ix-lQ {Kemp) may 

 represent a new species or an abnormality. It has the upper branch 

 of the 4th longitudinal vein simple, the lower branch forked, aiid the 

 discal cell coalescent with the 2nd posterior. 



Dicranomyia pictipes, sp. nov. 



^ $. S. W. India. Long. 3i mm. 



Head and appendages all black. 



Thorax. — Dorsum cinnamon-brown with narrow median pale stripe 

 from about the suture, carried uninterruptedly over scutellum and meta- 

 notum to basal segments of abdomen. Lower part of thorax all white, 

 except a large oval black spot on the sternopleura. 



Abdomen blackish-brown, a narrow median pale stripe of irregular 

 length on basal segments. Belly yellowish, emarginations of segments 

 blackish, genitaha black. 



Legs. — Coxae white ; femora brownish yellow, tips very narrowly 

 blackish ; tibiae and tarsi snow-white to tips, former with two narrow 

 dark brown rings placed just before the first and the second thirds of 

 the length. 



Wings grey, iridescent, veins very distinct, venation normal. Discal 

 cell absent ; anterior branch of 4th vein forked, posterior branch simple. 

 Anterior cross vein and posterior cross vein both in a hue with the base 

 of the open discal cell, which is coalescent with the 3rd posterior cell. 

 Stigma rather large, dark brown, over marginal cross vein, sometimes 

 elongated downwards as far as 1st posterior cell. A small suffusion 

 over base of 2nd vein, sometimes continued narrowly along the cros§ 



