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Abdomen dark brown, belly a little more reddisb ; ovipositor brown- 

 ish yellow. 



Legs yellowish, tips of femora and tarsi barely darker. 



Wings very pale grey ; stigma oval, small, darker grey ; halteres 

 brownish. 



Described from a unique $ from the Pusa collection, Cherambadi, 

 Wynaad, x-13 {Howleft) " in jungle." Type presented to the British 

 Museum by Mr. T. B. Fletcher. The species is easily recognised by its 

 clear wings (except for the grey stigma) and the black spots on the 

 thorax. 



Geranomyia flaviventris, sp. nov. 



(Plate, vii, fig. 2.) 



^. Darjiling. Long. 4| — 5 mm. 



Head blackish-grey ; antennae and proboscis black ; palpi placed 

 at about middle of latter, which is about as long as the head and thorax 

 together. 



Thorax brownish-yellow on dorsum, with three longitudinal blackish 

 stripes. At the suture the median one becomes very narrow, but con- 

 tinues more broadly over scutellum and metanotum. The outer stripes 

 broaden behind the suture into a pair of large dark spots. Lower part 

 of thorax dull brownish-yellow ; hinder part of pleurae and the metano- 

 tum wholly blackish-grey. 



Abdomen black with short pubescence ; belly rather bright yellow ; 

 genitaha conspicuous, 2nd joint of claspers of considerable length. 



Legs blackish, coxae and more or less of the femora yellowish. 



Wings pale grey with darker grey spots, a larger one over stigma, 

 its centre extending downwards into the submarginal cell ; three smaller 

 elongate ones placed transversely occur along the costa anterior to the 

 larger stigmatic spot ; these are approximately equidistant, and extend 

 more or less into the 1 st and 2nd basal cells and submarginal cell. A 

 similar spot over tip of 2nd longitudinal vein ; the " cross veins " in one 

 specimen are just perceptibly suffused ; a small grey spot at tip of 7th 

 vein. All these spots apparently variable in size and intensity. Hal- 

 teres black, stems yellowish at base. 



Described from three (^ ^ m the Indian Museum from Pashok, Dar- 

 jiling District, 3,000 ft., 14-vi-16 {Gravely). 



The general appearance of this species is very hke iridens. 



GERANOMYIA Halid. and APOROSA, Macq. 



Kertesz gives the latter as synonymous with the former in his cata- 

 logue, and Speiser has doubted their distinctness, but Bergroth points 

 out that the true distinction is the position of the palpi, placed far from 

 the tip of the proboscis in (jeranomyia, and close to the tip in Aporosa. 

 Upon re-examining all my oriental species of Geranonvyia they prove to 

 truly belong to that genus, the palpi in all of them being placed at about 

 the middle of the proboscis. The latter is about as long as the head and 

 thorax together in all the species except circipuncfata, in which it js 

 barely half that length, 



