1918.] E. Brunetti: Oriental Tijmlidae. 321 



flava, id., he. cit., p. 512 9 (1912). Darjilino-. 

 montana, id., loc. cit., p. 513 (^ (1912). W. Himalayas. 

 Types of all three species in Indian Museum. 



AMALOPIS, Hal. 



glabripennis, Bmn., Fauna Brit. hid. Dipt., p. 515 ^ (1912). 



Darjiling and North-East Indian Frontier. 

 elegans, id., loc. cit., p. 516 ^ $ (1912). Kurseong. 

 Types of both species in Indian Museum. 

 As regards the right of Amalojns or Tricyphonn, Zett. to stand Ber- 

 groth's recent argument ^ appears just and I agree with it, but it seems 

 inadvisable to change generic names that give their names to families, 

 sub-families or sections, and for that reason it is retained here.^ 



Amalopis spectralis, sp. nov. 



(Plate vii, fig. 4.) 



^. Darjiling. Long. 6 mm. 



A very peculiar whitish ghost-like fly. 



Whole body pale yellowish ; thorax whitish, indistinctly shewing 

 a darker surface below ; proboscis and palpi dark ; antennae snow- 

 white, the minute similarly coloured pubescence making determination 

 of the exact number of joints impossible. Neck rather long. Abdomen 

 a little darker towards tip ; genitalia large and conspicuous, pale yellow- 

 ish-brown with long pale hairs ; a large curved dorsal plate ; a very 

 elongate, ventral, curved plate turning upward at the tip, which is bifid ; 

 claspers of moderate size. 



Legs wholly nearly snow-white except tips of femora and of tibiae 

 broadly black ; tarsi tips a little brownish. 



Wings clear, very iridescent ; veins whitish. 3rd vein issuing from 

 the very short space between the anterior cross vein and the fork of the 

 2nd vein, and parallel with the branches of the latter, so that both sub- 

 marginal cells and the 1st posterior are about subequal. Basal section 

 of 2nd vein, marginal cross vein, and a line formed of the basal portion 

 of upper branch of 2nd vein, the anterior and posterior cross veins, 

 also the veinlet forming outer side of discal cell, very narrowly but deeply 

 sufTused. Halteres yellowish- white. 



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

 Pashok, Darjiling District, 3,000 ft., 26-v— 14-vi-16 {Gravehj). 



ULA, Hal. 



javanica, Alex., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XLIX, p. 176 (1916). 

 Java. Type in U. S. Museum. 



1 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) XI, p. 583 (1913). 



2 Mr. Bergroth draws attention to the use in my Fauna volume of Pleciomyia in 

 place of Crapitula, Gimm. in the family Bibionidr e. This was not an arbitrary proceed- 

 ing on my part, as he assumes. The description of Crapitula is not accessible in India 

 and the Kertesz catalogue gives it as a synonym of Plecia. Recognising the distinct- 

 ness generically of melanaspis it appeared necessary to erect a new genus for it. 



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