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distinct ash grey hind border, which is always narrowest in 

 middle, this border bearing some yellow or yellowish white pubes- 

 cence ; sides of 2nd and 3rd segments with whitish hairs ; 

 remainder of dorsum and at sides with short black pubescence; 

 7th segment shining chestnut brown ; genitalia the same, marked 

 with yellow, fairly prominent ; belly black, all segments except 

 ist with well-defined bare hind margins. 



Legs. Femora black, with depressed white pubescence and 

 a short row of bristles in middle of underside ; tibiae brownish 

 yellow, darker at tips, fore pair with three (inner row wanting), 

 posterior pairs with four rows of strong spines ; tarsi brownish 

 yellow or dark brown, joints paler at base, shortly pubescent. 



Wings pale grey, normal, halteres black. 



Described from a unique ? in the Indian Museum from Theog, 

 vSimla District, 8,000 ft., i-v-07 (A''. Annandale). 



This species bears some resemblance to my flavolineata. 



There is an undetermined 9 , a species of Thereva, from 

 Phagu, 18 — 21-V-16, in the Indian Museum. 



Family SCENOPINIDAE. 

 Sccnopinus fenestralis, L. 



For description see \'erral!, Brit. Flies, V (Stratiomyidae), p. S97- 



Kasauli, 6,300 ft., 15-V-08 ; Barogh, 5,000 ft., io-v-09; lo-v-io. 



Family EMPIDAE. 

 Subfamily EMPINAE. 

 Empis rostrata, Brun. 



Rec. Ind. Mits. IX, p. 25. 

 Theog, I-v-07, a unique 9 . 



Pachymeria marginata, sp. nov. 



9 . Simla District. Long. 5 mm. to tip of ovipositor. 



Head. Frons ash grey, with parallel sides ; ocellar triangle 

 large, black ; palpi bright orange. Antennae all black, 3rd joint 

 considerably broadened at base, style joints distinct. Occiput 

 bluish grey, with bristles and stiff hairs. 



Thorax moderately dark grey with a slight yellowish tinge. 

 Two dark median, well separated narrow stripes from anterior 

 margin to well beyond middle of thorax. An outer stripe each 

 side, foreshortened, enlarged into an irregularly shaped and 

 rather indefinite elongated large spot behind the suture. Dorsum 

 covered with short black hairs except on the stripes. Pleurae con- 

 colorous with black hairs ; a bunch of bristly hairs on each hume- 

 rus. Two macrochaetae just in front of the wing base, and a 



