94 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vor. XIII, 



genitalia concolorous, in cf globular, hairy, rather large; in 5 

 smaller and normal. 



Legs yellowish, tips of tarsi black ; hind tibiae a little darkened 

 just be3'0nd base. Fore femora with a row of about 6 long bristles 

 on upper side, a row of long thin hairs, curved at tips, on inner 

 side, and long stifi black hairs on under and outer sides. Middle 

 femora with a row of black bristles on inner side, two rows of 

 closely placed small black spines on under side, with several very 

 long hairs towards base. Hind femora the same, but the small 

 bristles on under side more numerous, and the long basal hairs 

 absent. Tibiae uniformly pubescent, subapical bristle conspicu- 

 ous; apical spur on middle pair. Some longer stiff bristles on under 

 side of fore tarsi at base. 



Wings pale grey ; halteres orange. 



Described from several specimens in good condition from 

 Phagu, 9,000 ft., i8 — 21-V-16 (A^. Annandale and 5. Kemp). 



Subfamily SCIOMYZINAE. 



Sciomyza costalis, sp. nov. 



Simla District. Ivong. 5| mm. 



Head cinereous grey, a bare, moderately broad olive grey 

 stripe on each side of frons from upper corner of eye, the stripes 

 uniting a little below the lowest ocellus, the colour then becoming 

 merged in the more yellowish lower part of frons, which is covered 

 with very short bristly hairs. A moderately distinct short 

 brownish streak placed diagonally towards each lower corner of 

 the frons; the lower margin itself with some silvery white shim- 

 merings here and there. Ocelli distinct, red. Upper sides of 

 frons, and the ocellar triangle with small bristly hairs. A brown- 

 ish yellow band across the face at level of antennae, with a black 

 spot filling the space between the antenna and the eye margin. 

 Face, underside of head and mouth opening pale yellowish, nearly 

 bare except for short bristly hairs around the latter and extending 

 towards the occiput. Antennae brownish yellow, 3rd joint paler 

 below, first two joints with a whitish shimmer seen from above ; 

 3rd joint as long as ist and 2nd together ; arista black, distinctly 

 plumose on upper and under sides nearly to tip. Proboscis 

 brownish yellow; 2 fronto-orbital, 2 ocellar, i vertical and 2 post- 

 vertical bristles. 



Thorax cinereous grey, thickly beset with very short black 

 bristles ; mesopleura and propleura pale yellowish grey ; rest of 

 pleurae nearly ash grey. Sternopleura with minute soft hairs ; 

 I humeral, i presutural, 2 notopleural, 3 supra-alar, i inter-alar 

 just behind the suture with a much smaller one just in front of it ; 

 a weak propleural and 2 strong pteropleural. Scutelluni with i 

 basal, placed near the side margin, and 1 apical. 



Abdomen cinereous grey, with a broad angular dorsal black 

 stripe composed of a large subquadrate spot in the middle of each 



