igi;.] E. Brunetti : Diptcra of the Simla District. 95 



segment, broader on anterior than on posterior margin; whole 

 dorsal surface of abdomen with short black bristles. Belly cinere- 

 ous grey with shorter black pubescence. 



Legs brownish yellow, entirely covered with short black stiff 

 hairs; tips of femora with traces of a dark brown rhig ; tips of 

 tibiae, whole of front tarsi and last joints of posterior tarsi black. 



Wings pale grey ; anterior margin (except costal cell) with a 

 moderately dark brown band, the colour limited by the 2nd longi- 

 tudinal vein up to middle of wing, beyond which it extends a little 

 behind that vein ; it is sharply delimited a little before the wing 

 tip, leaving the tips of the submarginal and ist posterior cells 

 practically clear. The colour from the tip of the 2nd longitudinal 

 vein dying away gradually hindward. In this darker grey part 

 are traces of two or three paler spaces in the neighbourhood of the 

 posterior cross-vein. Anterior cross-vein just perceptibly diffused. 

 Halteres brownish yellow. 



Described from a single perfect specimen taken between Kufri 

 and Phagu, 21-V-16 {N . Annandale and S. Kemp), in the Indian 

 Museum . 



vSubfamily SAPROMYZINAE. 



Several species of the genus Sapromyza have been collected, 

 but not yet identified, The Indian Museum collection in this 

 group is at present being worked out by Prof. Bezzi. 



Subfamily TRYPETINAE, 



Vidalia cervicornis, sp. nov. 



cf 9 . Simla. Ivong. 4-5 mm. 



Head brownish yellow, frons sometimes a little deeper; face 



and underside of head whitish yellow; ocellar triangle black. 



Proboscis, palpi and antennae 

 brownish yellow, arista black, micro- 

 scopically pubescent. Eyes green. 

 Occiput brownish yellow, with four 

 thin brown perpendicular lines ; the 

 inner pair short, the outer ones 

 reaching upper corners of eyes and 

 sometimes bifid. 



The cr" has the frons produced 

 on each side in the form of horns 

 (generic character), and only the 

 upper pair of fronto-orbital bristles 

 occur on the frons, the remainder 

 being placed on the horn-like appen- 

 '^ ^ dages, one horn bearing five, the 



^ ,..,,. other four, whilst the tip of each 



riG. 2. — \ laalia cervicoy/ns,' sn, , , i i • ^i 



nov. head. bears two such bristles. 



The ? has five long fronto-orbi- 

 tal bristles (two upper, three lower), the lower pair decussate. 



