gS Records of the Indian Museum. [Voi.. XIII, 



Thorax brownish yellow, pleurae pale, major part of dorsum 

 gold-dusted and with a whitish shimmer seen from in front. Chaeto- 

 taxy: i humeral, i praesutural, i dorso-central, i praescutellar, 

 3 supra-alar, 2 notopleural, 2 mesopleural, i pteropleural, i 

 sternopleural. Scutellum, r basal, i apical bristle. 



Abdomen shining chestnut brown, a little darker here and there, 

 pubescent, with bristly hairs along sides. Belly concolorous. 



Legs very pale yellow, tarsi tips a little brighter yellow ; fore 

 femora with seven long bristly hairs on underside ; middle femora 

 with some smaller bristly hairs towards tip. 



Wings pale grey; costal cell nearly clear, yellowish for a 

 short distance before tip of ist vein. A long brown streak from 

 near base of wing, the upper edge reaching a little above the 2nd 

 vein, meeting the costa at tip of 2nd vein and extending round 

 tip of wing to tip of 3rd vein ; the lower edge of the streak en- 

 croaching a little on basal half of discal cell, thence extending 

 only a little below the 3rd vein, leaving the ist posterior cell with 

 a broad brown tip, so that approximately the lower half of that 

 cell is clear except at base and tip ; 3rd and 4th veins and 

 posterior cross-vein broadly though rather indistinctly suffused 

 with yellow. Basal part of wing, including anal ceil, brownish. 

 Halteres brownish yellow. 



Described from a unique specimen in the Indian Museum 

 taken between Phagu and Kufri, 21-V-16 (N. Annandale and S. 

 Kemp). 



Acidia rioxaeformis^ Bezzi. 



Mem. Ind. Miis. Ill, p. 1^3. 



Simla, 20-vii-ii. 



Oxyna sororcula, Wied. 



Aiiss. Ziveifl, II, p. 509 (Trypefa). 



Kufri, Simla Hills, 8,000 ft., ii-v-09. 



Paralleloptcra pterocallacformis, Bezzi. 



Mem. Ind. Mus. Ill, p. 155, pi. x, fig. 58. 



Dharampur, r4-iv-o8 (A^. Annandale); x-ii (F. M. Howlett). 



Tephritis zonogastra, Bezzi. 



Mem. Ind. Mus. Ill, p. 164. 



Simla, x-08 (F. M. Hewlett). 



Subfamily ORTALINAE. 

 Chloria] aenea, F. 



For description see Wied.,''Aiiss. Zavelf. II, p. 566. 

 Ulidia aenea, Auct. 



Phagu, 18 — 21-V-16. A widely distributed bright green metal- 

 lic fly, throughout the Bast. I have taken it in the PhilHpines, in 

 Rangoon and various parts of India. 



