1917-] C. H. T, TowNSEND : Indian Rhiniinae. 195 



Rhynchomyiopsis, gen, iiov. 



Genotype, Rhynchomyiopsis indica, sp. n. 



Facial carina not developed ; epistoma Phasia-VikQ ; arista 

 practically bare ; apical cell practically closed in margin quite far 

 before wing-tip ; weak bristles on margins of third and anal seg- 

 ments ; front tarsi not widened ; palpi phylliform ; female vertex 

 wider than eye ; no fronto-orbitals in female save small reclinate 

 ones ; no preacrostichals ; all head and other macrochaetae very 

 weak ; frontals stopping at base of antennae ; costal spine strong ; 

 two sternopleurals, and only one postsutural. Male not known. 



Rhynchomyiopsis indica, sp. nov. 



Length of body, 6 mm. ; of wing, 4'5 mm. One female, 

 Karachi, Sind, Western India, July 28, 1889 {dimming). 



Head, scutellum, abdomen and legs rather pale fulvous, in- 

 cluding frontalia, antennae and palpi; the abdomen subrufous 

 from hind half of second segment to tip. Parafrontalia, parafaci- 

 alia and cheeks very thinly silvery ; three polished subround 

 black spots near eye on each side ; the largest about middle of 

 parafacialia, one on front half of parafrontalia, the smallest one 

 on cheeks. Thorax light metallic gold-green, the humeri fulvous. 

 Wings scarcely infuscate. Tegulae nearly white. 



Holotype in Ind. Mus. 



Thoracites, B.B. 



Genotype, Musca abdominalis, Fab. — East Indies. 



Facial carina absent; epistoma Phasia-Vike, very narrow, the 

 vibrissal angles constricting the facial plate far above oral mar- 

 gin ; arista long-plumose to tip ; apical cell narrowly open ; male 

 eyes not contiguous, about or fully as far apart as length of second 

 antennal joint ; male hypopygium rather large, claws very elon- 

 gate ; macrochaetae strong, suberect, on margins of last two seg- 

 ments, discal and marginal on sides of second and third segments, 

 marginal on sides of first segment; palpi phylliform, but rather 

 narrow; very strong, long costal spine; female with very narrow 

 frontalia, male with same scarcely or not at all showing ; female 

 with two strong proclinate fronto-orbitals and one reclinate, male 

 with none of either ; female anal segment with close-set row of 

 strong marginal spines, in addition to the regular marginals which 

 thus become practially submarginal. 



Thoracites abdominalis, Fab. 



Twenty-one specimens, both sexes, from Ceylon, Puri and 

 Madras. The species may be known by the green thorax and ful- 

 vous to rufous abdomen, with the under edges of the intermediate 

 abdominal segments more or less widely black. 



