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



Chloroidia, gen. nov. 



Genotype, Chloroidia flavifrons, sp. n. 



Facial carina not developed ; epistoma Phasia-\\ke , rather 

 narrow ; arista ciliate on both sides nearly to tip ; apical cell very 

 narrowly open, almost closed, the tip of cell narrowed , male eyes 

 nearly contiguous, the frontalia pinched out ; male hypopygium 

 extremely large, that of female large and broad ; macrochaetae 

 bristle-like on margins of last two segments ; front tarsi of female 

 widened, those of male not so ; intermediate abdominal segments 

 of male extremely shortened, the two hypopygial segments greatly 

 enlarged and almost as long as the four preceding segments ; fifth 

 sternite of male with spine-brush, the sixth sternite excessively 

 broadened and with spine-brushes on each side. 



Chloroidia flavifrons, sp. nov, 



Length of body, 5 to 5'5 mm. ; of wing, 4 to 4-5 mm. One 

 male, Mergui, Lower Burma (W . Doherty) ; one female, Chalakudi, 

 Cochin State, Sept. 14-30, 1914 (F. H. Gravely). 



Head light golden pollinose, parafrontalia more deeply golden ; 

 frontalia and large spot on each cheek black ; antennae and palpi 

 fulvous-yellow. Facial plate and facialia not pollinose, shining, 

 tinged black in centre of clypeus and on vibrissal angels. Thorax 

 and scutellum a very bright burnished emerald-green, thinly yel- 

 lowish pollinose. Abdomen nearly as bright green ; in female 

 shading to cupreous at tip and more or less blackish on disk of 

 tergum, in male dusky on tergal disk. Male hypopygium wholly 

 purplish-brown ; that of female nearly black , with some purplish 

 tinge. Legs subfulvous ; front femora bright green, others more 

 black ; tarsi darker distally. Wings faintly infuscate, or at least 

 so on costa and tip. Tegulae tawR3^-whitish to yellowish. 



Holotype in Ind. Mus., female ; allotype, male. 



Strongyloneura, Big. 



The main characters of this genus as interpreted by me have 

 been already given. My reference of the following species to 

 Strongyloneura is provisional. They seem almost certainly, how- 

 ever, to be congeneric with the genotype {prasina, Big. — Japan), 

 which I cannot identify positively in material but which, accord- 

 ing to the description, is a member of the Rhyncomya group with 

 strongl}^ rounded fourth vein. The supplementary characters 

 given by Brauer {Sitz. Ak. Wiss., math.-nat. CI., CVIII, 519) also 

 agree, 



Strongyloneura nepalana, sp. nov. 



Length of body, 8-5 mm. ; of wing, nearly 7 mm. One 

 female, Thamaspur, Nepal, Feby. 18-20, 1908. 



Metallic green ; slightly cupreous, especially on abdomen. 

 Parafrontalia, parafacialia and cheeks pale golden pollinose. Fron- 



