198 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vol. XIII, 



Thirty-five other specimens, both sexes, from Calcutta, Sik- 

 kim and Assam (Sylhet), appear to be this species, but show fourth 

 vein often bent rather suddenly and not evenly rounded. The 

 parafacial hairs are quite uniformly blackish. 



It is quite impossible to decide the distinctness of these speci- 

 mens and those mentioned under nepalana without investigation 

 of the forms in their native habitats and dissections of fresh ma- 

 terial. The genitalia can not be satisfactorily prepared in the ma- 

 terial before me. 



Strongyloneura coerulana, sp. nov. 



Length of body, 8"5 mm. ; of wing, 675 mm. One female, 

 Port Blair, Andaman Is., Feb. 15 to Mch. 15, 1915 (5. Kemp). 



Differs from viridana as follows : Face and antennae rather 

 testaceous ; the pollen of head grayer, less golden. Disk of abdo- 

 minal tergum broadly purplish-blue ; the scutellum same colour, 

 also the humeri and the central hind portion of mesoscutum. 

 Wings clear, fourth vein broadly rounded. Tegulae nearly pure 

 white. Parafacial hairs rather blackish. 



Holotype in Ind. Mus. 



Mctalliopsis; gen. nov. 



Genotype, Meialliopsis setosa, sp. n. 



Facial carina weak, flat, separating antennae; epistoma Pha- 

 sia-like, rather narrow ; arista very short-plumose or long-pube- 

 scent about two- thirds way ; apical cell widely open ; macrochaetae 

 marginal on last two segments, with irregular discals on anal seg- 

 ment; front tarsia little widened; palpi phylliform, moderately 

 wide; female front rapidly widening from vertex, parafrontalia 

 thickly bristled outside of frontal row : parafacialia hairy above. 

 Male unknown. 



Metalliopsis setosa, sp. nov. 



Length of body, 7 (abdomen recurved) to 8-5 mm.; of wing, 

 7 to 7'5 mm. Three females: Kurseong, Eastern Himalayas, 

 5,000 ft., July 6, 1908 (A^. Annandale) ; andSiliguri, base of Eastern 

 Himalayas, July 18-20, 1907. 



Head rufofulvous, the parafrontalia showing obscurely green 

 beneath the yellowish pollen ; a black spot on parafacialia ; third 

 antennal joint and extreme tips of palpi dusky. Thorax and 

 scutellum bright metallic green, with thin coat of silvery pollen ; 

 some thin long yellow pile on pleurae and humeri. Abdomen fulvo- 

 rufous, with black median vitta ; anal segment metallic cupre- 

 ous-green. Edge of third segment and spot on side of second 

 segment metallic greenish. Legs brownish-rufous ; femora black 

 with metallic green tinge, especially front ones. Wings and te- 

 gulae yellowish-infuscate. 



Holotype in Ind. Mus. Paratype, No, 21029 U.S. Nat. Mus. 



