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denly; male eyes nearly contiguous, the frontalia pinched out or 

 only very narrowly showing ; male hypopygium not very large, claws 

 moderately elongate; macrochaetae bristle-like, much as in Polle- 

 nia ; short straight pile of thorax black , longer on pleurae ; no 

 crinkled yellow pile; front tarsi normal in male; palpi subcylin- 

 drical; parafacialia moderately wide, more or less pilose above. 



Polleniopsis pilosa, sp. nov. 



lycngth of body, 5 to 8 mm. ; of wing, 5 to 8 mm. Two males : 

 Darjiling, 6,000 ft., Sept. 21, 1908 {E. Brunetti) ; and Purneah, 

 Bihar, August 5, 1907 (C. Paiva). 



Brown to blackish, more or less silvery or ashy poUinose. 

 Head pale brownish, the front darker; pollen silvery to ashy. 

 Palpi fulvous to fulvorufous ; third antennal joint subfulvous; 

 frontalia light to dark brown. Mesoscutum with five black vittae, 

 the middle one obsolete before suture in posterior view ; the two 

 inner ones before suture narrow in posterior view, but forming 

 one wide vitta in anterior view. Abdomen tessellate much as in 

 Pollenia rudis. Legs brown. Wings nearly clear, faintly tinged 

 with smoky-yellowish especially on costa. Tegulae yellowish- 

 smoky. 



Holotype in Ind. Mus, Paratype, No. 21031 U.S. Nat. Mus. 



