158 Records of the Indian Museum. [Voiv. VIII, 



fringe of white hairs, weakest behind the vertex, where the hair 

 is darker. Face very pale lemon yellow, shining, bare, becoming 

 nearly whitish towards the mouth, above which is a little white hair 

 on each side A black shining median line on the face from 

 immediately below root of antennae to the mouth. The middle 

 part of the face in profile a little protuberant. Antennae blackish 

 brown, 3rd joint more or less reddish brown below at base, arista 

 dorsal, placed at about one- third of the length of the joint. Pro- 

 boscis shining blackish brown. 



Thorax. — Shining black, covered rather closely with black 

 socketed hairs, which give a punctured appearance to both the 

 dorsum and the scutellum, which latter is concolorous. Sides 

 black, a little conspicuous white hair in front of the wing roots. 



Abdomen. — Black or blue black, shining; about the hind half 

 or a little more or less, bright reddish brown; the whole surface of 

 the abdomen with white hairs extending over the sides. The tip of 

 the abdomen is sometimes black, or the reddish part may be black 

 at the sides. Belly generally a replica of the upper side 



Legs. — Coxae and basal half of femora black, shining, apical 

 part of femora brownish ^-ellow, shading into the lemon yellow 

 tip, this colour extending over about the basal third of the tibiae, 

 the remainder being brownish yellow. Tarsi brownish yellow, a 

 little golden yellow pubescence below the hind pair. 



IFi/f^s. — Clear, venation normal, halteres pale yellowish white. 



Described irom a single cf from Sadiya, 23-ix-ii, and also from 

 four cP- cf in the Indian Museum ; the type from Mangaldai, Assam 

 — ^Bhutan Frontier (i or 2-i-ii) [Kemp]; the others from Dhikala, 

 Gharwal District, base of Western Himalayas, lo-iii-io; Bijrani, 

 Naini Tal District, 19-iii-io; Peradeniya, Ceylon, 15-vii-io. 



Paragus serratus, Fab. 



Two a' cf from Sadiya, 23-xi-ii, and Dibrugarh, 17 — 19-xi-ii, 

 respectively. A common and widely distributed species in South 

 Asia, India, Sokotra, Ceylon and Java, and probably in many 

 other parts of the Orient also. 



Chilosia apicalis^ mihi, sp. nov. 



$ N.E. Frontier of India. Long, y^ mm. 



Head. — Eyes with grey pubescence; the frons at just above 

 the antennae, nearly one-third the width of the head, narrowing 

 to the vertex, where it is only two-thirds as wide. Whole head 

 aenous, with darker and with greyish reflections. Vertex and frons 

 with black hairs, also the large transverse callosity just above 

 the antennae, which reaches from eye to eye and is rather im- 

 pressed in its middle. Facial bump moderately projecting, with a 

 little yellowish grey hair on each side of the mouth opening. 

 Proboscis blackish, with large reddish brown labella. Underside 

 of head with a little white hair. Antennae reddish brown, upper 



