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with a fringe of short bright yellow hairs on posterior margin. 

 The 3rd and 4th segments mainly blackish with very short 

 bright yellow hairs, the sides of the former obviously but not 

 conspicuously reddish brown ; the tip of the abdomen similarly 

 coloured. Belly blackish, whitish at base, the genitalia orange. 



Legs. — All coxae black ; remainder of anterior legs brownish 

 yellow, the tibiae with some whitish reflections. Hind legs black, 

 knees brownish yellow, and tarsi tips yellowish, the tibiae and 

 tarsi with minute whitish pubescence. Underside of hind tarsi 

 brownish yellow. 



Wings. — Pale grey, stigmatic cell yellowish. A blackish 

 infuscation at tip of wing from about the tip of the ist longi- 

 tudinal vein to just below the 3rd vein. The appendix in the ist 

 posterior cell very distinct. Halteres bright lemon-yellow. 



Described from a single 9 from Dibrugarh, 17-19-xi-ii. 



N.B. — This peculiar genus is only previousl}^ known from 

 Australia, Mexico, Central America and Brazil. All the species 

 must possess a more or less vespiform appearance from the 

 remarkable resemblance in the 3rd antennal joint being bent back 

 as is usualh^ the case in Aculeate Hymenoptera. 



MUSCIDAE. 

 1st Division CALYPTRATA. 



TACHININAE. 



Of this sub-family six species are present, represented by 

 eight specimens, but there are no means available for determining 

 them. Two specimens of a species of Sarcophaga are present. 



MUSCINAE. 



Of Muscidae verae six species are represented. 



Rhinia limbipcnnis, Macq. 



Four 9 9; Sadiya, 23-xi-ii. Occurs in various parts of India 

 and Assam. 



Rhynchomyia (s. lato). 



Four 9 9 of a Rhynchomyia in the wide sense, from Sadiya, 

 23-28-xi-ii and Kobo (400 ft.), r-xi-ii. 



Pyrellia violacca, Macq. 



Eight specimens, representing both sexes, of what I have 

 always regarded as this species ; Sadiya, 28-xi-ii. It is commonly 

 distributed in India. 



