igi3.] E. Brunetti : Diptera. lyi 



Philaematomyia insignis, Aust. 



Dibrugarh, 17-19-xi-ii and Sadiya, 25-xi-ii, some taken by 

 " sweeping Artemisia," seven specimens in all, both sexes. A 

 very widely distributed species of "bloodsucking fly," found in 

 India, Ce5'lon, Sokotra, Cyprus, Palestine, Senegal, Congo Free 

 State, Burma, Assam, Borneo. 



A'.^.— Of the remaining true Muscids there are 5 of a species 

 of Lucilia, cf $ ; and several of both sexes of a species of Mtisca 

 allied to doniestica, L/. 



ANTHOMYINAE. 



Ophyra caerulea, mihi, sp. nov. 



cf $ N.E. Frontier of India. Long. 4 mm. 



Head.— V.yes not quite touching in o» , for some Httle dis- 

 tance ; frons dead black ; face black, with a greyish shimmer if 

 viewed from certain directions ; the eye margins with a row of 

 bristles along the distance of greatest contiguity, that is. from the 

 lowest point of the small triangular frons to the brilliant white 

 spot above the root of the antennae. This spot is semicircular in 

 outline on its upper side and pointed below. Antennae blackish, 

 not reaching mouth opening, without greyish shimmer ; proboscis 

 and palpi blackish. 



In the 9 the frons is one- third the width of the head, black- 

 ish, but with a brownish yellow tinge. (This may be due to 

 the head having been moistened) 



Thorax.Shimng indigo blue, the colour less bright on the 

 sides in the region below and behind the wing base, and below the 

 shoulder where it is more or less dirty brown-tinged. A very dis- 

 tinct small cream-yellow spot on the humerus.' Dorsum of 

 thornx with rather thick blackish brown hair. Scutellum con- 

 colorous, a ]^air of post-basal bristles and a pair of long conver- 

 gent apical ones. 



.4 /j^/omt';;.— Rather narrow, shining indigo blue ; when viewed 

 from in front a little brownish about the base. Belly pale dirty 

 brown. 



Legs.— Bull yellowish brown, pubescent ; tarsi black, the inner 

 sides of the femora lighter {:')} 



Wings.— Clear, veins yellowish ; tegulae whitish with short 

 white fringe*; halteres black. 



Described from a single c^ and 9 from Rotung, 1400 ft., 

 3E-xii-ii. 



I In the ^ the humeri are darkened, but this may be due to accident, the 

 front part of the specimen shewing signs of having been wetted. 



i This is so in the If example, but may be individual variation, or perhaps 

 the more normal colouration, or eveti a sexual difference, though this latter seems 

 unlikely. 



