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Thorax. — Blackish, shortly pubescent with stiff short hairs, 

 (bristles, mostly broken off). One or two weak dorso-central ones 

 remain and a strong pair on posterior margin. Scutellum, 

 metanotum and sides of thorax blackish, the first with the usual 

 basal and apical pair of strong bristles. 



Abdomen. — Blackish, shortly and apparently barely pubes- 

 cent. 



Legs. — Coxae brownish yellow, marked with blackish ; femora 

 black brownish yellow at base and tips ; tibiae and tarsi brownish 

 yellow, hind tibiae with a blackish indistinct ring towards tip ; 

 hind metatarsus dilated, blackish at base. Middle tibiae with 

 several strong but quite conspicuous bristles. 



Wings distinctly yellowish, a little darker anteriorly ; halteres 

 yellow. 



Described from a single specimen from Kalek, 3800 ft., 

 29-xii-ii. 



Limosina subtinctipennis, mihi, sp. nov. 



Assam. Long, i mm. 



Head. — Frons blackish grey, a little reddish brown above the 

 antennae ; three or four small dorso-frontal bristles ; four pairs of 

 orbital bristles, situated as in L. magna, but the two lower p drs 

 relatively smaller ; a pair of proclinate ocellar bristles. Antennae 

 dark brownish yellow, 2nd joint, relatively large, as large as 

 3rd, which is oval at the tip with a circlet of bristles ; arista 

 pubescent. 



Thorax. — Black with short stiff hairs ; three bristles below 

 shoulder, a very strong supra-alar bristle an:l one below the wing; 

 several stiff bristly hairs on hinder part of dorsum, the dorso- 

 central bristles (if present) apparently weak. Scutellum with a 

 post-basal pair set on the margin, a much smaller inner pair and 

 a strong apical pair. 



Aldomen. — Black, dull, bare, except for a few soft side hairs. 

 Belly similar. 



Legs mainly yellow ; femora, especially the hind pair, more or 

 less brown, except at base and tip ; tibiae with two more or less 

 indistinct equidistantly placed blackish brown rings, which are 

 quite distinct on the hiud legs. Hind metatarsus emarginate near 

 base so that it appears as a small thumb. Middle tibiae with 

 numerous strong spines of different lengths, and a stronj; pre- 

 apical one ; middle tarsi with first two joints bearing a circlet of 

 spines at tip, the middle metatarsus with an additional bristle in 

 the middle on inner side. Hind tibiae with only stiff hairs of 

 different lengths. 



Wings.— QrQ.y , a slightly clearer transverse streak just beyond 

 discal cell, which cell, with the basal cells, are also slightly clearer 

 The veins with a suspicion of suffusion ; halteres yellow. 



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



