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it. These spots vary from sub-triangular to semicircular. The 

 spots on the disc are very small, though varying in size, and there 

 is usually a row just in front of and another just behind the 

 2nd, 3rd and ith longitudinal veins; those in the anal cell being 

 the largest. Halteres dull pale yellow. 



Described from 10 specimens; Kobo, 400 ft., 3-xii-ii [type), 

 Sadiya, 28-xi-ii, Rotung, 25-xii-ii. 



N .B. — One specimen only appears to be a male, but is in too 

 bad a condition to set up as the type. 



Sciomyza scptemlineata, mihi, sp. nov. 

 (PI. vi, fig. 13). 



9 N.E. Frontier of India. Long. 2| mm. 



Head. — Very pale yellow ; frons from vertex to antennae 

 broadly dark brown, leaving a rather wide ocular orbit each side. 

 Two conspicuous round dark brown spots above mouth border. 

 Proboscis pale yellow, palpi black. Antennal ist and 2nd joints 

 black, 3rd pale yellow, slightly brownish at tip, arista black. 

 Back of head yellowish. Bristles normal ; a row of short bristles 

 behind each eye. 



Thorax. — Brownish yellow ; a broad median dark brown stripe 

 from anterior to posterior margin, carried continuously over 

 scutellum to its tip. Three lateral dark brown stripes each side 

 of thorax ; one from the shoulder, passing on inner side of wings, 

 the second from just below the shoulder to the wing base, the 

 third across the pleurae. 



Abdomen.— ^\^ck\s\i, pubescent, bristles on hind borders of 

 segments, belly blackish. 



Legs. — Uniformly pale whitish yellow ; bristles normal, as in 

 S. strigata, Meij. 



Wings. — Blackish brown, with pale spots as follows : a round 

 spot below tip of 2nd longitudinal vein, not touching margin of 

 wing ; a squarish one near tip of 1st basal cell, extending a little 

 above 3rd vein ; a squarish one over 3rd vein just beyond middle 

 of wing ; a semi-oval marginal one at tip of ist posterior cell, and 

 three smaller ones arranged more or less in the form of a triangle, 

 on distal half of same cell; a round one in middle of 2nd pos- 

 terior cell ; a rather large squarish one towards end of discal cell, 

 extending above the 4th vein. Anal cell clearer. Halteres dirty 



grey. 



Described from a unique 9 ; Rotung, 1400 ft., 24-xn-ii 



SAPROMYZINAE. 



Lonchaea montana, mihi, sp. nov. 



rf Assam and N.E. Frontier of India. Long. 3 mm. 



Head.— ^rons i to i width of head ; two frontal bristles on 



upper part, from the ocellar spot : a pair of long converging 



