igo Records of the Indian Museum. [Vol. VIII, 1913.] 



Oscinis ' obscuripcs, mihi, sp. nov. 



Assam and N.E. Frontier of India. lyong. 2 — 2| mm. 



Head. — Occiput dark grey, frons on upper part blackish, with 

 a large triangular shining black spot reaching from vertex nearly 

 to antennae ; frons below this spot bright yellow. Head below 

 antennae brownish yellow, rather variable in shade. Antennae 

 yellowish, upperside broadly dark brown, arista dark : proboscis 

 darkened. 



Thorax, scutellum and metanotum wholly blackish grey. 



Abdomen. — Blackish grey, underside paler, sometimes nearl}^ 

 whitish. 



Legs. — Yellowish, femora mainly blackish, leaving a broad 

 yellow part at base and a narrow yellow ring at tip. Tibiae and 

 tarsi mainly blackish, the former always pale at base for a greater 

 or less distance ; underside of tarsi paler, and hind tarsi some- 

 times yellowish on upper side also. 



Wings clear ; halteres whitish. 



Described from six specimens from Dibrugarh, 17 — 19-xi-ii, 

 and one from Kobo, 9-xi-ii. 



Amongst the remainder of the Acalyptrata there is an Ephy- 

 drid, a Geomyiid, two Drosophilids and about half a dozen other 

 species that owing to their iniiffereat condition it is impossible to 

 classify generically ; all these except one species of (?) Droso- 

 phda being represented by single specimens only. 



PUPIPARA. 



Cyclopodia horsefieldi, Meij. 



Two specimens taken on a flying- fox {Pleropus medius, 

 Temm.) ; Sadiya, 24-xi-ii. 



I There is no justification for altering this generic name to Oscinella, Beck, 

 as Osctms has stood unchallenged since 1804. 



