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prominence very slight. Some erect brown hairs on vertex. Frons 
and face with sparse whitish soft hairs. Viewed from above, a 
just perceptible whitish dust spot about the middle of the frons, 
contiguous on the eye margin each side, and the edges of the 
face with vague whitish reflections in certain lights. Upper 
mouth border distinctly produced!; proboscis short, brownish 
black. Antennae brownish yellow, under side of 3rd joint much 
paler. Eyes of exactly the same vertical height as the head, 
dark brown, very shortly but rather thickly pubescent ; occiput 
slightly produced behind the vertex, aeneous black, with a fringe 
of short white hairs. 
Thorax shining cyaneous black with a faint violet tinge, 
scutellum concolorous, both with sparse very short whitish pubes- 
cence ; some rather long whitish hairs at sides, anteriorly. 
Abdomen of three obvious segments only, the first very 
narrow, the 2nd, 3rd and 4th subequal, the 5th barely visible ; 
all wholly cyaneous black, with short soft pale pubescence, belly 
similar. 
Legs black; knees, tibiae tips and anterior tarsi brownish 
orange, hind tarsi darkened above. Hind femora and all tibiae 
with a little pale pubescence. 
Wings almost clear; stigma pale yellow; halteres reddish 
brown. 
Described from two ¢ 2; Gangtok, Sikkim, 6150 ft., 
g-ix-09, type; and Kurseong 10 —26-ix-og. In Indian Museum 
Chrysogaster (Orthoneura) indica, mihi, sp. nov. 
@ Punjab. Long. 6 mm. 
Head.-—-Vertex very small, with a little dark brown hair. 
Eyes contiguous for a moderate space, about half the height of 
the frons, dark brown, bare. Frons shining blue black, with light 
brown or greyish hairs; antennal prominence slight. Face shining 
blue black with a little whitish hair, mouth border well produced. 
Proboscis and palp blackish brown. Antennae rather dark 
brown, 3rd joint ovate, arista almost basal. Occiput blackish, not 
at all produced beyond upper half of eye and only slightly so on 
lower half, which bears a fringe of white hairs. 
Thorax cupreous, with brownish or yellowish hairs ; scutellum 
aeneous, similarly pubescent. Sides of thorax cupreous, with a 
little greyish hair. 
Abdomen cupreous, with moderately thick soft whitish 
pubescence, which is thicker at the sides and on the belly. 
Legs wholly black, with the usual amount of greyish pubes- 
cence, undersides of tarsi reddish brown. 
Wings pale grey, stigma yellowish, halteres orange. 
Described from a unique ~ in the Indian Museum from the 
Kangra Valley, 4500 ft., xi-o9 [Dudgeon]. 
« A generic character according to Verrall, 
