206 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vor. XI, 
Vertical margin, occiput and lower part of head aeneous black, 
but the facial eye margins are continued narrowly round the eyes 
to the vertex, bearing a fringe of yellowish grey hairs, and 
similarly coloured hairs also cover the lower part of the head 
below and behind the eyes. Antennal first two joints brownish 
yellow, 3rd large, broadened, rounded, darker and duskier brown ; 
arista concolorous, bare. 
Thorax dark aeneous black, shining, covered rather closely 
with very short brownish yellow pubescence, which, viewed at a 
low angle from in front, appears uniform and continuous over the 
who!e dorsum, but viewed from behind appears to form three 
longitudinal stripes, the median one narrowly divided in the 
middle and attaining the front margin; the exterior ones fore- 
shortened. Sides of thorax concolorous, with very sparse and 
short, brownish yellow hair. Scutellum concolorous, with short, 
brownish yellow pubescence and a single pair of well separated 
apical long black bristles. 
Abdomen shining lead colour with almost microscopic pale 
yellow pubescence; a dull black broad band, half the length of 
the segment, on the hind margins of 2nd and 3rd segments, 
narrowed to a point at the sides of the segment, and very slightly 
notched in the middle in front. These transverse black bands 
are best seen from behind. 
Legs dark reddish brown: femora with a moderate amount 
of pale yellow pubescence ; extreme tips of all femora, basal half 
of all tibiae, tips of middle tibiae and first three joints of middle 
tarsi, brownish yellow, the posterior margins of these three joints 
blackish. Under sides of fore and hind tarsi with golden brown 
pubescence. 
Wings very pale grey, stigma pale yellow, halteres bright 
orange. 
Described from a single @ in the Indian Museum from Simla 
7-v-10 [Annandale]. 
The shining lead colour of the abdomen will easily distinguish 
this species. 
Chilosia ? grossa, Fln. 
A o and @ taken at Binsar, Kumaon District, 28-v-12, 
by Dr. A. D. Imms, sent to me for examination appear to be this 
rather widely distributed European species. 
Unfortunately no specimens are at hand for comparison, but 
the only discrepancies from Verrall’s description are as follows. 
The antennae are dull dark reddish brown, not blackish; the 
vertex and frons have an admixture of black hairs in the pubes- 
cence, which is not the casein grossa; the tibiae are mainly 
black (not orange) in both sexes, with the base broadly, and 
the tip much less broadly orange, the black part beginning always 
distinctly before the. middle, whilst of grossa Verrall says 
‘« blackish ring just below the middle.’’ The halteres are wholly 
orange yellow, not with blackish knobs. Inthe ? the 4th and 
