IgI5.] E. BRUNETTI: Notes on Oniental Syrphidae. 233 
Belly mainly black, except on 2nd and 3rd segments, which 
are yellowish. 
Legs.—Coxae black, with a little pale greyish hair, anterior 
pair grey-dusted; remainder of anterior legs wholly bright pale 
yellow. Hind femora greatly incrassated as usual, reddish brown : 
a few short black spines of unequal length on under side towards 
the tip, the whole limb with short soft yellow hair. Hind tibiae 
well curved, yellowish, with a tolerably distinct subapical black 
band with ill defined edges, and a tendency to a sub-basal nar- 
rower and still less definitely marked band. ‘The whole limb with 
very short yellowish hair, but on the inner side is a thick row of 
very short and stiff black hairs; hind tarsi vellow. Claws, basal 
half bright yellow, apical half black. 
Wings.—Pale yellowish grey, stigma brownish yellow; hal- 
teres bright yellow. 
Described from one @ in the Indian Nee etl from Bhowali 
(5700 ft.), Kumaon District, taken by Mr. A. D. Imms, June 1909. 
Subfamily MILESINAE. 
Myiolepta himalayana, mihi, sp. nov. 
(Plate xiii, figs: 125/13). 
#7 2 West Himalayas. Long. 7—8 mm. 
Head, 7 .—Eyes bare; contiguous for only a short space, leav- 
ing a rather small vertical triangle, which is shining black, with 
some yellowish grey hairs. Sides of frons narrowly grey-dusted, 
the whole of the upper part of the face also, that is to say, the 
part immediately below the rather conspicuously produced anten- 
nal prominence, which latter is shining black, the extreme fron- 
tal edge narrowly orange. Facial bump very large and conspi- 
cuous, the central knob distinct, not cut away below (in profile), 
but the mouth opening less projecting. The whole protuberance 
shining black. The lower sides of the face with a little grey dust, 
and a few stiff long hairs near lower corner of eyes. Anten- 
nal third joint rounded, the whole organ pale vinaceous, with a 
hoary bloom, arista bare, orange at base. Back of head shining 
black, ash grey behind lower part of eyes, where it is considerably 
developed, and bearing there a fringe of yellowish hairs. An are 
of short bristly brownish black hairs behind the vertex. 
In the 2 the frons, at the level of the antennal prominence, is 
one-third the width of the head, the frons and face being mainly 
shining black but narrowly grey-dusted at the sides, and with a © 
little stripe of very short greyish pubescence along the sides from 
the cheeks to the mouth opening. There isa little grey hairin 
front of the lower corner of the eyes as inthe 7. Eye margins are 
present in both sexes as in Chilosia. 
Thorax and scutellum aeneous black, with short yellowish grey 
pubescence; anterior margin of dorsum, including humeri, a little 
