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of the segment; the 2nd pair of spots not attaining the margin. 
All the spots bear a little yellowish white hair, which also occurs 
at the posterior angles of the segments and about the tips of the 
abdomen. ‘The dark portions of the surface covered with almost 
microscopic black pubescence. Belly dull aeneous, with some 
pale yellowish hairs. 
Legs.—Femora aeneous black, with rather thick yellowish 
pubescence on hinder and outer sides, and microscopic pubescence 
of the same colour on the remainder of the surface. Tibiae 
aeneous black, rather broadly pale reddish brown at base. Tarsi 
blackish, emarginations slightly reddish brown; hind metatarsi 
blackish on disc, reddish brown towards sides and on under- 
side. 
Wings grey, stigma blackish, inconspicuous; halteres pale 
yellowish. 
Described from a single perfect @ taken by Capt. Evans, 
R.E., at Simla in August 1914, and generously presented by him, 
with other diptera, to the Indian Museum. 
Eumerus sexvittatus, mibi, sp. nov. 
2 Western Himalayas. Long. 8 mm. 
Head.—Black, rather dull; vertex and upper part of frons 
with short black hairs; ocelli small, dull, dark reddish; lower 
part of frons with yellowish grey hair. Face, seen from below, 
whitish grey, with whitish grey hair. Back of head black, with 
a little short whitish hair on the eye orbits. Proboscis black, 
reddish brown towards tip. Antennae black, rather large, lower 
part of 3rd joint white-dusted. 
Thovax.—Black, rather dull, with very short yellowish brown 
hait covering all the dorsum and scutellum, and extending over 
the sides below the shoulders. Sides blackish. 
A bdomen.—Black, dull, 1st segment only with a little aeneous 
tinge, 2nd, 3rd and 4th segments with a pair of diagonally placed 
whitish elongate spots, each beginning near the centre of the 
segment, but well separated from one another, and reaching to- 
wards but not attaining the hind corners. The abdominal pubes- 
cence is black on the black parts and yellowish on the spots; 
also towards the upper corners of the abdomen and at the sides. 
Legs.—Black, with yellowish grey or whitish grey pubescence. 
Basal half of anterior tibiae (and, apparently occasionally, the 
extreme tips of the femora), reddish brown, the colour on the 
hind pair of legs much restricted; middle tarsi reddish brown, 
except towards tips. Hind femora greatly incrassated as usual, 
hind metatarsi considerably incrassate. 
Wings.—Pale grey, stigma brownish; signs of a very slight 
brownish suffusion across the middle of the wing. Halteres yellow. 
Described from one Q from Bhowali, Kumaon District, 5700 
ft.. October 1909 [Imms]. In the Indian Museum. 
