246 Records of the Indian Museum. [ VoL. 2 
SERICOMYIA, Mg. 
Sericomyia eristaloides, Brun. 
Described from a 2 (Rec. Ind. Mus. viii, 167 2 , 1913), from 
near Rotung, 2200 ft., 20-xi-r1 [Kempj. A unique specimen, in 
the Indian Museum. 
Temnostoma nigrimana, mihi, sp. nov. 
(Plate xiil, fig. 15). 
@ Western Himalayas. Long. 16 mm. 
Head wholly bright yellow with concolorous tomentum and 
a little yellow hair along eye margins below antennae. Antennal 
prominence, facial bump and mouth opening a little more orange. 
Oral orifice, proboscis and a short black stripe from lower corner 
of eye reaching half way to end of snout, black. Antennae 
orange, Ist joint and basal half of 2nd black, arista dull orange. 
Vertex reddish brown with long black hairs in front and brownish 
yellow ones behind. Occiput greyish, with a fringe of yellow 
hairs behind eyes, becoming longer on underside of head and 
hinder part of cheeks. 
Thorax slightly shining black, a trace of a pair of narrow 
median grey stripes towards anterior margin; humeri conspicu- 
ously bright yellow, the anterior margin on inner side of them 
dull reddish orange. An elongate brownish orange spot on the 
side of the dorsum just above and in front of the wing, reaching 
to the similarly coloured posterior calli. A rather small oval 
bright lemon yellow spot on propleura. Pubescence of disc of 
dorsum rather thick, black; bright yellow on humeri and on 
pleura below the lemon-coloured spot; reddish on the marginal 
spot above the wings and on posterior calli, where there are black 
hairs intermixed. Scutellum reddish brown, the base black nearly 
to the middle, long yellow hairs on anterior half and brownish 
black hairs on posterior half. A large bunch of long reddish . 
orange hair on mesopleura. 
Abdomen black; Ist segment with bright brown hair at sides; 
2nd with hind border reddish brown, the colour widest towards 
the sides, a bright chrome yellow, moderately narrow band in 
front of the middle; 3rd with a similar orange band in front of 
the middle and another on posterior margin; 4th similar to 3rd 
but the hinder band much wider; genitalia wholly reddish brown. 
Pubescence on dorsum of abdomen mainly bright yellow, be- 
coming brown on the black parts of the surface; mainly black 
on 4th segment and genitalia. Belly black, with a rather narrow 
yellowish band on posterior margin of segments. 
Legs principally orange; coxae, and a broad stripe on under 
side of hind femora, black; a black streak on front side of middle 
femora; apical half of fore tibiae and the fore tarsi wholly, 
