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IQI5.] E. BRUNET?I: Notes on Ontental Syrphidae. 247 
black. Pubescence on legs mainly yellow, bright lemon yellow 
short pubescence on basal parts of tibiae. 
Wings yellowish grey, anterior part brownish yellow as far 
inwards as to fill both basal cells. Halteres yellow. 
Described from 2 o# @ in the Indian Museum from the Garh- 
wal District, 11,000 ft., vi-14. 
There is a considerable general resemblance at first sight 
between this species and my Muilesta ferruginosa, which is not 
rare in the Kumaon District. 
Arctophila simplicipes, mihi, sp. nov. 
(Plate xiii, figs. 16—r8). 
9 Western Himalayas. Long. 12—13 mm. 
Head.—Frons blackish aeneous, with a transverse groove at 
base of antennal prominence, which is of the same colour; both 
frons and prominence covered with rather long yellowish hairs, 
intermixed on vertex with black hairs. The dull reddish ocelli 
placed flat on the vertex. Face blackish, with whitish tomentum 
and microscopic pubescence, and some long soft white hairs along 
inner orbit of eyes. A nearly bare irregular median stripe on face. 
Cheeks and underside of head blackish, with soft comparatively 
short yellowish hairs. Proboscis blackish. Antennae dull dark 
brown, 3rd joint with greyish tomentum, arista brownish yellow, 
with 16 or 17 long hairs along the entire upperside and about 12 
shorter hairs on apical half of underside. Occiput blackish grey 
with a little minute vellow pubescence; some long brownish yellow 
hairs behind vertex and yellowish grey hairs on underside. 
Thorax.—Black, barely shining, with a pair of median moder- 
ately narrow, barely perceptible greyish stripes and a narrower 
one between them ‘The whole dorsum and the scuteilum covered 
with thick long canary yellow pubescence, except narrowly on 
anterior margin. The pubescence extends thickly over the 
vicinity of the mesopleura. 
Abdomen moderately shining black, with thick yellowish 
pubescence on anterior corners, and bright red pubescence on 
major (apical) part of last segment and on the concolorous red 
genitalia. On the rest of the dorsum the pubescence is black, 
short and very fine; a little longer on hind border of segments 
and obviously long and thick on the sides. Belly black, with 
short sparse yellowish hairs, hind margin of segments narrowly 
pale, last segment red. 
Legs black, tarsi reddish; femora mostly covered with short 
black pubescence, except on upper side; rest of legs with minute 
black pubescence, some short yellow pubescence on outer side 
of middle tibiae. 
Wings grey, a moderately wide dark brown band from middle 
of anterior margin to a little beyond the 4th longitudinal vein 
Halteres blackish ; squamae brownish, with fringe of brown hair. 
