248 Records of the Indian Museum. (Vou. XI, 
Described from several 2 2 in the Indian Museum from the 
Garhwal District, Kumaon, 11,000 ft., 20-v-14 to 20-vii-14. 
Arctophila, according to Schiner, its founder, should have 
considerably thickened hind femora and curved hind tibiae, but 
Verrall in describing A. mussitans,F.,says, “hind femora rather 
thick, hind tibiae slightly curved’’, so, as the character is not so 
pronounced, the present species is referred to this genus though 
the hind femora and tibiae are but little thicker or more curved 
respectively than the others. The genus is, however, otherwise 
sufficiently characterized. Only three other species are known, 
two from Europe and one from North America. 
MILESIA, Latr. 
Meijere records M. macularis, W., from Sukabumi, Java, one 
o¢ [Kramer]; and I have noted a specimen from Sikkim which 
may be a variety of this species (Rec. Ind. Mus., ix, 268). 
Meijere also records gigas, Macq., from the environs of Semarang, 
1000 metres [Jacobson]; and variegata, Brun., from Sikkim, one 
a. Among the diptera sent to the Indian Museum by Lord 
Carmichael were 3 gigas{@ @) from Sikkim, v-12 and Singla, 
Darjiling, iv-13; and a good series of both variegata, 7 @ and 
balteata, Kert. 7 ? (with which my himalayensts is synonymous, 
as announced by Meijere), from both these localities. I have 
seen three 2 @ from the same localities, in the same collection 
which may be doriae, Rond. WM. ferruginosa, sp. nov., is described 
by me in Rec. Ind. Mus., ix, 268, @ , pl. xiv, 12, from the Eastern 
and Western Himalayas. 
Milesia sexmaculata, mihi, sp. nov. 
# South India. Long. 23 mm. 
Head.—The eyes touching for a distance equal to one-third 
of the height of the frons which is yellowish; in the form of an 
elongate isosceles triangle with yellowish hair; the ocelli red, 
inconspicuous. Eye facets in front for a short space just percep- 
tibly larger than the others. Face moderately projecting with 
brownish yellow tomentose dusting, becoming paler yellowish 
about the mouth, the latter black, cheeks black. Occiput dark 
grey with pale yellowish grey margin, with a row of short grey © 
hairs behind the eyes. Proboscis black, shining, projecting, two- 
thirds as long as the height of the head. Antennae dull ferru- 
ginous brown with concolorous style. ; 
Thovax.—Dorsum dull black; shoulders and a lateral stripe 
extending above the wings from the shoulders to the scutellum, 
yellowish brown. ‘Two dorsal median rather thin yellowish grey 
stripes, alittle dilated on the anterior margin, and reaching nearly to 
the posterior border, on which latter is an indistinct yellow tomentose 
streak. Scutellum shining black, with a distinct yellowish brown 
posterior margin; metanotum shining black. Surface of thorax 
