igii.] E. Brunetti : Neic Oriental Nemoccra. 263 



Legs light brownish yellow ; tarsi dark ; extreme tips of 

 posterior femora black. There is generally a more or less distinct 

 broad irregular blackish band occupying about the middle third of 

 the hhid femora, and the hind tibiae are more or less blackish for 

 some distance at both base and tips : legs minutely pubescent. 



Wings very pale grey, with brownish markings. The cross- 

 veins are rather deeply but narrowly brown, whilst moderately 

 (lark brownish markings occur as follows : a square mark in the 

 middle of the upper basal cell ; a brown well-defined streak from 

 the middle of the costa, narrowing gradually, passing between the 

 above-mentioned square mark, and the inner transverse vein, 

 crossing the base of the discal cell and continuing narrowly along 

 the 5th longitudinal vein : a broader, also well-defined stripe from 

 the costa (narrowing hindwards) passing clear of the outer trans- 

 verse vein, terminating at the upper fork of the lower branch of 

 the 4th longitudinal. 



The tip of the wing down to the 3rd longitudinal vein is 

 brown, leaving in front of it a distinct square shaped, quite clear 

 spot, touching the costa and contiguous to the previousl}^ des- 

 cribed stripe. It may be described differently by sajnng the whole 

 of the costa is brownish, deepening towards the tip, with a quite 

 clear square spot placed just touching the tip of the 2nd longitu- 

 dinal vein, extending from the costa to the 3rd longitudinal. The 

 distal part of the wing from below the 3rd longitudinal down to 

 a little beyond the lowest branch of the 4th, is light brownish grey 

 leaving a clearer streak across the ist, 2nd and 3rd posterior cells, 

 just before their centres and almost below, but a little previous 

 to, the clear square costal spot. Nearly below this latter spot, but 

 a little beyond it, yet just touching it in the ist posterior cell is 

 a nearly upright, oblong quite clear spot, on the outer side of which 

 the brown colour is distinctly deeper for a very small space. The 

 6th longitudinal vein is very narrowly and not deeply suffused. 

 Halteres yellowish. 



Described from a number of both sexes from Darjiling 

 (7,000 ft.), taken by Mr. Paiva. 5 — S-viii-og, and a 9 taken by 

 Dr. Annandale at Kurseong, 2,000 feet below Darjiling, 4-ix-09. 



Rhyphus divisus, mihi, sp. nov. 



cf $. . Himalayas. Long. 3^ — 5 mm. 



This species considerably resembles distiiiclus but differs in 

 some minor characters, and very essentially in the wing markings. 

 The row of stiff hairs behind the eyes and across the vertex is 

 stronger. The basal abdominal segments in the cf are more 

 yellowish on their posterior borders, and the middle line on the 

 thoracic dorsum is very distinctly divided. The blackish band 

 on the hind femora is confined to the o* , whereas in distinctus it is 

 sometimes i)resent, though indistinctly, in the 9 . The wing 

 markings arc entirely different. 



