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CC Wholly black species. 

 D Legs wholly black. Long. 8 — 12 mm. 



Antennae I i-jomted .. .. <r/n/, sp. nov. 



DD Legs mainly brownish. Long. 6-7 mm. 



Antennae lo-jointed .. .. o/;s(«m, sp. no v. 



Plecia fulvicollis, F. 

 P. subvarians, Wlk. 

 P. thonicica, Guer. 



This species appears as common in the plains of the eastern 

 tropics as mclanaspis, Wied. , is in the higher and more northern 

 parts. The Indian Museum has it from many parts of India. 

 Lower Burma, Assam, Java and Ceylon. 



I have taken it myself at Jubbulpore, Meerut (both India), 

 and in Java. It is known from many of the East Indian and 

 Philippine Islands. 



Through the kindness of Mr. E. E. Austen, who has examined 

 the type cr and 9 of subvarians, Wlk., in the British Museum, I 

 am able definitely to allot this name synonymic rank, and from 

 notes on thoracica, Guer., supplied by the same gentleman I have 

 no hesitation, knowing the variability- of fulvicollis from the 

 large number of specimens examined from many parts of the East, 

 in regarding Guerin's species as also identical. 



Moreover, Van der Wulp's reference to thoracica is incorrect; 

 it should be Belanger's Voyage aux Indes Orientales (1833). 



Like many species in this family, it varies considerably in 

 size, from 5-|- to 7 mm., one specimen in the Indian Museum 

 being barely 4 mm. long. 



Plecia tergorata, Rond. 



In the Indian Mu.seum from Bhim Tal (4,500 ft.), ig— 27-ix-o6 ; 

 Sukna (500 ft.), i-vii-08 [both Annandale\\ Darjiling, 6 — g-viii-OQ 

 yPaiva]; Shan Hills, Upper Burma [/. Cozgin Broie'n]. A pair 

 in cop. from Bhim Tal, 27-ix-07. 



It is also known from Burma, Borneo and Java. 



N.B. — In spite of Rondani's remark that the wing is wholly 

 black, without trace of yellow at the base, three or four of the 

 above-mentioned specimens have the wings wholly yellowish 

 brown, yet there can be little doubt of their identity with this 

 species. In both Pleciomyia melanaspis and Plecia fulvicollis the 

 wings are sometimes more brown than black. The scapal joints 

 and first flagellar joint of the antennae are relatively longer than 

 in either mclanaspis or fulvicollis. 



Plecia indica, mihi, sp. nov. 



9 . Himalayas. Long. 6 — 9 mm. 



Entire body black, with the exception of the dorsum and 

 upper part of the thorax , above the ridge line about the insertion 



