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of the wings. This part is wholly bright ferruginous red, and very 

 minutely pubescent. 



Wings blackish, darker on anterior border ; stigma and 

 halteres black. Antennae as in atra, but the first flagellar joint 

 hardly longer than those immediately following. 



Described from two & cf and several 9 9 in the Indian 

 Museum from Darjiling, 2-X-08 [Brunetti]; Theog (Simla hills), 

 2y-'w-oy, and Kumaon, ix-1906 [both Annandale] ; Soondrijal 

 (Nepal), Kangra Valley (4,500 ft.) and Kimoli. 24-X-07. I also 

 took it at Darjiling, 10 — 16-X-05. 



Plecia atra, mihi, sp. nov. 

 9 . Nepal and Western Himalayas. Long. 8 — 12 mm. 



Entire body deep velvet-black, especially on the dorsum of the 

 thorax. Antennae of eleven joints, the scapal two, subcylindrical , 

 the 2nd being wider at the tip; the ist flagellar joint is cup-shaped 

 at its base ; the following seven joints of equal size, of flattened bead 

 shape, the last one, small, conical; the whole antenna straight 

 and slightly pubescent. 



Abdomen rough, minutely pubescent. Legs bare, pulvilli 

 greyish white. 



Wings blackish, anterior part much darker, stigma black ; 

 halteres greyish black. The 4th longitudinal vein not forked 

 until some distance from the anterior cross- vein. Upper branch 

 of the 3rd longitudinal vein long, almost parallel to the lower one, 

 originating close to the anterior cross-vein. 



Described from four 9 9 in the Indian Museum from Kumaon 

 (Bhim Tal, 4,500 ft.), 19 — 22-ix-o6 [Annandale], and from vSoondri- 

 jal, Nepal. 



This is the only wholly black eastern species except my 

 obscura, which is more dirty black in colour with a tendency to 

 brown in the legs, besides being smaller in size. 



Plecia obscura, mihi, sp. nov. 



& 9 . Western Himalayas. Long. 6-7 mm. 



Wholly dirt3^ black, minutely pubescent. Thorax, on dorsum 

 and sides sometimes brownish (in one specimen). Femora dark 

 mahogany-brown, remainder of legs blackish brown. Antennae 

 rather stout, black, scapal joints equal in length, short ; ist 

 flagellar joint longer than each scapal joint, slightly pinched in 

 the middle ; remaining seven joints subequal, normal (no obvious 

 minute apical joint in one example, antennae incomplete in the 

 other two). 



Vertex in cf wholly occupied by the very large cup-shaped 

 ocelli, Which are placed, so to speak, on their sides with their 

 bases united. 



Genitalia in cf : a pair of strong hairy claspers, two-jointed, 

 the bcusal joint the longer and stronger, the 2nd joint ending 



