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apparently in a single claw. In the 9 the genital organ is narrow . 

 cylindrical, short, ending in a pair of rather slender palp-like 

 appendages. 



Wings blackish brown, darker on anterior part: venation as 

 in indica. 



Described from two & & and one $ in my collection captured 

 by me at Mussoorie, 24-V-05. Not in very good condition but the 

 specific characters quite distinct enough to recognise as re])resent- 

 ing a good species, 



BIBIO, (ieoff. 



Table of species. 



A Thorax partly or wholly reddish yellow 



or brownish yellow (at least the 



dorsum wholly red in all the species 



except discalis, in which it is black). 



B Dorsum of thorax 3-ellowish. 



C Abdomen wholly reddish yellow . . hortulanoides^ 9 , s]). 



nov. 

 CC Abdomen wholly black . . . . bicolor, Wlk. 



BB Dorsum of thorax black . . . . discalis, sp. nov. 



AA Thorax wholly black. 



D Abdomen wholly reddish yellow . . abdominalis , sp. nov. 



DD Abdomen wholly black. 

 E Larger species; at least 10 mm. long. 

 Basal section of 3rd longitudinal 

 vein usually much longer than the 

 anterior cross- vein. 

 F Species 14 mm. long . . . . hortulanoides , <f , sp. 



nov. 

 FF Species 10 to 12 mm. long . . . . obscuripennis , Meij. 



EE Smaller species ; at most 7 mm. long. 



Basal section of 3rd longitudinal 



vein barely, if any longer than the 



anterior cross-vein. 



G Femora wholly bright reddish or 



yellowish. 

 H Femora 3'ellowish, tibiae 5'ellow . . johannis, L. 

 HH Femora reddish, tibiae and tarsi black rufifemur, sp. nov. 

 GG Femora wholly black or dark brown. 

 I Hind tibiae reddish yellow. Veins on 

 posterior part of wing distinct to 

 hind margin, but paler than those 

 in anterior half . . . . . . fiisciiibia, sp. nov. 



II Hind tibiae dark brown or black. 

 Veins uniformly distinct, or those 

 on posterior half of wing paler, and 

 either distinctly continued to the 

 hind margin or abbreviated. 



