iQii.] E. Brunetti : New Oriental Nemocera. 277 



Legs shining black, anterior femora with dense black hair, 

 hind pair with the hair much sparser : tibiae and tarsi moderately 

 pubescent. 



Wings dark grey in cr , a little blackish in 9 , in both sexes 

 somewhat iridescent in certain lights, costal cell and stigma brown- 

 ish, veins dark brown. The basal section of the 3rd longitudinal 

 vein is almost exactly equal to the anterior cross-vein. The 4th 

 longitudinal vein forks immediately before the posterior cross-vein. 

 Halteres blackish. 



Described from a type & and 2 taken in cop. by Mr. A. D. 

 Imms at Badrinath (10,200 ft.), Garhwal district, 27-v-io, also 

 from one additional d" and three additional ? 5 of the same 

 date and localit}^, and a 9 taken by Dr. Annandale at Phagu 

 (Simla district, 9,000 ft.), ii-v-og. 



Types in the Indian Museum (also most of the other speci- 

 mens). 



Notes. — One of the three females referred to above has the 

 abdomen blackish except towards 'the side, where the colour is 

 sufficiently distinct to identif}^ the specimen with certainty- with 

 this species. 



This species is verj- like B. marci, L,., the common Palaearctic 

 and North American species, but in that species the 9 abdomen 

 is wholly black as in the :f , so that in spite of the resemblance 

 between the males, the specific difference between the two forms 

 is indisputable. 



Bibio approximatus, mihi, sp. nov. 

 } = venos'US, Meig., var. 



9 . Darjiling district. Long. 5-6 mm. 



Body wholty black, head much flattened, slightly pubescent. 

 Dorsum of thorax with sparse short black hairs ; a very small 

 brownish yellow spot just below posterior corners of dorsum. 

 vScutellum and metanotum black. Legs with terminal spines on 

 fore tibiae reddish brown, apical spurs on posterior tibiae, brown- 

 ish 3^ellow. Hind metatarsi not at all thickened, nearly twice as 

 long as the 2nd tarsal joint. Abdomen with very pale yellowish 

 hairs. Ovipositor normal. 



Wings pale yellowish grey, hardly darker on anterior part ; 

 veins pale brownish yellow, but clearly defined; those on hinder 

 part of wing when viewed from certain directions appear almost 

 as dark as the anterior veins. Stigma large, well defined, oval, 

 black, a slight narrow blackish suffusion over base of 5th longi- 

 tudinal vein. Basal portion of 3rd longitudinal vein almost exactly 

 equal to the length of the anterior cross-vein. Halteres black, 

 but basal half of stem yellowish. 



is a small thick rounded organ between the two abdomen tips of the same red 

 colour as the $ abdomen, but it is not obvious to which abdomen it really 

 belongs. 



