IgI2.| E. Brunerrr: New Ortental Diptera, 459 
Abdomen.—Dark brownish grey, with soft blackish hairs ; 
extreme margins of segments pale; sides with whitish hairs ; belly 
similar to dorsum. 
Legs. —Dark brownish grey. A pale yellowish white ring just 
beyond base on fore tibiae; two rings, rather more whitish in 
colour, on middle tibiae, one placed beyond the base, the other 
beyond the middle; hind tibiae similarly banded. Major part of 
posterior metatarsi whitish. ! 
Wings.—Dark grey, stigma distinct but ill-defined. A whit- 
ish subapical streak across the wing from the tip of the 2nd 
longitudinal! vein to that of the upper branch of the 4th vein; 
and the extreme tips of all the posterior cells ‘except, of course, 
the closed 6th cell) whitish. 
The surface of the wing is covered with numerous small pale 
dots forming irregular and incomplete circles or rings. The most 
nearly complete of these rings is formed by two small spots just 
beyond and below the stigma, two each in both submarginal cells 
(beyond the furcation of the 3rd vein); these latter four being 
nearly in a line; two at about the middle of the Ist posterior cell, 
near its anterior margin, and two placed perpendicularly, before 
the middle of the rst submarginal cell. In the centre of this ring 
is a triad of spots placed respectively before, beyond and above the 
basal section of the upper branch of the 3rd vein, A row of spots 
from just before the stigma stretching across the discal cell to the 
anal cell but not encroaching on it; a second row begins a little 
lower and more distad in the wings and runs nearly parallel to the 
first row. Another ring of spots lies over the first four posterior 
cells and the discal cell, enclosing in its centre a triad of spots 
placed respectively at the tip of the discal cell and at the base of 
both the 2nd and 3rd posterior cells. It must be noted that of 
this ring or rosette, the two spots forming its most proximal side 
also form part of the more distad row of spots crossing the discal 
cell. 
A row of spots approximately parallel to the hind margin of 
the wing lies posterior to this second rosette of spots, constructed 
of about two spots in each posterior cell. ‘Two continuous zigzag 
transverse lines across both anal and axillary cells; they being 
more or less continued anteriorly, in the form of subcontiguous 
spots, across the basal cells. Halteres blackish, squamae dirty grey. 
Described from two @ @ in the Indian Museum from near 
Bhowali, Kumaon District (5700 ft.), July rgo9, taken by Dr. A, D. 
Imms. 
N.B.—According to Miss Ricardo’s table of groups, this species 
falls in group V, but it is certainly distinct from any mentioned 
by her in that group. ‘The wing-pattern has a great general 
| Miss Ricardo erroneously uses the term ‘+ posterior tibiae '’ for ‘* hind 
tibiae.’’ The term ‘ posterior ’’ applies to the tour hind legs taken together, as 
“anterior ’’ legs refer only to the four front legs taken together and not to the 
first pair of legs alone. If not used in their correct sense these terms foster false 
conclusions. 
