Ig12. | EH. BRUNETTI: New Oriental Diptera. 495 
ize this genus. One of the specimens (from Mergui) is gummed 
on cork, the vertex being almost invisible, and the bristles are 
not present in the second example, but may have been accident- 
ally broken off. The head of the Dawna Hills specimen is how- 
ever otherwise in perfect condition. 
Verrallia plumbella, mihi, sp. nov. 
9. Darjiling District. Long. 34 mm. 
Head.—Vertex black; fronto-facial groove of uniform width, 
with white shimmer. Proboscis yellow. Facets in front con- 
siderably larger than the others. Back of head only just pro- 
jecting beyond the post-ocular orbit, grey with a whitish reflection. 
Antennae (missing). 
Thorax and scutellum black, moderately shining; sides and 
metanotum apparently concolorous. Scutellum with a row of 
minute hairs on posterior border. 
Abdomen.—Shining lead colour, with a few microscopic hairs; 
the base of each segment, narrowly in the centre and more 
broadly towards the sides, dead jet black; 6th segment the 
longest, bearing a thick blackish grey pointed genital organ, 
terminating in a long shiny brown ovipositor. 
Legs.—(Middle pair missing). Black, barely shining; tips of 
femora rather narrowly, and base of tibiae broadly, reddish 
yellow. Base of tarsi yellowish brown, tips black, with a few 
hairs ; claws small, pulvilli distinct and white. Legs microscopically 
pubescent and the fore femora with a few very small bristles below, 
near the tip. 
Wings.—Quite clear. Stigma pale brownish yellow, stigmatic 
segment barely longer than following segment, anterior cross-vein 
just before middle of discal cell; 4th longitudinal moderately 
sinuous after quitting the posterior cross-vein. 
Described from a single specimen in the Indian Museum 
taken by Dr. Annandale at Kurseong (5000 ft.), 5-vii-08. 
Herr Kertesz has removed both of Thomson’s species, avmatus 
and abscissus, to Verrallia (on Becker’s authority), in Ann. Mus. 
Hung., 1, 465: yet Thomson in his lengthy description of armatus 
distinctly says of the 3rd antennal joint ‘‘ apice nostrato acu- 
minato’’ but does not mention any pilosity of the 2nd joint. He 
mentions the very narrow postocular orbit of aymatus. My present 
species appears to be distinct from both of Thomson’s; avmatus 
having very short brown antennae, rather smoky anterior portion 
of the wings and mainly black femora, this last character also 
being present in abscissus also. 
Chalarus spurius, Fin. 
This rather uncommon European species was found by me at 
Darjiling, 29-v-10, represented by a perfect  , the specimen being 
now in the Indian Museum. 
