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dinal reaches to a little before the middle of the wing. The two 
upper light veins almost parallel, nearly straight, 3rd slightly 
curved, 4th parallel to hinder border of wing for some distance. 
Halteres yellowish brown. 
Described from one @ in the Indian Museum collection taken 
by Major Hall at Sylhet, 23-11-05. 
Phora aequidistans, mihi, sp. nov. 
9. Darjiling District. Long. nearly 24 mm. 
Head.—Reddish yellow. Frons microscopically pubescent, 
with three straight rows of four strong bristles each, and a fourth 
row consisting of the two middle ones only. All the bristles 
almost equidistant and of uniform size; their insertion marked by 
a small circular impression on the frons. Eyes brown, posterior 
orbit with an almost complete row of rather short bristles, which 
are shortest on the vertex. Ocelli distinct, without tubercle; two 
strong bristles just below the lower corner of eacheye. Antennae 
reddish yellow, shortly oval; arista apical, concolorous, barely 
thickened at base, microscopically pubescent. Pal!pi reddish 
yellow, with about six stiff bristles on each at the tip. Proboscis 
reddish, bare. Back of head reddish yellow, bare. 
Thorax.—Reddish yellow, microscopically pubescent; a row 
of rather short bristles of unequal length round the sides and 
posterior edge of the dorsum. Scutellum concolorous, broad, quite 
bare, except for the four equidistant strong bristles on the poste- 
tior margin. Sides of thorax and metanotum concolorous. A 
pair of bristles on each side just below the shoulders and a second 
pair below these, adjacent to the fore coxae. 
Abdomen.—Blackish; 1st segment reddish yellow with narrow 
black posterior margin; 2nd segment the longest; sides of seg- 
ments showing a tendency to form pale spots; posterior margin 
of 6th (?) segment broadly yellow, with five or six bristles on 
under side. Ovipositor pale, conical, with a few hairs. Belly 
mainly blackish, bare. 
Legs.—Yellow ochre, pale, microscopically pubescent through- 
out, the tarsi becoming brown towards the tips, and the tips of 
the hind femora above narrowly blackish. Fore coxae with black 
bristles about the broad tips, all femora destitute of bristles. Fore 
tibiae with a bristle on the outer side, a little below the base; 
middle pair with a bristle just below the base on the outer 
side and several at the tip; hind tibiae with two on the inner side, 
about the middle, and two strong ones at the tip, where, in 
addition, are some smaller ones, whilst there is a close-lying row 
of extremely short ones on the outer side, all the tarsi minutely 
spiny. . 
Wings.—Distinctly yellow, rather iridescent. Costal spines 
small, a double row to end of rst lonzitudiaal vein, the single row 
continued to end of 3rd longitudinal vein which terminates just 
before the middle of the wine and is so 12°-owly forked as: to 
