TO1z.| E. Brunetti: New Oriental Diptera. 513 
almost straight after its first bend; 2nd barely curved: 3rd nearly 
straight but very gently trisinuate; 4th straight; all attaining 
border but indistinct at base. Halteres white, stem yellow. 
Described from a single specimen in the Indian Museum 
collection taken 21-xi-o8 by Dr. Annandale at Tenmalai, Travan- 
core State, S. India. 
MYDASIDAE. 
Cephalocera annulata, mihi, sp nov. 
@. Assam-Bhutan Frontier. Long. 15 mm. 
Head.—Frons rather more than one-third of the head, with a 
small swelling each side of vertex, contiguous to the corners of the 
eyes. Proboscis short. The whole head moderately shining black, 
with rather thick and long whitish grey pubescence over frons and 
face except lower part of the latter. Occiput black, with whitish 
grey hair, which is longer on lower part of head. Antennae all 
black, long; 2nd joint very short, 3rd joint with an impressed 
constriction some distance before its tip; beyond the constriction 
the joint is slightly thickened. Style long, nearly as long as rest 
of antennae, black, with an impressed constriction at nearly one- 
third of its length, the style thickening apically except at extreme 
tip where it is slightly but obviously narrower. 
Thorax black, a grey tomentose stripe at each side of the 
dorsum, a short one from each shoulder, narrowing rapidly and 
not reaching centre of dorsum; the middle of the postericr margin 
also grey tomentose. The whole dorsum covered with fine grey 
pubescence, which is a little longer below the shoulders and on the 
side stripes. Scutellum broad, extremely short, shining black, 
bare. Sides of thorax moderately shining black, with a little grey 
pubescence on the pleurae. 
Abdomen shining black, posterior margins of all segments 
(indistinctly on the Ist segment) narrowly but clearly defined pale 
whitish yellow. Whole surface of abdomen with depressed pubes- 
cence, which is dark brown or blackish on basal half (or there- 
abouts) of each segment, and pale grey on apical half. Belly 
similar, the yellowish white bands passing over the sides of the 
segments and continued narrowly across the ventral surface. 
Genitalia comparatively small, black; a dorsal plate, a pair of 
moderately long finger-like claspers and some yellowish brown 
internal organs: 
Legs black; shortly and normally grey pubescent; base of 
hind tibiae and tarsi slightly brownish yellow. 
Wings pale grey, venation in exact agreement with Macquart’s 
figure of Cephalocera nigra (Dipt. Exot. i, 2, pl. i, 3). Halteres 
black. 
Described from 2 7 ~ from Bhoirakund, Darrang District, 
Assam-Bhutan Frontier, 18—22-x-12 [Kemp]. In the Indian 
Museum. 
