54 MTCETOPHILIDiE. 



dark brown suffusion across the centre of the wing, including the 

 cross-veins, commencing just below the costa and attaining the 

 middle of the wing ; a second brownish suffusion over the upper 

 corner of the basal cell. Halteres pale yellow, clubs brown. 



Length 5-6| millim. 



Described from two specimens in the Indian Museum from 

 Phagu, 9000 ft., Simla district, 12. v. 09 {Dr. Annandale). 



5. Macrocera elegans, sp. nov. (PI. I, fig. 4.) 



S . Head brownish yellow ; the three ocelli placed on the frontal 

 tip (which is black) of the longitudinal elongated convexity on the 

 vertex. Palpi a little brown. Antennal scape yellow, ilagellum 

 dirty yellow. 'Thorax brownish yellow ; three blackish brown 

 stripes of tlie ordinary pattern, the outer ones shorter ; a small 

 blackish streak on each side in front of the wing. Scutellum and 

 metanotum brownish, edges of former a little yellow. Sides of 

 thorax yellowish. Abdomen brownish yellow, w^ith black hair, hind 

 margins of segments blackish ; belly similar. Genitalia rather 

 large, yellow, pubescent, 1st joint robust, elongate oval, 2nd 

 elongate but narrower, with a pair of small black claws at the 

 tip. Legs yello«'ish, tibiae and tarsi dirty yellow. Wings nearly 

 clear ; a blackish, zigzag, rather narrow, transverse band, widest in 

 the middle, across the middle of the wing from the costa to the 

 anterior branch of the 5th longitudinal vein ; a blackish apical spot 

 reaches from the costa to just beyond the tip of the anterior 

 briinch of the 3rd vein. Halteres yellowish. 



Length 5 millim. 



Described from one male taken by me at Darjiling, 26. v. 10, 

 on the hillside, amongst herbage. 



Type in the Indian Museum. 



6. Macrocera inconspicua, sp. nov. 



S . Head brownish yellow ; antenna) lighter, a little paler still 

 at the joints ; palpi brown. Vertex flattened, dai-ker, back of 

 head dark grey. Thorax brownish yellow ; dorsum with three wide, 

 shining, but not very conspicuous, rather darker, chesuut-brown 

 stripes, occupying nearly all the surface except the shoulders, 

 which are yellowish. Pleurae shining brown. A minute row^ of 

 stiff hairs on each side of the median line, and on the sides of 

 the dorsum ; a pair of long dorso-central bristly hairs, well 

 separated, on posterior border, and two similar ones on 

 each posterior corner. Scutellum and metanotum concolorous, 

 the former with a row of ten stiff hairs, of which the four 

 middle ones are ranch the longest. Abdomen : first segment 

 yellowish, remainder brown, with black posterior margins, the 

 whole abdomen with rather long black hairs. Genitalia con- 

 spicuous, dark brown and yellowish, consisting of a large dorsal 

 oblong plate, and the normal pair of large two-jointed claspers, 



