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streak on the wing is replaced by a nearly round spot on the 

 costa ; the upper branch of the 4th longitudinal vein is slightly 

 sinuous ; the abdomen has the hind margins of the segments 

 blackish. 



One female taken by me at Darjiling, 10-16. x.05. 



Type in the author's collection. 



71. Mycetophila suffusa, sp. nov. 



5 . Head brownish grey, vertex with pale hairs, frons con- 

 spicuously triangular ; lower part of head brownish yellow ; 

 antennal scape and base of flagellum yellow, remainder of flagellum 

 brown. Thorax bright brownish yellow, with pale pubescence, 

 and short black bristles on the dorsum, and with stronger ones 

 round the margin. Pleurae with a faint violet-brown tinge, all 

 with weak bristles except the sternopleurse. 8cutellum con- 

 coloroiis, with four bristles. Abdomen rather dark brown with 

 pale pubescence, posterior margins of segments narrowly black. 

 Legs pale yellow, tibiae and tarsi darker. IVings yellowish ; a small 

 oval dark brown spot over the anterior cross-vein, a very weak 

 blackish (almost imperceptible) tinge over the tip of the wing. 

 Halteres pale yeilovv. 



Length 3 millim. 



Described from a single female from Simla, 10. v. OD' 

 (Anna)idah). 



Type in the Indian Museum. 



72. Mycetophila himalayensis, sp. nov. 



J . Head above dark chestnut-brown, shining, with greyish 

 pubescence ; below antennae blackish brown, palpi yellowish. 

 Antennal scape and 1st joint of flagellum yellow, remainder dark 

 brown. Thorax dark shining chestnut-brown, with pale pubescence ; 

 anterior margin of dorsum moderately or narrowly pale yellow, 

 the colour extending to the shoulders. No bristles on dorsum, 

 three on mesopleura, two or three on posterior corners and four 

 strong ones on the posterior margin of the dorsum. Scutellum 

 concolorous, with normally four strong bristles, sometimes with 

 more (one specimen has five, another seven, the middle or apical four 

 always the strongest). Abdomen blackish brown or black, with pale 

 pubescence; underside of some of the segments, generally the 2nd to 

 the 4th, more or less yellowish, the colour extending to a varying 

 degree over the sides, nearly to the dorsum. Genitalia very small, 

 hardly apparent. Legs: coxae and femora yellowish white, junction 

 of these joints and tips of hind femora narrowly dark brown ; 

 tibiae and tarsi barely darker, except the tips of the latter. Wings 

 yellowish, anterior cross-vein suffused with a brown spot, the 

 colour slightly encroaching on the basal cell. Halteres yellowish. 



Length 3^-3| millim. 



Described from nine males in the Indian Museum from Simla, 

 10. V. 09 (Annandale), and Naini Tal, 10. vi. 09. 



