128 MYCETOPHILID.E. 



of tibiae with red-brown spines. Wings dark brown ; 1st longi- 

 tudinal vein ending distinctly beyond fork of 4th ; petiole of 4th 

 barely as long as its branches, which are gently curved and 

 divergent; the 2nd posterior cell three times as long as broad. 

 Halteres black, stems pale yellow. 



Length 6 millim. 



Described from one male in the Indian Museum, taken at 

 Darjiling, 7000 ft., 12. viii. 09 {Dr. Jenhins). 



79. Sciara rufithorax, Wxdp. (PI. Ill, fig. 15.) 



Seiara ruftthorax, van der Wulp, Dipt. Sumatra Exped., p. (i, pi. i, 

 fig.l. 



(S 2 . Head black, vertex shining, palpi blackish ; antennse dark 

 brown or black, scape yellow or brownish, occasionally base of 

 ]st flagellar joint pale also. Thorax brownish yellow, sometimes 

 reddish yellow or ferruginous, shining, practically bare. Scutellum 

 and metanotum concolorous. Abdomen black, roughened, with a 

 few very short hairs. Grenitalia conspicuous and large in male, the 

 1st joint bright brownish yellow, the 2nd joint black, both with ' 

 short rather thickly set hairs. In female two pointed lamellae 

 terminate the somewhat conically shaped abdomen. Legs : 

 femora brownish yellow, a small black spot below at extreme 

 base ; tibiae a little darker, and darker still in female ; tarsi brown. 

 Wings blackish ; 1st longitudinal vein ending more or less at 

 middle of wing, opposite fork of 4th vein in male, and some distance 

 beyond it in female ; petiole of 4th vein a little shorter than its 

 branches in male and much shorter in female, the branches nearly 

 parallel and slightly curved ; the 2nd posterior cell about three 

 and a half times as long as broad ; the 5th vein widely forked at 

 base ; the 3rd longitudinal vein beginning distinctly before the 

 middle of the wing. 



Length 3-5 millim, 



Redescribed from a good series of both sexes in the Indian 

 Museum from India, Assam, Burma, Oej-lou, and probably West 

 China also. The species was described oi'iginally from Sumatra, 

 and probably occurs throughout the greater part of the Oriental 

 Region. There are specimens in the Indian Museum from 

 Rajmahal, Bengal, 5-7. vii. 09 (Annandale), at light ; Goalbathan, 

 E. Bengal, 9. vii. 09 (Hodgart) ; Purueah, Bengal, 31. xii. 09 

 (Paiva) ; Calcutta, 21. xi. 07, on steamers crossing River Ganges, 

 Damakdia Ghat, 30. \i. 08 (Annandcde) ; Shasthancotta, Ti'avan- 

 core, S. India, 8. xi. 09 {Annandcde) ; Ukhrul, Manipur (Pettigrew) ; 

 Moulmein, Burma, 28. ii. 08 (Annandale) ; and Trincomali, 

 Ceylon, ix. 1910. A female in my collection is from Kandy, Ceylon, 

 viii. 09 (Green). A male in the Indian Museum from Tenygueh, 

 Yunnan, West China, taken by Mr. J. C. Brown, is apparently a 

 dark variety, the thorax and genital organs being nearly blackish ; 

 whilst another male in the same collection taken bv Mr. d'Abreu 



