142 MYCETOPHILID.E. 



103. Sciara inconspicua, sp. nov, 



$ . Head blackish ; palpi pale yellow, also the scape and the two 

 or three basal joints of the flagellum. Thorax: dorsum almost 

 wholly occupied, except at the shoulders and humeri, by three 

 contiguous broad, rather dark chestnut-brown stripes, with tMo 

 greyish, barely perceptible lines separating them. Pleurae, meta- 

 notum, and scutellum concolorous ; the latter pale yellow below, 

 and with six rather long moderately strong bristly hairs and two 

 or three smaller ones towards each side. Abdomen dark nut-bro\\n, 

 pubescent, hind margins of segments narrowly cream-yellow ; 

 belly yellowish. Ovipositor small, dark brown. Legs : coxae and 

 femora pale yellow, a little blackish at their junction, tibia? and 

 tarsi darker. Wings pale yellowish grey ; 1st longitudinal vein 

 barely reaching as far as fork of 4th, ending almost exactly at the 

 middle of the wing; branches of 4th about equally long as the 

 petiole, nearly straight, pax'allel ; 2nd posterior cell nearly four 

 times as long as broad. Halteres brownish. 



Length 3 milhm. 



Described from a single female in the Indian Museum from 

 Sylhet, 14.i.05 (Lt.-Col. Hall). 



This species is placed in my synoptical table between the t^ o 

 groups 17 (thorax mainly yellowish) and 24 (thorax mai)ily 

 blackish or brown). 



104, Sciara hirtilineata, sp. nov. 



6 $ . Lfead blackish. Tip of 2nd scapal joint narrowly reddish 

 yellow ; flagellar joints rather elongate. Thorax black, dull, with 

 two median narrow grey stripes close together, from the anterior 

 margin nearly to the scutellum ; two broader stripes commencing 

 behind the shoulders and continuing nearly to the posterior 

 margin; this gives an appearance of three obvious but not con- 

 spicuous blackish hnes on a dark background, but in occasional 

 specimens they are almost or entirely absent, in which case the three 

 x-ows of pale hairs will generally ideutifiy the species. Three 

 longitudinal stripes of rather closely and irregularly placed, 

 moderately long, brownish yellow hairs ; the central hairy stripe 

 between the two median narrow grey stripes, the other two hairy 

 stripes between these median grey stripes and the lateral wider 

 grey stripes ; lateral borders of dorsum with similar brownish 

 yellow hairs, but without distinct bristles ; a little yellow 

 pubescence about the shoulders, below which is a small reddisli 

 yellow mark. Scutellum blackish, with sofc brownish yellow 

 hairs only ; metanotum blackish. Abdomen dull black, with 

 brownish yellow hairs, and hind margins of segments very 

 narrowly reddish yellow ; belly blackish. Genitalia in male large, 

 normal ; in female telescopic, elongate. Legs : coxae and femora 

 brownish yellow, the former darker at base ; tibiae rather dark 



