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side into an elongate blunt point. Elagellum of eight joints, the 

 1st barely half as long as the 2nd scapal joint, the following 

 joints shaped like thickened beads, the apical joint ovate. The 

 proboscis consists of a long elongate-conical rostrum, moderately 

 stout at the base, whitish in colour, with blackish dorsum, thence 

 produced into a tapering, very sharply ])ointed, brownish yellow, 

 horny piece (quite separate from the proboscis proper), which is 

 very long, black, narrowly cylindrical and genicidated before the 

 middle, beyond which it is bilobed, the ends being curled up. 

 Thorax ash-grey, the central part of the dorsum up to beyond the 

 middle occupied by three broad velvet-black stripes, nearly con- 

 tiguous, extending laterally almost to the sides ; the median stripe 

 produced forwards to the anterior margin, which is wholly black 

 to the shoulders, leaving a narrow grey space in front. Pleurae, 

 scutellum, and metanotum blackish. Abdomen velvet-black, the 

 anterior corners of most of the segments a little reddish brown, 

 with more or less silvery reflections. Belly reddish brown. 

 Genitalia moderately small, oval, blackish, not conspicuous. Lecis : 

 coxae wholly and the femora more or less at the base, brownish 

 yellow ; remainder of anterior legs blackish ; tibiae and tarsi of 

 hind legs brownish yellow, extreme tips of joints black. Anterior 

 femora distinctly clubbed at the tips, the hind femora moderately 

 thickened apically ; the hind femora and tibiae each twice as long 

 as the anterior ones, and the hind tarsi fully as long as the hind 

 tibiae. Wings absolutely clear, costa very narrowly black; a 

 small brownish infuscation at extreme tip of wing. Venation 

 normal, agreeing M-ith Ivellogg's figure.* Halteres black, stems 

 yellowish. 



Length 4 millim. 



Described from a single specimen in the Indian Museum, taken 

 by Dr. Annandale at Ivurseoug, 5000 ft., 4. ix. 09, moving slug- 

 gishly on blades of grass. 



Genus BLEPHAROCEEA, Macq.'^ (PI. XII, figs. 18, 19.) 



Blepharicera, Macquart, Ann. Sec. Ent. France, (2) i, p. 61 (1843). 

 Asthenia, Westwood, Guerin's Mag. de Zool. (2) iv, pi. xciv (1842), 

 (preoccupied). 



Genotype, Asthenia fasciata, Westw. (as limhipennis, Macq.). 



Head transverse, flattened above, rounded in front, as wide as 

 thorax in male, narrower in female ; epistoma produced into a 

 snout. Proboscis of moderate size. Palpi loug and prominent, 

 of four subequal joints, j Eyes pubescent ; in male with large 

 upper facets facing vertically and very small ones below facing 



* aeu. Ins., Fasc. 56, pi. ii. fig. 20. 

 t Emended by Loew (1862). 



\ In Kellogg's figure (Gen. Ins.) six very distinct joints are shown. Macquart 

 and Schiner give four, and there are certainly only four in B. indica. 



