565 



Dolichopeza infuscata, sp. nov. 



6 . Head yellow, with short stiff hiack hairs towards the sides 

 of both frons and occiput. Proboscis yellowish, dark brown at 

 tip, palpi dark brown. 8capal joint oF antennae pale yellow, with 

 a, few slender stiff' Wack hairs; flagellum dark brown, of eleven 

 joints, the last one very small ; pubescence short, whitish, each 

 joint with about four long stiff black hairs on iipperside. Thorcur 

 brownish yellow, with three not very distinct darker stripes ; 

 pleurae a little dtirker ; scutelhnn and metanotum dusky. Ahdo- 

 ?j(e/t brownish yellow, posterior half (approximately) of segments 

 blackish, apical segment and genital organs wholly blackish and 

 pubescent. Belly mainly yellowish. Legs : coxa? and femora 

 yellowish, blackish towards tips ; tibia? and tarsi blackish. Wim/s 

 grey. Upper veinlet of anterior branch of 4th longitudinal vein 

 forked just before half its length ; 4th vein forking immediately 

 before the anterior cross-vein ; the 2nd longitudinal vein beginning 

 much before the origin of the 3rd vein, the basal part of which is 

 in a line \\\i\\ the anterior cross-vein ; posterior cross-vein placed 

 at a distance about midway between the origin of the 2nd vein 

 and the anterior cross-vein. Stigma brown, oval, at the distal 

 end of the inner marginal cell ; small but distinct dark suffusions 

 over the origin of tlie 2nd vein, the basal part of the 3rd vein, 

 and both the anterior and the posterior cross-veins. Halteres 

 dirty black. 



Length. 7| millini. 



Described from one male from the Nilgiri Hills, 6000 ft,, v. 1911 

 {H. L. AndretOes). 



Tjipe in the Indian Museum. 



The four Icdiaa species of Dolicliopeza may now be separated 

 thus : — 



Anterior brancii of upper branch of 4th 

 longitudinal vein forked. 

 Wing-s unmarked except for the I orierdcdis, Brun., p. 3o4. 



stigma I ohsciira, Brun., p. 355. 



Wing-s with infiiscations on the cross- 

 veins infuscata, Brun., p. 505. 



Posterior branch of upper branch of 4th 



longitudinal vein forked jjosticata, Brun., p. 564. 



Subfamily LIMNOBIIN.E. 

 Dicranomyia sulitessellata, sp. nov. 



c? § . Wholly blackish grey, the dorsum of the abdominal 

 segments with the exception of the sides and posterior borders, 

 a little dirty yellowish, the belly also somewhat of the same shade! 



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