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Genitalia iu both sexes small, reddish yellow. Legs pale brownish 

 yellow, femora a little lighter, the tips a little irregularly obscured. 

 Wings nearly clear, with a ground-work of very small and ex- 

 tremely pale grey spots, mainly circular or roughly quadrate, and 

 more or less arranged in longitudinal vow^ ; a few darker spots 

 along the costa, a rather larger blackish darkening over the 

 marginal cross-vein, contiguous to a small ill-defined stigma, and 

 weak, but obvious, slight int'uscations over the forks of the veins, 

 the " cross" veins (speaking broadly), and the tips of most of 

 the veins in the distal part of the wing. Halteres small, pale 

 yellow. 



Length 5| millim. 



Described from a unique pair from Pattipola, Ceylon, 6000 ft., 

 14. X. 11 {AnnandaU). 



Types in the Indian Museum. 



This species is distinguished from D. marmoripennis, Brun., by 

 the entirely dark sides of the thorax, instead of the conspicuous 

 wliitish grey sides with a broad dark lateral stripe, as in that 

 species. 



Dicranomyia bicinctipes, sp. nov. 



(S . Head brownish yellow, antenu89 and palpi dark brown. 

 Thorax rather more arched than usual, brou'nish yellow, with a 

 pale median line from about the middle of the dorsum, carried 

 continuously across the scutellum to the rear of the meta- 

 notum. Sides and underside of thorax pale whitish yellow, a 

 brown stripe between and across the anterior coxae. Abdomen 

 dark brown, the posterior part of many of the segments paler. 

 Belly wholly whitish yellow ; genitalia brown, apparently of 

 normal structure. Legs pale brownish yellow, tips of femora and 

 two narrow rings on the tibiiip, black; these rings situated just 

 before the first and second thirds respectively ; tarsi snow-white ; 

 tibiae becoming white towards and at their tips. Wings cu.ue\ioYm, 

 pale grey, iridescent. Auxiliary vein ending about half-way between 

 the origins of the 2nd and 3rd longitudinal veins ; stigma large, 

 oval, black, well defined ; discal cell absent : upper branch of 4th 

 longitudinal vein forked at one-third of its length, the veinlets 

 parallel ; posterior cross-vein in a line with the base of the 3rd 

 posterior cell ; the endings of the 2nd, 3i'd, and 4th longitudinal 

 veins approximately parallel. Halteres dirty yellow, tips darker. 



Length 5 millim. 



Described from three males iu the Indian Museum from 

 " Thingannyinaung to Sukli," Dawna Hills, 900-2100 ft., 

 23-27. xi. 11 {Gravely). 



This species belongs to what may be termed the saltans group ; 

 those with cuneiform wings and snow-white tarsi, the Thrypti- 

 comyia of Skuse. 



