74 MYCETOPHlLID.i:. 



a large pair of claspers, elongate, conical, much flattened, and 

 bisinuate, produced on the lower side into a finger-like appendage; 

 a globular piece between the claspers above, just beyond the dorsal 

 plate, and apparently some intermediate appendages. Wings 

 marked as in tinctipennis, but the apical spot much darker, and the 

 proximal spot over the sciophiline cell is extended to a rather dark, 

 irregular brown streak reaching hind margin of wing. 



Length 3 millim. 



One example from Bhowali, 5700 feet, Kumaon, July 1909 

 (A. D. Imms). 



Type in the Indian Museum. 



Since the description of the species, the abdomen of the type, 

 and only specimen, has become detached and lost. 



29. Mycomyia tinctipennis, sp. nov. (PI. I, fig. 11.) 



Head yellow ; antennal scape brownish yellow, about the 

 basal halt' of flagellum yellowish brown, changing to black towards 

 tip ; palpi blackish. Thorax (sometvhat crushed) uniformly 

 yellowish brown ; lighter at sides ; pleurae rather dark grey. 

 Dorsum with some bristly hairs, apparently more or less longi- 

 tudinally arranged. Abdomen: basal half blackish above, yellowish 

 below (remainder missing). Leys : coxaB and femora pale yellow, 

 tibise and tarsi pale blackish. Wings pale yellowish grey ; slightly 

 suffused over distal half ; over the cross-veins, enclosing the 

 sciophiline cell, which is approximately square; faintly also behind 

 the 5th longitudinal vein. Halteres yellow. 



Length probably about 3| millim. 



Described from a single specimen from Kurseong, 3. vii. 08 

 (Annandale). 



Type in the Indian Museum. 



The thorax is slightly crushed, and the apical half of the 

 abdomen is missing, so that the sex is uncertain. I would not 

 have described the species but that the wing markings are 

 probably sufficient to distinguish it. 



30. Mycomyia fermginea, sp. nov. (PI. I, fig. 12.) 



d 1 $ . Head wholly yellow, except palpi, a narrow line from 

 above antenna to behind head, flagellum, and eyes, all of which 

 are black. Scape yellow with some bristly hairs above. Thorax 

 yellow. Dorsum with four dark brown equidistant stripes, the 

 outer ones placed nearly on the sides (type specimen). They con- 

 verge somewhat towards the posterior margin and are joined 

 behind into two pairs by short cross-lines. In the second example 

 there is a distinct additional median narrow line between the two 

 inner stripes, of which in the type there is a trace only near the 

 fore border. Sides of thorax, scutellum, and metanotum concolorous 

 in type ; paler yellow in second specimen. Two distinct dorso- 



