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female, inconspicuous, narrow, yellow. Legs pale yellow, a little 

 blackish about the junction of the coxae and the femora; the tibiae 

 blackish yellow ; tarsi black. Wings pale grey, slightly vitreous 

 and extremely iridescent, the sciophiline cell about one-and-a-half 

 times as long as broad, upper side distinctly longer than lower. 

 Halteres pale yellow. 



Length 3|-4 millim. 



Described from five males and one female in the Indian Museum 

 taken 10-12. v. 09, by Dr. Annandale, at Simla and Phagu. 



31. Mycomyia flavithorax, sp. nov. 



c?. Head: vertex dark brown; proboscis light brown, palpi 

 blackish. Antennal scape yellow, flagellum black, with whitish 

 rather thick pubescence. Thorax light brownish yellow. A pair 

 of interrupted incomplete median brownish stripes, with a shorter 

 and more distinct one on each side towards the wing. All the 

 dorsum with long black hairs, stiffer ones towards the margins. 

 Scutellum coucolorous, with four stiff bristly hairs on the hind 

 margin. Sides concolorous, metanotutn blackish. Abdomen blackish ; 

 base of most of the segments yellowish, especially towards the 

 sides. Belly with the basal half of the segments yellowish, hinder 

 half blackish. Genitalia large, conspicuous ; each clasper with a 

 large basal subquadrate piece, with a narrow finger-like hook at 

 the tip. There are also some other elongate appendages ; the 

 whole organ brownish yellow, moderately pubescent. Legs: coxae 

 and femora yellowish, tibiae and tarsi pale blackish. Wings pale 

 grey. Venation normal. Halteres yellowish. 



Length 2 millim. 



Described from a single male in the Indian Museum collection 

 taken by Dr. Anuandale at Darjiling, 25. v. 10. 



35. Mycomyia curvilinea, sp. nov. 



J . Head : vertex brownish grey. Proboscis and palpi brownish 

 yellow. Antennal scape and base of 1st flagellar joint yellowish, 

 the remainder black. Thorax rather dark brown, with numerous 

 long black hairs, and more bristly ones towards the lateral 

 margins ; shoulders rather broadly reddish or yellowish. Scutel- 

 lum concolorous, with four large bristly hairs on the hind margin. 

 Sides of thorax and metanotum concolorous. Abdomen mainly 

 blackish, the bases of the segments yellowish. Belly mainly 

 yellowish. G-enitalia large and conspicuous ; a large basal joint 

 to each clasper, ending in two finger-like appendages ; between 

 the basal joints, a pair of long narrow forceps, two-jointed, both 

 elongated, the second consisting of a long horny hook-like process. 

 There is an apparently more or less horny straight flat narrow 

 piece projecting from below the dorsal plate (this latter of 

 moderate size, oblong, yellowish, pubescent) ; slightly enlarged at 



