116 MYCETOPHILIDJB. 



yellowish stripe, which shows a tendency to be continued on to the 

 hind margin of the thorax. Abdomen very dark brown, rather 

 compressed, hind margins of segments narrowly yellowish ; belly 

 yellowish. Genitalia brown, composed of a pair of fleshy bi-hooked 

 claspers *, enclosed by narrow .side-plates united to an equally 

 narrow dorsal plate, which latter terminates posteriorly in a pair 

 of curved finger-like appendages. Leys yellowish, tips of coxae and 

 of posterior femora and tibiae brownish, the colour widest on the 

 hind pair. Wings yellowish ; a small brown oval spot, contiguous 

 to the outer side of the basal cell, limited above by the 1st vein, 

 and below by the lower branch of the 4th ; a brown streak from the 

 costal margin filling the space between the tips of the 1st and 3rd 

 veins, and proceeding in a zigzag course to the hind border between 

 the branches of the 4th and 5th veins. Halteres yellow. 



Length 3 millim. 



Described from a single male in the Indian Museum, from 

 Simla, 10. v. 09 (Annandale). 



69. Mycetophila griseolateralis, sp. nov. 



tS . Head blackish, vertex and frous with stiff yellow hairs. 

 Antennae dark chestnut-brown, with the exception of the tip of the 

 1st joint and whole of the 2nd joint of the scape, and the base 

 of the 1st flagellar joint, which are yellowish ; all the flagellum 

 with grey pubescence. Proboscis dark, palpi yellowish. Thorax 

 blackish, with stiff yellow hairs ; sides of thorax from the shoulders 

 to the wings distinctly grey, with yellow hairs as on the dorsum. 

 Scutellum blackish with yellowish hairs and four long yellow 

 bristles on the hind margin ; metanotum and sides of the thorax 

 (except the grey part mentioned) black. Prothorax with two 

 large bristles on each side behind the eyes, placed wide apart. 

 Abdomen black, with moderately long yellowish hairs. Genitalia 

 yellow, consisting of two side-plates, meeting below and covering 

 the ventral surface, and a pair of two-jointed organs terminating 

 in lamella-like tips. Legs : coxae, femora, and tibue yellow, 

 blackish at their junctures ; tarsi dark brown. Wings pale grey, 

 with a suspicion of darkening on the anterior margin distally, 

 a dark brown suffusion of limited extent over the base of the 3rd 

 longitudinal vein and the anterior cross-vein. Halteres pale 

 yellow. 



Length 1| millim. 



Described from one male from Tonglu, 10,000 ft., Darjilin^ 

 district, 21.iv.10 (C. W. Beebe). 



Type in the Indian Museum. 



70. Mycetophila cnrvilinea, sp. nov. (PI. II, fig. 14.) 



This species, if distinct from M. quadrifasciata, Brun. (supra), 

 differs by the pale shoulder marks being absent ; the blackish 



* It is not certain that there are not three terminal black hooks. 



