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hairy, two-jointed claspers ; the basal half of the 1st joint brown, 

 the remainder of the organ black. Legs : coxae and femora bright 

 yellow, black at their junction ; tibiae blackish brown ; tarsi 

 black. Wings distinctly brownish ; 1st longitudinal vein ending 

 distinctly beyond fork of 4th, of which the petiole and branches 

 are subequal; 2nd posterior cell three times as long as broad, 

 normal. Halteres black. 



Length 4| millim. 



One male in the Indian Museum from Kurseong, 5000 ft., 

 8. vii. OS. 



85. Sciara nigripennis, sp. nov. 



c? $ . Head wholly black ; flagelluni very minutely pubescent ; 

 scapal joints short. Thorax black, nearly bare, except for some 

 long stiff hairs laterally above the wings. Scutellum with 

 numerous soft hairs only. Abdomen wholly black, pubescent. 

 Genital organs of male consist of a large dorsal, nearly semicircular, 

 plate and a pair of strong normally shaped claspers, all wholly 

 black. Ovipositor narrow, black, with two small terminal lamellae. 

 Legs black. Wings normally quite blackish, but occasionally a 

 little paler ; the 1st longitudinal A 7 ein ending distinctly but not 

 much beyond the fork of the 4th ; petiole and branches of 4th 

 vein subequal; 2nd posterior cell with sides either parallel or 

 slightly diverging, generally slightly curved, three and a half 

 to four times as long as broad. Halteres black. 



Length 5-6 millim. 



Described from a type male taken by me at Darjiling, 26. v. 10, 

 and females in the Indian Museum from Darjiling, 29. ix. 08 

 and 28. v. 10 (Brunetti) ; Kurseong, 13. viii. 09 (Paiva) ; Ukhrul, 

 Manipur (Pettigrew] ; Bliim Tal, Kumaon, 19-22. ix. 06 (Annan- 

 dale] ; Pashoke, Sikkim, 2000 ft., 5. ix. 09 ; Pattipola, Ceylon. 



Types d and $ in the Indian Museum. 



A male in the Indian Museum from Kurseong, 26. vi. 10, taken 

 by Dr. Annandale, has the 1st longitudinal vein ending some 

 distance before the fork of the 4th vein, but it agrees with 

 S. nigripennis in all other particulars. Several females in the same 

 collection, captured by Mr. C. W. Beebe at Kuching, in Sarawak, 

 Borneo, are much smaller in size (barely 4 mm. to nearly 4| mm.) 

 and have the legs moderately pale brown ; their dates are 23. vi. 10 

 to 4. vii. 10. 



86. Sciara diversipes, sp. nov. 



<S $ . Yery near S. nigripennis, but certainly quite distinct. 

 The differences are as follows : 



1. Fore femora distinctly yellow, more or less dull, but in 

 complete contrast with the rest of the legs, which are generally 



