132 HYCETOPHILID^E. 



more dark brown than black ; in a few specimens the whole of the 

 femora are lighter. 



2. The wing is distinctly less blackish ; petiole of 4th vein 

 equal to or slightly longer than its branches. 



3. In size it is apparently a smaller species, none of the 

 specimens present being nearly so large as the smallest ones of 

 S. nigripennis. 



The genitalia are large, black, pubescent, consisting of a pair 

 of wide two-jointed claspers, with a moderately prominent inter- 

 mediate organ. 



Length 3|-4| millim. 



Described from several males and t\vo females in the Indian 

 Museum from Darjiling, 10. viii. 09 (Paiva) ; Ghoom, above Darji- 

 ling Town, 7500 ft., 18. ix. 08 ; Kurseong, 13-16. vii. 07 ; Siliguri, 

 N. Bengal, 18-20. vii. 07, this latter place being in the plains at 

 the foot of the Darjiling Hills. 



From the enlarged genital organs, in conjunction with the 

 yellow fore femora it appeared at first in complete accordance 

 with Schiner's description of S, analis, a species he attributes to 

 Egger, 1863 (Verh. zool.-bot. "Wien, xiii), but which I am unable 

 to trace, and which the Palaarktischen Diptereu Katalog refers to 

 Schiner himself ; but the genital organs, although enlarged, are 

 not exti'aordinarily so, and the probability is that it is a new 

 species. It does not agree in size with three European examples 

 named ' analis ' in the Indian Museum, being much larger; but 

 there is no certainty that these three specimens are correctly 

 identified, being females. 



87. Sciara fratercula, sp. nov. 



2 . This species also is very akin to & nigripennis, and may 

 possibly be identical with it. The differences are : 



1. The 1st longitudinal vein extends for some distance beyond 

 the fork of the 4th, and beyond the middle of the wing. 



2. The wing is distinctly less black. 



3. The legs are pale dirty brown, not black. 



4. In size it is smaller and a more slender species. 

 Length 45 millim. 



Described from several females in the Indian Museum from 

 Kurseong, 7. ix. 09 (Annandale) ; and one female from Bhim Tal, 

 Kumaon, 22-27. ix. 06 (Annandale). 



This and the following two are almost the only species of 

 Sciara described in this work of the specific validity of which 

 there is any reasonable doubt. 



88. Sciara exacta, sp. nov. 



$ . Considerably resembling /S>. nigripennis, but differing by the 

 1 st longitudinal vein ending exactly opposite the fork of the 4th, 



