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ceptibly grey. Genitalia very large; a pair of elongated, two- 

 jointed, thick, hairy claspers, the basal joint mainly reddish brown 

 or dark brown, the 2nd joint black. In the female there are two 

 terminal, rather large, flattened, broad lamellae. Legs pale yellow, 

 often a little brownish at the tips of the coxae, tibiae darker dirty 

 yellow, tarsi blackish. Wings pale yellowish grey ; the 1st longi- 

 tudinal vein reaching as far as the fork of the 4th vein or ending 

 a short distance before it ; petiole and branches of 4th vein 

 subequal ; 2nd posterior cell a little over three times as long as 

 broad, slightly widened at tip. Halteres black. 



Length 3 millim. 



Described from, four males and some females in 'the Indian 

 Museum. The type male from Siliguri at the foot of the 

 Darjiling Hills, 18-20. vii. 07 (Brunetti) ; type female from 

 Darjiling, 1.x. 08 (Brunetti); the other males from the latter 

 locality 26-29. vi. 10 (Annandale), the other female from Kurseong, 

 29. vi. 10 (Annandale). 



Types in the Indian Museum. 



The length of the 1st longitudinal in its relation to the fork is 

 certainly variable, one female from Kurseong, 26. vi. 10, having 

 it so short as technically to fall into the short-veined or second 

 great division of the genus; yet it seems impossible to consider 

 it as distinct from the present species, in view of the admitted 

 variability of this character in the other specimen before me and 

 the certain knowledge of its natural tendency to vary in very 

 many species. 



91. Sciara orientalis, sp. nov. 



8 $ . Head black ; antennae blackish, blackish brown or dark 

 brown, sometimes pale yellowish brown at base, including more 

 or less of the 2nd scapal joint ; thickly pubescent. Palpi yellowish 

 brown or brown. Thorax blackish, brown or dark brown, compara- 

 tively bare, lateral stiff hairs weak ; scutellum and metanotum 

 concolorous, former with soft hairs only. Abdomen black or 

 blackish brown ; belly similar, pubescent. Genitalia of male normal, 

 rather large ; of female inconspicuous. Legs varying from almost 

 wholly pale yellowish to dark brown or blackish, generally con- 

 colorous, the prevailing colour being moderately dark yellowish 

 brown, with the tibiae and tarsi darker. Wings yellowish brown or 

 yellowish grey, variable ; 1st longitudinal vein ending sometimes 

 some little distance before the fork of the 4th, at times approximate 

 to or level with it, rarely slightly beyond it ; petiole of the 4th vein 

 as long as, or (generally) a little longer than the branches, which 

 are moderately parallel, slightly curved and a little diverging at the 

 tip ; 2nd posterior cell normally a little over three times as long 

 as broad, but varying up to four times the length. Halteres brown, 

 variable. 



Length 2-3 millim. normally. 



