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Abdomen black, the hind margins of the segments well-defined, 

 slightly thickened. Belly similar but somewhat pale at base, and 

 the hind margins of the segments less prominent. Ovipositor 

 brownish yellow, rather large, slightly pubescent. Legs dark 

 brown, except the cox and the basal half or two-thirds of the 

 femora, which are dirty brownish yellow, the tips nearly black, 

 and distinctly though slightly incrassated. Wings dark grey, 

 with very small pale grey spots and short streaks generally dis- 

 tributed, the two largest of these spots being on the costa, 

 approximately triangular in shape and with a distinct yellowish 

 tinge ; the first is placed just before the origin of the 2nd longi- 

 tudinal vein and has two small round dark grey spots in it 

 touching the costa ; the second is just before the blackish ill- 

 defined stigma. Halteres pale yellow. 



Lens/th 5 millim. 



Described from a single female in the Indian Museum, taken 

 by Dr. Annandale at Kurseong, 15. iv. 11. 



A very distinct species from all other Oriental ones of the 

 genus, the well-defined grey part of the sides of the thorax and 

 the mottled wings distinguishing it at once. 



259. Dicranomyia kobusi, Meij. 



Dicranmnyia kobusi, Meijere, Bijd. Dierk. xvii, p. 91 (1904). 



c? . Head yellowish ; antenna brown, 14-jointed. Thorax- 

 rather prominent anteriorly, dorsum darker, sharply demarcated 

 from the whitish sides ; metanotum brownish, with some white 

 reflections. Abdomen brown, posterior margins of segments often 

 clearer, but lighter in other parts in some specimens ; belly gene- 

 rally lighter. Genitalia apparently normal in both sexes, somewhat 

 small. Legs: fore femora brownish yellow, broadly black at tips, 

 posterior femora dark brown or blackish, middle pair distinctly 

 yellowish towards tips ; all femora slightly and gradually thickened 

 distally ; tibia? white, with a moderately broad blackish band just 

 beyond the middle and occasionally traces of a similar band near 

 the base ; tarsi wholly white. The white portions of the legs bear 

 very short snow-white pubescence. Claws with the usual bump 

 at base, entirely without teeth, pulvilli rudimentary. Wings long 

 and narrow, almost, clear, with small circular dark brown or black 

 stigma. Discal cell absent, coalescing with 3rd posterior cell ; the 

 veins much more crowded towards the tip of the wing than in 

 D. saltans, so that the arc formed by the basal portions of the 

 2nd and 3rd longitudinal veins together with the cross-veins, is 

 situated at two-thirds the length of the wing. Halteres pale 

 with black knobs. 



Length 4-5 millim. 



He-described from six males and one male and female in cop. in 

 the Indian Museum, from Kurseong, 20-25. vi. 10 and 5. vii. 08 

 (Annandale). 



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