384 TIPCLIDJE. 



Described from a single male and female taken at Darjiling, the 

 male on 6. viii. 09, the female on 9. viii. 09 (Paiva). 



Types in the Indian Museum. 



Very near D. subfasdpennis. The nearly clear wings and 

 the slight differences in venation are almost the only specific 

 characters. 



274. Dicranomyia flavobrunnea, sp. nov. 



<S 5 . Head yellowish grey ; frons very narrow ; proboscis, 

 palpi and antennas brownish yellow, normally pubescent. Thorax 

 brownish yellow, shining ; dorsum with three darker brownish, 

 not always obvious, stripes of the usual pattern, narrowly 

 separated, the median stripe attaining the anterior margin ; 

 shoulders rather lighter yellow, at least in the one male specimen ; 

 the stripes sometimes hardly visible. Scutellum, metanotum and 

 sides of thorax yellowish. Abdomen of male pale yellowish brown, 

 with a little pale pubescence, hind margins and sides of segments 

 narrowly and irregularly pale yellowish. Genitalia brownish 

 yellow, considerably pubescent; consisting of an upper oblong 

 plate, a lower plate with a very narrow chitinous yellow pro- 

 longation ; and a pair of large claspers with apparently an inner 

 pair of organs. In female, abdomen brown, with a little pale 

 pubescence ; ovipositor yellow. Leys uniformly brownish yellow. 

 Wings pale grey. Auxiliary vein ending just beyond the base of 

 the 2nd longitudinal, which vein begins about the middle of the 

 wing, the prasfurca being nearly half the entire length ; marginal 

 cross-vein in middle of marginal cell ; basal portion of 3rd vein 

 rather long, three times longer than the anterior cross-vein, 

 quitting the 2nd vein nearly at a right angle ; discal cell approxi- 

 mately square, about equal in length to the 2nd and 3rd posterior 

 cells ; posterior cross-vein in a line with the base of the discal 

 cell. Halteres brownish yellow. 



Length 5-6 rnillim. 



Described from one male and five females taken in Calcutta, the 

 type male and female on 18. xi. 07, "at light," the remaining 

 females on 9. vi. 07, 6. xi. 07, and 20. xii. 07. 



Types and cotypes in the Indian Museum. 



275. Dicranomyia simplex, sp. nov. 



$ . Head blackish grey ; antennae with elongate oval joints to 

 the flagellum, slightly tinged with brownish yellow. Thorax 

 mainly brownish yellow ; the usual three dorsal dark stripes, with 

 two behind the suture, ill-defined but dark, giving a uniform dark 

 appearance to the whole of the dorsum. Scutellum and meta- 

 notum pale brownish yellow, with traces of a narrow median 

 blackish line on the latter. Abdomen dark dirty brown, the hind 

 margins of the segments narrowly pale ; belly more or less pale. 



