long and wide^ 2nd joint broad, rather large ; flagellum dark 

 yellowish brown, basal joints oval, gradually becoming elongated, 

 thirteen in number, with a few long hairs each. Proboscis and 

 palpi blackish brown. Thorax : the whole dorsuin very dark 

 blackish brown, very shining, with a little minute gold pubescence 

 over the post-sutural depression and on the scutellum and 

 metanotum. The anterior part of the dorsuin and the shoulders 

 also bear microscopic gold-grey dust. Sides of thorax brown, 

 shining. Abdomen dark brown, more or less shining ; posterior 

 margins of segments broadly yellowish. Belly similar ; sides of 

 abdomen with a little microscopic gold pubescence. Genitalia dark 

 brown, a little yellowish here and there ; an upper plate, ending 

 in two narrow, widely separated palp-like projections ; a pair 

 of large claspers, of which the 2nd joint appears confined to a 

 long hook of moderate size ; a lower pair of smaller fleshy organs 

 and a very long and narrow ventral plate, the tips yellowish. 

 The whole genitalia moderately pubescent. Legs wholly dark 

 brown; distinctly and closely pubescent. Wings pale yellowish 

 grey, glassy, highly iridescent. Auxiliary vein ending just per- 

 ceptibly beyond the base of 2nd longitudinal, of which the pra?furca 

 forms nearly half its entire length, the marginal cross-vein placed 

 exactly at its middle, and joined to the tip of the 1st longitudinal ; 

 basal section of 3rd vein three to four times as long as anterior 

 cross-vein, which is placed at the corner of the discal cell ; this 

 latter being nearly rhomboidal, two-thirds as long as the 2nd and 

 3rd posterior cells ; posterior cross-vein in an exact line with base 

 of discal cell. An apparently spurious vein, resembling that of the 

 STKPHID^, runs in front of the 4th longitudinal vein (in one wing 

 being almost as distinct as a normal vein), turning up at its tip to 

 meet the anterior cross-vein (in the second example this spurious 

 vein is not present). Stigma distinct, of moderate size, pale dirty 

 brown, terminating at marginal cross-vein. Halteres yellow, clubs 

 black. 



Length 4^ millim. 



Described from two males taken by me at Darjiling, 28. vi. 10 

 (type) and 26. v. 10, the latter specimen having the abdomen 

 missing. 



Type in the Indian Museum. 



The presence of fifteen joints to the antenna) and the very wide 

 frons rank this species as abnormal. It does not appear as though 

 an antennal joint were missing, in which case the species might be 

 referred to the neighbourhood of Antocha. There are no spurs to 

 the tibia? and it has the appearance of a rather robust Dicranomyia 

 with long legs. The presence of the spurious vein is, of course, 

 only adventitious. 



