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hoary hairs ; abdomen nearly elliptical, a little broader and longer 

 than the chest ; legs blue, clothed with short hoary hairs; shanks 

 and feet piceous ; shanks pale yellow beneath ; wings colourless ; 

 wing-ribs and veins dark tawny ; poisers pale tawny. Length of 

 the body 4 lines, of the wings 7 lines. 



"East Indies. From Archdeacon Clerk's collection. In the 

 British Museum." 



Though described from the East Indies, it is probably from 

 East India. 



Genus BRACHYCARA. Thorns. 

 Brachycara, Thomson, Eug. Eesa, p. 460 (1868) (1869). 



GENOTYPE, Brucliycara ventralis, Thorns. 



Very near Cliloromyia. Head slightly narrower than thorax, 

 nearly hemispherical ; face not prominent, convex ; mouth- 

 opening large ; proboscis short, labella broad ; eyes bare. 

 Antennae short, 3rd joint almost transverse, obconical, a little 

 shorter than 2nd, six-ringed, last two annulations abruptly 

 narrower. Thorax with humeri distinct. ; scutellum semicircular, 

 unspined. Abdomen oval, broader than thorax, 8-segmented ; 

 last three segments narrower, retracted. Legs moderately strong, 

 slightly pubescent ; anterior coxae small, subovate, very little 

 distant from middle pair ; hind pair subtriangular ; femora 

 clavate fusiform ; tibiae hardly shorter than femora, unspurred ; 

 tarsi hardly longer than tibiae, 1st joint longer than the remaining 

 joints together. Wings longer than abdomen. 



Range. B. ventraHs is the only species. 



56. Brachycara ventralis, Thorns. 



Brachycara ventralis, Thomson, Eug. Resa, p. 461 (1869) ; Brunetti, 

 Eec. Ind. Mus. i, p. 104 (1907). 



c? $ . Head shining, with silvery-white pubescence, thicker 

 below ; frontal triangle shining black, a small subtriangular white 

 spot contiguous to each eye ; irons with a median furrow ; eyes 

 in 3 broadly contiguous, bare ; proboscis yellowish white ; 

 antennae brown, yellow in middle. Thorax and scutellum black, 

 with depressed pubescence, which is golden brown and almost 

 scale-like on the humeri ; a narrow line on mesopleurae whitish 

 yellow. Abdomen yellowish red, a basal and apical blackish- brown 

 spot ; venter wholly shining yellowish red, with very short 

 pubescence. Wings subhyaline, veins yellow ; halteres pale 

 yellow, clubs large. Legs yellowish red, all the tarsi and tips 

 of hind tibiae blackish brown. 



Length, 5 mm. 



Cocos-Keeling Islands. 



The foregoing is a translation of Thomson's description, 



