1 08 LEPTIDvE 



with soft pale yellowish-white pubescence. Abdomen 7-segmented, 

 2nd the broadest, dark blackish grey with soft pale yellowish- 

 white pubescence ; genitalia small, inconspicuous. Legs black ; 

 knees and femora more or less brownish yellow at base, the 

 colour on the fore pair extending beyond the middle ; hind tibiao 

 widened towards tips, hind metatarsus distinctly incrassate ; the 

 whole of the legs shortly pubescent; anterior tibiae unarmed, 

 posterior tibiae with two distinct yellowish spines. Wings as in 

 Leptis, except that the anal cell is closed just before the border, 

 pale grey ; stigma blackish, very elongate ; two indistinct pale 

 blackish suffusions, the first, from the origin of the 2nd vein, 

 embracing the anterior cross-vein, the base of the discal cell, and 

 the posterior cross-vein ; the second runs from the fork of the 

 3rd vein to the hinder side of the discal cell, along its outer side ; 

 costal cell rather broad, the costa curving outwards slightly; 

 halteres brownish yellow. 



Length, 5-6 mm. 



Described from two d" c? in the Indian Museum from Badrinath, 

 Garhwal District, 10,200 ft., 27. v. 1910 (Dr. A. D. Imms). 



Genus PARARTHROPEAS, nov. 

 GENOTYPE, Pararihropeas thereviformis, sp. nov. 



Head transverse, as broad as thorax ; eyes bare, with very small 

 facets of uniform size ( ) ; proboscis rather short, thick ; palpi 

 as long as proboscis, cylindrical, straight, bare, porrect ; frons 

 narrow, with parallel sides ; face broader, with nearly parallel 

 sides, not projecting beyond eye-margins ; occiput flattened, or 

 slightly concave ; antennae longer than breadth of head, cylindrical, 

 barely appreciably narrower towards tip ; 1st and 2nd joints short, 

 bristly ; 2nd shorter than 1st, as broad as long ; 3rd divided 

 by eight impressed lines into nice annulations of equal length, 

 except the 1st, which is considerably the longest; last joint 

 bluntly pointed, without style. Thorax oblong, humeri promi- 

 nent, nearly bare, with no obvious bristles, minutely pubescent ; 

 scutellum transverse, unarmed. Abdomen subcylindrical, about 

 twice as long as thorax, slightly flattened, with nearly parallel 

 sides for some distance, gradually narrowing to tip, 7-segmented, 

 the last segment very short. Legs of moderate size and strength ; 

 hind femora considerably incrassate, with a row of small blunt 

 spines on underside ; posterior tibiae with two spurs, front tibiae 

 apparently unarmed; tarsi as long as tibiae, front pair distinctly 

 longer ; claws distinct, three pulvilli. Wings with auxiliary vein 

 ending at about middle of costa, 1st longitudinal ending a little 

 beyond ; 2nd vein beginning at about middle of wing, ending a 

 little beyond 1st vein ; 3rd vein beginning shortly after 2nd, 

 forked at half its length, the branches gradually diverging, the 

 lower branch ending at wing-tip ; anterior cross-vein near base of 

 discal cell, which is twice as long as broad ; 5 posterior cells, 

 1st gradually widening from base to tip, 2nd and 3rd truncate at 



