284 UOMBi'MIDJE. 



in front and at sides with long black hairs ; anterior margin of 

 thorax broadly whitish grey, which in the centre is produced 

 posteriorly into four narrow stripes, of which the outer pair just 

 reach the suture, the inner pair being very slightly shorter ; sides 

 of thorax black, with long black hairs, and the whitish-grey colour 

 of the anterior margin of dorsum extends downwards somewhat 

 below the shoulders. Abdomen dull black, posterior margins of 

 segments narrowly yellowish, with the colour continued over the 

 sides and across the venter ; a row of grey hairs on posterior 

 border of segments, and the sides of the abdomen with rather 

 thick whitish-grey hairs ; venter concolorous. Leas black, minutely 

 pubescent ; femora with rather long soft black hairs on upper and 

 lower sides ; hind tibi3 very shortly bristly. Wings nearly clear ; 

 subcostal cell very pale yellow ; halteres pale brown, clubs chalk- 

 white. 



Length, 4 mm. 



Described from one J taken by Dr. Annandale at Simla, 

 10. v. 1909, in company with the previous species. A second 

 specimen with the same data; both in the Indian Museum. 



Genus PHTHIRIA, Mrj. 



Phthiiia, Meigeii, Illig. Mag. ii, p. 268 (1803). 

 Megapaipw, Macquart, Hist. Nat. Ins., Dipt, i, p. 394 (1834). 

 Dasypalpus, Macquart, Dipt. Exot. ii, pt. 1, p. 112 (1840). 

 Cyclorhynchus, Macquart, Dipt. Exot. ii, pt. ], p. 114 (1840) preocc. 

 Phtyria, Rondani, Arch. Zool. Modena, hi, p. 05 (1863). 

 PcBfilognathia, Juennicke, Abh. Senck. Nat. Ges. vi, p. 3/30 (1863). 



GENOTYPE, Bombylius pulicariua, Mikan (Europe) ; by original 

 designation. 



Head in d 1 nearly ' semicircular, in $ nearly circular, not 

 broader than high viewed from in front, about as wide as thorax ; 

 face broad but short down the middle, because the large and 

 rather wide mouth-opening extends up between the wide side 

 cheeks ; frons in $ broad, depressed in the middle ; three ocelli ; 

 eyes in tf contiguous or subcontiguous, in 5 wide apart. Pro- 

 boscis long, thin, almost bristle-like, directed forwards in a slight 

 arch, labella very small ; palpi rather short and thin. Antenna? 

 porrect, shorter than head, approximate at base; 1st and 2nd 

 joints short, subequal in length ; 3rd elongate, peg-shaped, Avith a 

 terminal style (sometimes indistinct). Thorax oval, longer than 

 broad, slightly arched, in d 1 with fairly long erect dense pubes- 

 cence, without bristles; in 5 with only short depressed pubescence; 

 pleura? with only slight pubescence, except for a rather dense tuft 

 on the mesopleurae ; metapleurae bare ; scutellum large, semi- 

 circular. Abdomen 7-segmented, conical in <5 , ovate and rather 

 flattened in $ ; pubesceuce as on the thorax in 5 . Leys long 

 and thin, entirely without bristles except for some tiny spicules on 

 the hind tibia3. Wings longer than abdomen ; 1 st basal cell 



