SYNECIIES. 331 



258. Syneclies rusticus, Bmn. 



Syneches rusticus, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. ix, p. 20 (1913). 

 J . Head : eye's with upper facets red, the lower smaller ones 

 coffee-brown ; three large ocelli, pale yellow and very distinct ; 

 antennae blackish grey, 3rd joint and the rather thick arista paler; 

 proboscis longer than head. Thorax black, only a little shining : 

 some stiff hairs laterally and on posterior margin of scutellum;* 

 viewed from a low angle at the sides, the anterior part of the 

 mesouotum appears brown-dusted. Abdomen uniformly dark 

 blackish brown, with yellowish-brown hairs laterally ; geuitalia 

 concolorous, inconspicuous. Legs yellowish, pubescent; coxae, 

 major part of anterior femora, tips of all femora (very narrowly), 

 and apical half of all tarsi, black ; hind femora wifi'n a row of stiffer 

 long hairs below. Wings distinctly brown, but not deeply so, 

 highly iridescent ; stigma ill-defined but distinct ; halteres blackish 

 brown. 



Length, 3 mm. 



Described' from one d in the Indian Museum taken by me at 

 Darjiling, 26. v. 1910. 



259. Syneches palliditarsis, Brun. (PI. IV, fig. 4.) 

 Syneches palliditarsis, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. ix, p. 18 (1913). 



2. Head black; the narrow face a little grey-dusted; eyes 

 above antennae absolutely contiguous, the upper facets reddish 

 brown, the lower facets, which are much smaller, darker brown ; 

 proboscis shining brown, projecting considerably beyond head (in 

 one specimen twice as long as head) ; palpi very short, nearly 

 black; antennae moderately light brown. Thorax shining black; 

 when viewed from certain directions it appears distinctly dusted 

 with brownish grey ; the anterior part bare ; some long soft hairs 

 on posterior half and on scutellum, on the margin of which is a 

 row of long stiff hairs. Abdomen black, a little shining, with 

 brownish-yellow hairs, which are a little more plentiful than in 

 the other Indian species of this genus. A peculiar feature in this 

 species is the presence en the underside of the 5th segment of 

 two parallel rows, placed longitudinally a short distance apart, 

 of long soft golden yellow hairs. Genitalia elongate. Legs dark 

 brown or blackish; tibiae and tarsi mainly brownish yellow, but 

 base of former and tips of latter darker; femora with rather 

 copious long soft hairs ; tibia? with similar hairs, less regular and 

 not so long, and with a row of longer stiffer hairs; first two joints 

 of tarsi with two longer stiff hairs at their tips. Wings brownish 

 grey, darker anteriorly; stigma brown, oval, moderately large; 

 halteres dark brown. 



Length, 5 mm. 



Described from three $ $ in the Indian Museum taken at 

 Sukna, 500 ft., base of Darjiling Hills (Annandale), 2. viii. 1903 

 (type) and 1. vii. 1908. 



* Most of the bristly hairs are broken off, and therefore cannot be described 

 with exactitude. 



