342 EMPIDJE. 



pale pubescence. Wings distinctly brown, paler on apical and 

 posterior parts ; stigma very distinct and large, dark brown ; 

 venation normal ; halteres brown. 



Length, 2 mm. 



Described from one 2 i Q the Pusa collection taken at Pusa,. 

 April 1908. 



Type in the British Museum. 



H. nitens is distinguished from brunnipes by the very brown 

 wings and conspicuous large stigma, by the nearly black legs, and 

 especially by the very shining black thorax and abdomen. 



From fuscipennis it is separated by the shining black thorax 

 and abdomen, the black proboscis, the very dark legs, arid its- 

 smaller si/e, 2 mm. as compared with 3 mm. 



275. Hybos flavipalpis, Brun. 



Hybosjlavipalpis, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. ix, p. 14 (1913). 



c?. Head: eyes with upper facets much smaller than usual, but 

 larger than lower ones ; antenna? black ; proboscis black, shining ;. 

 palpi yellowish ; occiput blackish, with a row of well -separated,. 

 curved, stiff black hairs, placed some distance behind the eye- 

 margins ; two bristles on vertex. Thorax shining black, stiff 

 bristly hairs laterally towards posterior margins and two on the 

 shining black scutellum. Abdomen black, moderately shining,. 

 with rather long and ragged, yellowish-grey hairs at the sides. 

 Tip of abdomen enlarged ; genitalia very large, black, shining,. 

 with some whitish soft hairs. Legs mainlv black, but anterior 

 tibiae and tarsi more nearly dark brown ; hind tibiae distinctly 

 brown towards tips, and slightly enlarged there ; hind tarsi also- 

 distinctly brown. All the legs normally minutely pubescent,. 

 tibiae with several long stiff bristly hairs on outer side ; hind 

 femora with two rows of small teeth below, bearing bristles. Whig* 

 pale grey ; stigma present but Aveak, brownish ; halteres yellow. 



Length, 3 mm. 



Described from one d" in the Indian Museum from Kurseong,, 

 25. vi. 1910 (Annandale). 



276. Hybos nigronitidus, 



Hybos nif/ro?ntiduft, Brunetti, Ilec. Ind. JNius. ix, p. 11 (1913). 

 d $ . Head black ; occiput tinged with dark grey ; proboscis 

 almost as long as length of head, palpi nearly as long. Thorax 

 shining black, beset with microscopic reddish hairs ; sides of 

 thorax a little greyish, but not at all conspicuously so. Two 

 or three stiff bristly hairs about the base of the wing and one 

 stiff hair on each humerus ; a few of unequal length placed in a 

 row on each side of the median line, and at least two of these (the 

 two hindmost) of considerable size ; two also at tip of the con- 

 colorous scutellum ; both thorax and scutellum bear irregularly 

 placed softer hairs. Abdomen shining black, in certain lights wit.h 

 a little greyish reflection ; a little black pubescence in rf ; in ? 



