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the hairs brown and more numerous ; genitalia shining black. 

 Legs black, shortly pubescent ; femora with a row of stiff hairs 

 below, most conspicuous on hind pair ; tibiae with some stiff hairs, 

 including two at tip ; knees narrowly brown ; underside of tarsi 

 with pale hairs. Wings pale grey, highly iridescent ; venation 

 normal ; stigma small, pale brown, sometimes hardly perceptible ; 

 halteres yellow. 



Length, 3^- mm. 



Described from one tf and three $ $ in the Indian Museum : 

 type J from Sukna, 500 ft., 1. vii. 1903 (Annandale) ; type $ from 

 Darjiling, 29. v. 1910 (Brunetti) ; two additional $ $ 'from Kur- 

 seoiig, 7-8. vii. 1908 ; Darjiling, 7000 ft., 8. viii. 1909 (Jenkins). 



277. Hybos brunnipes, Brun. 



Hi/bos brunnipes, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. ix, p. 12 (1913). 



c? Head blackish ; antenna? wholly dark brown. Thorax black, 

 moderately shining ; viewed in certain lights it appears dusted 

 with light grey ; two bristly hairs on hind margin of scutelluin 

 (those on the thorax are mostly broken off). Abdomen brownish 

 black, with pale hairs : genitalia small. Legs moderately dark 

 brown ; hind femora with soft grey pubescence ; bristly hairs as 

 in the two preceding species. Wings clear, iridescent ; no stigma ; 

 halteres yellow. 



Length, 2| mm. 



Described from one d 1 in the Indian Museum from Kurseong, 

 8. viii. 1908. 



Genus PARAHYBOS, Kert. 

 Parahybos, Kertesz, Termes. Fiizet. xxii, p. 176 (1899). 



GENOTYPE, Paraliybos iridipennis, Kert. (Papua). 



This genus differs from Hybos only by the subapical arista, the 

 less humped thorax, and the unthickened hind femora. It is also 

 closely allied to Acarterus, Lw., although this latter technically 

 falls into a different section of the subfamily. 



Only one species is Indian, but Bezzi has described several 

 from Formosa. 



Ranrje. India, Java, Formosa, Papua. 



278. Parahybos flavipes, Brun. 



Paraliybos fiavipes, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. ix, p. 21 (1913). 

 c? . Head with eyes above reddish, closely contiguous, the lower 

 facets coffee-brown and much smaller ; antennas yellowish, arista 

 very long, 2nd joint bristly, 3rd with a single bristle above ; face 

 deeply sunk, greyish. Thorax wholly dull black, with some soft 

 hairs towards posterior margin and on scutelluin, which latter 

 (with the metanotura) is concolorous. Abdomen wholly dull, very 

 dark blackish brown, with pale pubescence. Legs rather bright 

 brownish yellow, except coxae and basal half of femora ; traces of 



