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posterior margin of scutelluin, which latter with the metanotum 

 are both light mouse-grey ; sides dark grey. Abdomen rather 

 dark grey ; 1st segment with a little black and grey pubescence ; 

 remainder of segments with scattered, very short pale hairs ; 

 venter tawny ; genitalia very dark brown. Legs brownish yellow, 

 coxae a little bluish grey on basal half ; femora more or less 

 blackish in middle and on upper side generally ; tarsi mainly 

 black. Upper and lower sides of four posterior femora with thick 

 but short black ciliated hairs ; rest of legs finely black pubescent. 

 Winys pale grey, veins brownish yellow on basal part, blackish 

 distally. Anterior cross-vein just before middle of discal cell ; 

 stigma imperceptible ; halteres brownish yellow. 



Length, 5^ mm. 



Described from a single 5 in the Indian Museum from Mundali, 

 Jaunsar division, Dehra Dun Distr., 9000 ft., 12. v. 1910. 



290. Empis rostrata, Brun. (PI. IV, figs. 9, 10.) 



Empis rostrata, Brunetti, Kec. Ind. Mus. ix, p. '25 (1913). 



. Head with occiput grey, with a few bristly black hairs above ; 

 frons and face concolorous grey, the former comparatively wide, 

 with parallel edges, the latter much wider ; antennae black, 2nd 

 joint very distinctly bright brownish yellow ; palpi bright brownish 

 yellow, short ; proboscis two and three quarter times height of 

 head ; reaching beyond base of abdomen, brownish yellow, a little 

 blackish in middle on underside ; a few whitish hairs on underside 

 of head. Thorax : domain (somewhat discoloured in the centre) 

 light brownish grey, with a narrow median darker brown stripe 

 and a wider one on each side not quite extended to anterior 

 margin of thorax ; and laterally two brownish spots, one in front 



Fig. 31. Empis rostrata, Brim., wing. 



of and one behind the presutural depression; sides, scutellum, 

 and metanotum concolorous, or a little more nearly ash-grey. 

 (Thorax denuded of bristles.) Abdomen light grey, brownish at 

 base of each segment, the colour broader in the centre ; genitalia 

 slender, cylindrical, terminated by two thin finger-like lamellae, 

 ooncoloroiis; venter light grey, unmarked. Leys between light 

 brown and tawny ; coxae a little grey-dusted and with a little soft 

 whitish hairs ; tarsi more or less blackish on upper side ; extreme 

 tips of femora very narrowly black; posterior femora with blackish- 

 brown scales above and below ; posterior tibiae with blackish-brown 

 scales, much thicker and larger on hind pair, on which they occur 



