356 EMPID.E. 



below the metatarsi also, and are even continued in a less pro- 

 nounced scale-like form on the underside of the remaining tarsal 

 joints ; the legs generally with minute stiff black hairs. Wings 

 brownish yellow ; anterior cross-vein at two-fifths of discal cell ; 

 stigma practically imperceptible ; halteres brownish yellow. 



Le&giht 7 mm. 



Described from a single $ in the Indian Museum from Theog, 

 Simla Distr., 8000 ft., 1. v. 1907 (Annandale). 



291. Empis marginata, Brun. 



Pachymeria marginata, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. xiii, p. 79 (1917). 



$ . Head : frons ash-grey, with parallel sides ; ocellar triangle 

 large, black ; palpi bright orange ; antennas all black, 3rd joint 

 considerably broadened at base, style joints distinct ; occiput 

 bluish grey, with bristles and stiff hairs. Thorax moderately dark 

 grey, with a slight yellowish tinge ; two dark median well-separated 

 narrow stripes from anterior margin to well beyond middle ; an 

 outer stripe on each side, abbreviated, enlarged iuto an irregularly 

 shaped and rather indefinite elongated large spot behind the 

 suture ; dorsum covered with short black hairs, except on the 

 stripes ; pleura3 concolorous, with black hairs ; a bunch of bristly 

 hairs on each humerus ; two macrochaetae just in front of wing- 

 base, and a fringe of long stiff black hairs on each side of the 

 metanotum ; scutellum concolorous, with four marginal bristles. 

 Abdomen moderately dark ash-grey ; hind margins of segments 

 shining black, the colour extending forwards in centre nearly or 

 quite to anterior margins ; 5th segment wholly grey ; 6th and 7th 

 grey, shining black basally ; venter grey ; ovipositor black. Legs : 

 coxae grey, tips brownish yellow ; femora in no way incrassated y 

 brownish orange, a brown streak on upper side of fore pair, and 

 traces of such on middle pair ; tibiae and tarsi brownish yellow, 

 tips of joints of latter black. Femora with soft black pubescence, 

 longest on underside of posterior pairs ; hind pair with a row of 

 eight or more bristles ; tibiae with soft black pubescence and 

 longitudinal rows of bristles ; tarsi pubescent. Wings very 

 pale yellowish grey, unmarked ; stigma absent ; anterior cross-vein 

 just before middle of discal cell; halteres brownish yellow. 



Length, 5 mm. (to tip of ovipositor). 



Described from a single $ in the Indian Museum, taken between 

 Kugri and Phagu, Simla Distr., 21. v. 1906 (Annandale and Kemp). 



Very like the European femorata, F., which might quite likely 

 occur in the Western Himalayas, but differing radically in t be- 

 hind femora showing no trace of incrassatiou. 



292. Empis elegans, Brun. 



Empis eleyans, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. ix, p. 26 (1913). 



5. Head black; antennae black ; palpi large, yellow ; proboscis 

 twice the height of the head, bJack or blackish brown. Thorax 



