JIILABA. 



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yellow, pubescent. Thorax wholly dark grey, including sides 

 scutellum, and metanotum ; a little black pubescence, and some 

 stronger hairs on dorsum laterally. Abdomen blackish, pubescent, 

 sometimes pale below at base ; genitalia a little broader than the 

 abdomen. Legs pale yellowish brown, pubescent; tibia with a 

 row of longer stiff hairs on outer side ; front metatarsi much 



Fig. 32. Hilara compacta, Brim., wing. 



thickened, as wide as the tibiae, and longer than the remaining 

 fore tarsal joints ; posterior metatarsi normal, not so long as the 

 remaining tarsal joints. Wings pale grey; stigma elongate, pale 

 brownish, ill-defined ; halteres dirty brownish yellow. 



Length, barely 2 mm. 



Described from three (J d 1 in the Indian Museum from Simla, 

 16. v. 1909 (type) and 9. v. 1909 (Annandale). 



295. Hilara bares, Walk. 



Hilara bares, Walker, List Dipt. Brit. Mus. iii, p. 491 (1849). 



" Body brown, clothed with short black hairs ; eyes dark red ; 

 feelers and mouth black ; breast hoary ; legs tawny, clothed with 

 short black hairs ; feet brown : wings light brown, darker for 

 one-third of the length along the fore-border ; wing-ribs and veins 

 piceous; poisers brown. Length of the body, ]| line; of the 

 wings, 3 lines. 



" East India. Presented by Capt. Parry." 



Type in the British Museum. 



296. Hilara rufithorax, Brun. 



Empimorpha rufithorax; Brunetti, Ilec. Ind. Mus. ix, p. 30 (1913). 



S . Head : occiput, f rons, which is moderately wide with 

 parallel linear edges, and face all black, with a few black bristles, 

 the latter with a pair of long bristly hairs; vertex with three 

 distinct large reddish ocelli, with a pair of strong divaricate 

 bristles between the upper ones. Antenna? yellow ; 3rd joint 

 elongate onion-shaped, with a long closely pubescent black arista, 

 ending in a small bare black pointed bristle ; the iirst two antennal 

 joints with some short bristles near their tips. Proboscis about 

 as long as the height of the head, the basal half yellowish, the 

 apical half blackish ; palpi very long, longer than proboscis, some- 

 what broadened and flattened at the tips, with a few yellowish 

 hairs. Thorax bright light yellowish brown, with three black 

 dorsal stripes, of which the median one is of moderate width, the 



