360 EMPTDjE. 



outer ones are broad enough to extend over the lateral margins, 

 and all three attain the anterior margin of the dorsum ; a few 

 bristly hairs about the roots of the wings and much smaller ones 

 on the dorsal stripes ; sides a little more yellowish than the 

 dorsum, with which latter the scutellum and metanotum are con- 

 colorous, the scutellum bearing a few stiff black hairs on the hind 

 margin ; the metanotum a little dusky in the centre. Abdomen 

 dark blackish brown, with black pubescence ; genital organs dark 

 grey, with a little pubescence ; venter similar to dorsal side of 

 abdomen. Legs: coxae and femora yellowish ; tibiae dark brownish 

 yellow, tarsi dark brown ; front metatarsi considerably widened ; 

 all the les shortly pubescent ; tibiae with txvo rows of five or six 

 long stiff hairs. Wings pale brown ; stigma vague, very elongate, 

 a little darker brown ; halteres yellowish brown. 



Length i nearly 4 mm. . 



Described from a single <5 in the Indian Museum taken by me 

 at Darjiling, 29. v. 1910, on the hillside. 



297. Hilara peshawarensis, sp. nov. 



c? ?. Whole insect blackish grey. Head: proboscis shining 

 black, as long as height of head, with stiff hairs ; antennae robust, 

 microscopically grey pubescent; palpi rather long, with moderately 

 long bristly hairs. Thorax with almost microscopic yellowish-grey 

 tomentum, which is more conspicuous on hinder part and on 

 scutellum, the latter with four long marginal bristles. Abdomen 

 with the segments more or less microscopically grey-dusted (in 

 good specimens) ; some grey pubescence with longer bristly hairs 

 on hind margins of segments ; genitalia knob-like, rather large, 

 concolorous, pubescent. Legs chestnut-brown, varying a little in 

 colour, pubescent ; fore metatarsus in $ verv large, oval, much 

 larger proportionately than in //. compacta ; pubescence on front 

 tibiae becoming longer towards tip ; knees yellowish ; hind tibiae 

 in $ considerably, though not conspicuously, thickened except at 

 base. Wings pale grey, iridescent, stigmatic region brownish ; 

 stigma darker brown, elongate, with ill-defined edges. 



Length, 3 mm. 



Described from a series of both sexes from Peshawar, N.W. 

 India, 16. hi. 1913 (Hoivlett). 



Type rf and $ sent to British Museum, cotype c? in Indian 

 Museum and my collection. 



Genus HOWLETTIA, Brun. 

 Hoiclettia, Erunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. ix, p. 23 (1913). 

 GENOTYPE, Hoivlettia favipes, Brun. 



A genus of anomalous position, allied to the EMPIRE, OCTDEO- 

 MIIN.E, and TACHYDHOMIIXJE (Platypalpus). 



$ . Head with eyes separated above by a moderately broad 

 frons and only very uarrowlv separated below antennae. Antenna) 



