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anal cell barely longer than 2nd basal; 6th vein very short. 

 Halteres : stein yellow, clubs dark grey. 



Length, 3 ram. ; wing, 4 mm. 



Described from a single specimen from Bhowali, Kumaon Distr., 

 12. vi. 1910 (Imms), on stones on banks of stream. 



A specimen which probably belongs to this species, but showing 

 a discrepancy in the shape of the discal cell, is amongst the 

 Diptera collected by Mr. Kemp on the Abor Expedition. 



301. Clinocera obscura, Bnm. 



Clinocera obscura, Brunetti, llec. Ind. Mus. ix, p. 34 (1913). 



cJ . Head blackish grey, some stiff hairs on occiput and frons, 

 which latter is very broad. Proboscis short, half the height of 

 the head, shining black, with a much swollen apical part (this 

 latter in one specimen partly brownish yellow) ; palpi very small, 

 brownish yellow. Antenna! 3rd joint elongate oval, with long 

 black arista. Thorax brownish grey, including scutellum ; sides 

 and metauotum bluish ash-grey ; some dorso-central and lateral 

 bristly hairs. Abdomen dark brown, softly pubescent. Genitalia 

 extremely long and conspicuous, blackish, with a few pale hairs, 

 egg-shaped, convex, bent under the venter, the narrower end 

 pointing towards the base of the abdomen ; posteriorly (i. e. from 

 the broader end) project some yellowish filamentous appendages. 

 Legs brownish yellow ; coxae ash-grey, especially the posterior 

 pairs ; tarsi a little darker. Fore femora with a few soft pale 

 longer hairs; remainder of legs microscopically pubescent. Wings 

 very pale grey, wholly unmarked, highly iridescent; halteres 

 brownish yellow. 



Length, 2 mm. 



Described from two rf c? in the Indian Museum from Simla, 

 10. v. 1909 (Annandale), 



Genus MICRODROMIA, Big. 



Mia-odromya, Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (3) v, p. 503 (1857) 

 (emend.). 



GENOITPE, Tachydromia oratorio, Fin. (Europe). 



This genus differs from Clinocera by the fore coxse being nearly 

 as long as the femora, the latter being considerably thickened. 

 Head elongate, ovate ; eyes more elongate than in Clinocera and 

 sometimes contiguous below the antennae ; arista un jointed ; 

 proboscis about as long as height of head. Thorax with the major 

 bristles apparently variable ; metapleura bare. Legs with fore 

 coxae from rather shorter than to nearly as long as femora ; 

 fore femora much thickened, with two rows of short spines 

 below, and a row of long bristles on each side ; fore tibia? curved 

 at base, with a row of short spines on inner side and a long apical 

 spine ; posterior tibiae without apical spur. Winys with subcostal 

 vein short; no discal or anal cell ; 3rd vein forked; lower branch 



