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liairs; the eighth ventral segment piodueed, with a fringe of 

 hhick hairs. J.n/s hhick ; all the (cinora with long hlaek 

 liairs below, someiiines rather hristle-like ; the middle femora 

 with three hristles at the apex and one near the ai)ex, the 

 posterior pair with four on the upperside, two at the apex, 

 and two near the apex ; tihiie and tarsi with strong \>Uu'k 

 bristles; the tibi;i' on their outer edges with a fringe of fine, 

 short, whitish hairs, eontinned on the first two joints of tarsi, 

 this fringe is most notieeaide on the hind pair of legs. 

 W'hiffs clear, the usual shading very faint, the small trans- 

 verse vein just b<'forc the middle of tlie diseal cell or 

 sometimes beyond it. 



Female is similar. Ovipositor black, aljout the length of 

 the last two segments. 



Mucliimus tibialis, (J ? , sp. n. 



Type (male) (210) from Dehra Dun, U.P., 3. 4. 1912. 



Type (female) (218) from Dehra Dun, U.P., 1. 4. 1<J12 ; 

 and otiiers from same locality and Bhowali, Kumaon, 5700 

 feet, July 1909, all from Imnis Coll. 



A small species with reddish-yellow tibire and some of the 

 femora with a reddish-yellow stripe on the inside. Ai)d()mcu 

 greyish yellow, with paler segmentations. ]\[oustachc black 

 and white. 



Length, c? 13i, ? 15-17 mm. 



Mule. — Face with grey tomentum ; tubercle fairly pro- 

 minent. Moustache composed of bristly white hairs, with 

 l)laek ones above and at sides. Palpi black with black hairs. 

 Beard white. Antetina; blackish brown, the second one 

 reddish, both with i)laek bristly hairs below and whitish 

 short hairs above, the third with an arista two-thirds of its 

 length. Forehead with black hairs. Hairs round head 

 whitish, the postocular bristles black. Thorax greyisli 

 yellow with the ustial stripes ; the pra'sutnral bristles, the 

 supra-alar, and postalar all two in number, black; the dorso- 

 central bristles about eight in number, all aeeompanied 

 by some long, fine, })lack hairs. Scutellum \^v^vY with pale 

 yellowish pubescence and with six long bristles on its 

 margin, some of these being yellowish. Abdomen greyish 

 yellow, witli a large dark spot on each segment; the seg- 

 mentations lighter, the first three scgnu-nts with whitish 

 weak bristles on their sides; a few white hairs are visible on 

 the sides of the others ami on the segmentations of the last 

 two segments; pubescence on dorsum very short, black; 

 genitalia blackish above and reddish below, with chiefly 



