132 I\lr, J. Iv. Ma]U)tIi on Exotic Muscaritlii?. 



Xn. — E.vutic Musraridjc (D'tptora). — A'^L* 

 Jiy J. R. -Malloch, Wiisliington, D.C 



Subt'uiiiily PuAONii^^^. 

 Gcuns Myiospila, R.-D. 

 Myioapilu meditahunduj var. anc/uslifruns, u. 



Mule and female. — Similar to the tyi)ioal form, di£Ferii)g 

 in liaviug the thorax of male darker, indistinctly vittate, the 

 abdomen -with much darker i)runu;sL'en('e and the j)aired 

 spots larger and less clearly ditt'erentiated iu male, and mucii 

 more conspicuous in female. The frons of tlie male is 

 much uarrowcr iu this variety than in the typical form, at 

 the narrowest |)()int being not wider than the distance between 

 the posterior ocelli. 



Length 7o-8 mm. 



Ty/>e and allotype, Gulmarg, Kashmir, 8500 feet, summer, 

 1913 (F. /r. Tlionison). 



Genus Spilauia, S. & D. 

 Spilaria cashmirensis, sp. u. 



Mule and female. — Black, marked as in lucorum, Meigen, 

 the thorax cjuadrivittate and the abdomen with paired spots 

 and lateral cheekerings on dorsum. The dorsal spots arc 

 less clearly defined aud the cross-veius of wings are not 

 percei)tibly darkened. 



Mule. — Eyes hairy, more narrowly sei)arated than in 

 lucuruin, the narrowest point ai)out as wide as anterior 

 ocellus; frontal bristles not extending to middle of orbits ; 

 parafacial a little narrower than in lucorum. Thorax as in 

 that species, the hairs on hypoj)leura less numerous, some- 

 times absent, those on ventral surface of scutelluui more 

 numerous. Abdomen ovate, basal sternite bare. Fore tibia 

 M-ith a strong median posterior bristle ; fore tarsus slender; 

 mid-femur with some strong bristles on basal half of postero- 

 ventral surface aud some weaker bristles on basal half of 

 autero-ventral; mid-tibia with three strong posterior bristles; 

 hind femur with a rather densely placed series of autero- 

 ventral bristles, the postero-ventral surface with a few short 

 hairs apically; hind tibia with two antero-dorsal and eight or 



* For Part V., ac« Aiiu. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ('J) ix., March 1922, 

 jip. i'71-2bO. 



