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bristles on the legs ; the fore femora have three or four very 

 weak white ones below intermixed with long white hairs, 

 and the hind femora have a few short white ones below ; 

 also sometimes some are present in the middle tibiae. 

 Scutellum with two black bristles. 



Female identical; fore femora with the bristles below much 

 stouter and black or white, and this applies to the other 

 femora. 



PJdludicus pallidipennis, ^ , sp. u. 



Type (male) and another from Manora, Karachi {F. W. 

 Tuivnsend). 



A small blackish species distinguished by the absence of 

 the grey shading in apex of wing. Legs entirely black ; 

 bristles chiefly white. Scutellum with no black bristles. 



Length 19 mm. 



Face with grey-white tomentum. Palpi with long white 

 hairs. Moustache composed of yellowisli-white long hairs, 

 not very bristly; the sides of face as far as antennse with 

 similar hairs also present in the centre. Antenn<e blackish, 

 the first two joints with whitish bristles, the third joint 

 short and oval, the arista quite as long as the antennae 

 themselves. Forehead with similar hairs to those on the 

 face. Hind part of head with white bristles. Thorax 

 brownish with grey tomeutnm, the Ijiack median stripe 

 divided ; pubescence on dorsum white. Scutellum with thick 

 long M'hite hairs on dorsixm and ranged along the whole 

 posterior border, where no black bristles are present. Abdo- 

 men short, olive-brown^ the usual spots not very distinct ; 

 pubescence short, white, thick, sides with some long yellow- 

 ish hairs on basal segments and long yellow bristles above. 

 Genitalia short, rather stout, black, with black pubescence 

 and some yellow hairs at apex ; three reddish cylindrical 

 pieces proceed from below and curl over top of genitalia. 

 Wings clear; the type has one grey streak in the first sub- 

 marginal cell, the other male has a wholly clear wing. 



This species may possibly reciuire a genus to itself; the 

 scutellum with hairs only and the wing clear differentiate it 

 from others of the genus. Females may assist to assign 

 it a proper place. 



Philodicus chinensis, Schiner. 



Novava Reise, Dipt. p. 179 (1868) ; v. d. Wulp, Tijd. v. Ent. xli. 



p. 134 (1898). 

 ITrupanea separafus, Wlk. List Dipt, vii., Suppl. 3, p. 611 (1855).] 



