236 Mr. J. R. Mullocli on Exotic Muscarid^. 



on parafacials and face. Thorax not vittate, with slight 

 brownish pruinescence. Abdomen with brownish-grey 

 prainescence on sides of each tergite. Legs black. Wings 

 infuscated, most noticeably so at bases. Calyptrse white. 

 Halteres black. 



Eyes separated by a little less than width across posterior 

 ocelli ; orbits setulose almost to anterior ocellus ; parafacial 

 as wide as third antennal segment ; mouth-margin jm'o- 

 duced; cheek rather densely setulose below, the upwardly 

 curved bristles moderately numerous ; longest liaii's on 

 arista distinctly longer than its basal diameter. Thorax 

 with three pairs of postsutural dorso-central bristles ; pre- 

 alar very long. Abdomen elongate, narrow, almost parallel- 

 sided, and slightly depressed ; hypopygium small. Fore 

 tibia with one posterior and two or tliree postero-ventral 

 bristles ; fore tarsus slendei-, much longer than tibia ; mid- 

 femur on both antero-ventral and postero-ventral surfaces 

 with long fine bristles almost to apex ; mid-tibia with three 

 or four postero-dorsal and postero-ventral bristles ; hind 

 femur slender, with a series of long bristles on entire 

 antero-ventral surface, the postero-ventral surface bare 

 except near base; hind tibia slightly produced at apex 

 ventrally, with a short curved bristle near tip of produced 

 part, the anterior and antero-ventral surfaces with rather 

 dense setulose hairs, some of which are stronger than others, 

 the postero-dorsal surface with three or tour long bristles. 

 Wings larger than in most species of the genus. 



Length 5-6 mm. 



T7/pe and three paratypes, Gulmarg, Kashmir, 1913, 

 8500 feet {F. W. Thomson). 



This species has the same habitus as P. tetra, Meigen. 



Subfamily Antrq-myiinm. 

 Pegomyia atroapicata, sp. n. 



Male. — Black, slightly shining, densely grey pruinescent. 

 Head, including antennae and palpi black, orbits, face, and 

 cheeks with silvery pruinescence. Thorax indistinctly 

 vittate, the lateral margins whitish pruinescent. Abdomen 

 with a black dorso-ventral vitta, and, when seen from the 

 side, lateral blackish checkerings. Legs yellow, fore femora, 

 apices of mid and hind femora, and all tarsi black, bases 

 of mid-tibise slightly infuscated. Wings clear. Calyptrse 

 white. Halteres yellow. 



Eyes almost contiguous below anterior ocellus ; inter- 



