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11. Evaza flavipes, Big. 



Evaza Jiavipes, Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (5) ix, p. 219 (1879); 

 Brunetti, liec. Ind. Mns. i, p. 98 (1907), vii, p. 451 (1912). 



$ . Head with eyes only approximate at nearest approach ; 

 frons widening to four times as wide at vertex, shining black, 

 bare ; ocelli brownish yellow, rather close together on slightly 

 elevated black ocellar triangle; frontal triangle with yellowish-grey 

 pubescence ; underside of head and proboscis yellow, with a little 

 yellow pubescence ; postocular orbits moderately wide, black, 

 with traces of microscopic golden-yellow pubescence. Thorax 

 moderately shining black, with rather dense, very short, yellowish 

 pubescence ; sides of thorax and the scutellum similar ; latter 

 with four yellowish-brown, rather long spines, which bear a few 

 long yellow hairs. Abdomen moderately shining black, micro- 

 scopically pubescent ; genitalia small, telescopic, brownish orange, 

 ending in two cylindrical lamella; bearing a few pale hairs. Legs 

 all orange, microscopically pubescent; tips of tarsi brownish. 

 Wings grey, brownish on anterior part, veins dark brown ; 

 halteres yellowish. 



Length, 7 mm . 



Described from a single 2 1U the Pusa collection from Darjiling, 

 viii. 1908 (Middleton). 



12. Evaza bipars, Walk. (PJ. I, fig. 9.) 



Evaza bipars, Walker, Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. i, p. 110, pi, vi, fig. 2 

 (1857) ; Brunetti, liec. Ind. Mus. i. p. 98 (1907). 



Evaza Jiavipes, Wulp {nee Bigot, 1879), Term. Fiizet. xxi, p. 416 

 (1898). 



6 $ . Head with eyes contiguous in <$ for greater part of their 

 length, leaving a very narrow and elongate vertical triangle, 

 shining black ; upper and front facets much larger than others ; 

 ocellar tubercle very elevated, black; ocelli very distinct, large, 

 reddish : the small frons and lower part of head ash-grey, with a 

 little whitish pubescence ; occiput black. Antennas placed much 

 below middle of head in profile, orange-yellow, arista black ; pro- 

 boscis and the large labella and the palpi orange-yellow. In 5 , 

 frons double as wide (or rather more) at vertex as at point of 

 nearest approach of eyes, at which latter point it is j\ width of 

 head. Thorax shining black; suture very distinct ; dorsum with 

 very short yellow pubescence, which extends to the scutellum ; 

 humeri orange-brown, a yellowish ridge from humeri to wing-base ; 

 posterior corners of dorsum rather sharply cut away, orange- 

 brown ; pleurae shining black, sternopleuras with yellow pubes- 

 cence. Scutellum black, spines brownish yellow ; metanotum 

 shining biack. Abdomen dull shining black, with short black 

 pubescence ; a little yellowish pubescence at sides ; genitalia very 

 small, mainly concealed ; venter black,- shortly pubescent. Legs 

 pale yellow, with soft short concolorous pubescence. Wings pale 



