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258. Syneches rusticus, JBrun. 



Syneches rusticus, Bvunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. ix, p. 20 (1913). 

 c? . Head : eyes with upper facets red, the lower smaller ones 

 coffee-brown ; three large ocelli, pale yellow and very distinct ; 

 antennae blackish grey, 3rd joint and the rather thick arista paler; 

 proboscis longer than head. Thorax black, only a little shining ; 

 souie stiff hairs laterally and on posterior margin of scutellum; * 

 viewed from a low angle at the sides, the anterior part of the 

 mesonotum appears brown-dusted. Abdomen uniformly dark 

 blackish brown, with yellowish-brown hairs laterally ; genitalia 

 concolorous, inconspicuous. Legs yellowish, pubescent; coxae, 

 major part of anterior femora, tips of all femora (very narrowly), 

 and apical half of all tarsi, black : hind femora with a row of stiffer 

 long hairs below. Wings distinctly brown, but not deepty so, 

 highly iridescent ; stigma ill-defined but distinct ; halteres blackish 

 brown. 



Length, 3| mm. 



Described from one S in the Indian Museum taken by me at 

 Darjiling, 26. v. 1910. 



259. Syneches palliditarsis, Brun. (PI. IV, fig. 4.) 

 Syneches palliditarsis, Bmnetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. ix, p. 18 (1913). 



2- Head black; the narrow face a little grey-dusted; eyes 

 above antennae absolutely contiguous, the upper facets reddish 

 brown, the lower facets, which are much smaller, darker brown ; 

 proboscis shining brown, projecting considerably beyond head (in 

 one specimen twice as long as head) ; palpi very short, nearly 

 black; antennae moderately light brown. Thorax shining black ; 

 when viewed from certain directions it appears distinctly dusted 

 with brownish grey; the anterior part bare; some long soft hairs 

 on posterior half and on scutellum, on the margin of which is a 

 row of long stiff hairs. Abdomen black, a little shining, with 

 brownish-yellow hairs, which are a little more plentiful than iu 

 the other Indian species of this genus. A peculiar feature in this 

 species is the presence en the underside of the 5th segment of 

 tw x o parallel rows, placed longitudinally a short distance apart, 

 of long soft golden yellow hairs. Genitalia elongate. Legs dark 

 brown or blackish ; tibiae and tarsi mainly brownish yellow, but 

 base of former and tips of latter darker; femora with rather 

 copious long soft hairs ; tibiae with similar hairs, less regular and 

 not so long, and with a row of longer stiffer hairs ; first two joints 

 of tarsi with two longer stiff hairs at their tips. Wings brownish 

 grey, darker anteriorly; stigma brown, oval, moderately large; 

 halteres dark brown. 



Length, 5 mm. 



Described from three 5 $ i' 1 tbe Indian Museum taken at 

 Sukna, 500 ft., base of Darjiling Hills (Annandale), 2. viii. 1908 

 {type) and I. vii. 1908. 



* Most of the bristly hairs are broken off, and therefore cannot be described 

 •with exactitude. 



