SYNECHES. — SYNDYAS. 383 



262. Syneches fuscipennis, sp. nov. 



J . Head with upper eye-facets bright reddish brown, lower 

 ones dark coffee-brown; vertex blackish; frons very small, dark,, 

 shining ; face very narrow, dark grey ; proboscis brownish yellow, 

 barely reaching as far as tip of antennas; palpi moderately long, 

 brownish yellow ; antennae brownish yellow, 3rd joint brown, 

 with a long bristle on upperside and very long dark arista which 

 is yellowish at base ; occiput blackish, very concave, with some 

 long hairs on lower half. Thorax subglobular, dorsum hemi- 

 spherical, dark brown, moderately shining, almost bare; scutellum 

 concoiorous, with a row of stiff hairs on hind margin. Abdomen 

 dull black, with moderately long and soft black pubescence - r 

 genitalia concoiorous. Legs : coxa?, anterior femora (except at 

 tips), hind femora, and tarsi black ; remainder of legs yellow. 

 Pubescence rather long and moderately dense ; a row of longer 

 hairs on upper and outer sides of anterior tibiae, and three long- 

 bristles on outer side of middle tibia?; pubescence on underside 

 of hind femora a little longer, and on hinder side of hind tibia? 

 towards tips conspicuously longer and denser ; a row of 6-7 short 

 blunt teeth below bind femora on apical half. Wings greyish 

 brown; venation normal ; halteres yellowish, with black clubs. 



Length, about 3J mm. 



Described from a single c? in the Indian Museum from Tale- 

 wadi, near Castle Rock, jN t . Kanara Distr., 3-10. x. 1916 (Kemp). 



Genus STNDYAS, Liu. 



Syndyas, Loew, Ofv. K. Vet.-Akad. Fork xiv, p. 369 (1857). 



Ge>~oxy:pe, Syndyas opaca, Lw. (S. Africa) ; by Coquillett's- 

 designation (1910). 



The character in which this genus differs from Hybos is the 

 indistinctness of that portion of the 4th longitudinal vein dividing 

 the two basal cells. From Syneches it differs in the same way r 

 and by the origin of the 2nd vein being more remote from the 

 humeral cross-vein. 



JN r o specimen of the genus has come before me, onky one Asiatic 

 species having been recorded. 



263. Syndyas parvicellulata, Bezzi. 



Synch/as parvicellulata, Bezzi, Ann. Mus. Hung, ii, p. 821, fig. 1 

 (1904). 



$ . Bead round ; eyes above antenna? contiguous, barely 

 separated below by an extremely narrow shining black space; 

 upper facets hardly larger than lower ones ; proboscis short,, 

 horizontal ; palpi black, slender, bare ; ocellar bristles } r ellowish, 

 very slender ; antenna? wholly black, 3rd joint oval, acuminate, 

 with rather long, very thin arista. Thorax moderately convex, 

 very bright, with whitish hairs ; dorso-central bristles very weak, 



