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the hairs brown and more numerous; genitalia shining black. 

 Legs black, shortly pubescent ; femora with a row of stiff hairs 

 below, most conspicuous on hind pair ; tibiae with some stiff hairs, 

 including two at tip ; knees narrowly brown ; underside of tarsi 

 with pale hairs. Wings pale grey, highly iridescent ; venation 

 normal ; stigma small, pale brown, sometimes hardly perceptible ; 

 halteres yellow. 



Length, 3^ mm. 



Described from one S and three $ § in the Indian Museum : 

 type 3 from Sukna, 500 ft., 1. vii. 1908 (Annandale) ; type $ from 

 Darjiling, 29. v. 1910 (Brunetti) ; two additional $ $ from Kur- 

 seong, 7-8. vii. 1908 ; Darjiling, 7000 ft., S.viii. 1909 {Jenkins). 



277. Hybos brunnipes, Brun. 



Hybos brunnipes, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. ix, p, 12 (1913). 



6 . Head blackish ; antennas wholly dark brown. Thorax black, 

 moderately shining ; viewed in certain lights it appears dusted 

 with light grey ; two bristly hairs on hind margin of scutellum 

 (those on the thorax are mostly broken off). Abdomen brownish 

 black, with pale hairs : genitalia small. Legs moderately dark 

 brown ; hind femora with soft grey pubescence ; bristly hairs as 

 in the two preceding species. Wings clear, iridescent ; no stigma ; 

 halteres yellow. 



Length, 2| mm. 



Described from one <S in the Indian Museum from Kurseong, 

 8.viii. 1908. 



Genus PAEAHYBOS, Kert. 



Parahybos, Kertesz, Termes. Fiizet. xxii, p. 176 (1899). 

 Genotype, Parahybos iridipennis, Ivert. (Papua). 



This genus differs from Hybos only by the subapical arista, the 

 less humped thorax, and the unthickened hind femora. It is also 

 closely allied to -Acarteras, Lw., although this latter technically 

 falls into a different section o£ the subfamily. 



Only one species is Indian, but Bezzi has described several 

 from Formosa. 



Range. India, Java, Formosa, Papua. 



278. Parahybos flavipes, Brun. 



Parahybos Jlavipes, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. ix, p. 21 (1913). 



S . Head with eyes above reddish, closely contiguous, the lower 

 facets coffee-brown and much smaller ; antennae yellowish, arista 

 very long, 2nd joint bristly, 3rd with a single bristle above ; face 

 deeply sunk, greyish. Thorax wholly dull black, with some soft 

 hairs towards posterior margin and on scutellum, which latter 

 (with the metanotum) is concolorous. Abdomen wholly dull, very 

 dark blackish brown, with pale pubescence. Legs rather bright 

 brownish yellow, except coxae and basal half of femora ; traces of 



