354: EMPIDJE. 



but blackish, as are also the antennae, but the face, viewed from 

 below, shows dark grey reflections; palpi bright brownish yellow; 

 proboscis oue and a half times the height of the head, the upper 

 side brownish yellow. Thorax light brownish grey, with soft 

 black pubescence, and bristly hairs laterally and towards the hind 

 margin ; two narrow median well-separated brown stripes from 

 anterior margin extending three-fourths of the distance to the 

 scutellum ; a lateral broader stripe on each side, practically formed 

 of three irregularly-shaped elongate spots (one on the shoulder, 

 one in front of and one behind the pre-sutural depression), which 

 are contiguous, the hind one attaining the posterior margin of 

 the dorsum. Some bristles laterally and towards hind margin 

 of mesonotum, also four on the scutellum. Sides of thorax 

 and metanotum light grey, dorsum of scutellum brownish grey. 

 Abdomen darker grey, with short sparse black hairs ; posterior 

 margins of segments more or less black ; genitalia elongate, con- 

 colorous, much as in E. rostrata ; venter dark grey. Legs: coxae 

 dark grey, remainder of legs brownish yellow, extreme tips of 

 femora blackish, and tips of tarsal joints more broadly blackish. 

 All the legs with black pubescence ; posterior femora with blackish 

 bristly hair above ; hind femora with scales ; posterior tibiae with 

 blackish-brown scales on front and hind sides, as in E. rostrata, 

 but much less strong and apparently confined to the basal half of 

 the hind pair ; on the hind side of the hind tibia? a row of moder- 

 ately long, well-separated bristles. Wings very pale grey, nearty 

 clear ; anterior cross-vein directly over the middle of the discal 

 cell ; halteres bright brownish yellow. 



Length, 5 mm. 



Described from one 5 in the Indian Museum from Mundali, 

 Jaunsar division, Dehra Dun, 12. v. 1910. 



It seems likely that this will prove to be the female of E. 

 griseonigra. 



289. Empis subcilipes, Brun. 



Empis subcilipes, Brimetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. ix, p. 24 (1913). 



9 . Head ash-gre3 r ; frons about one-fourth the width of the 

 head ; some short stiff black hairs behind the eyes, and some soft 

 white hairs on lower part of occiput ; antennae reddish brown, 

 rather long, black-streaked on upper side and with a whitish 

 shimmer on the inner side in certain lights ; antennal style of 

 moderate length ; proboscis nearly three times the height of the 

 head, reddish brown, with the underside black. Thorax moderately 

 dark ash-grey ; a broad brownish-grey median stripe from the 

 anterior margin and a less distinct much shorter stripe on 

 each side, not extending to the shoulders. Surface of dorsum 

 with short setae more or less irregularly placed, but a distinct 

 double row in the centre and a number towards each shoulder ; 

 some stiff bristles above and in front of each wins; and four on 



