EMPIS. — HILAEA. 357 



shining black, including sides, scutellum, and metanotum ; wholly 

 unmarked; a little soft whitish hair ; distinct bristles apparently 

 absent ; a few stiff pale hairs towards hind margin and on scu- 

 tellum. Abdomen darker brown, nearly bare ; genitalia slender, 

 normal, elongate, concolorous. Legs brownish yellow ; hind coxae, 

 tips of tibiae, and all the tarsi blackish. Femora quite bare ; tibiae 

 with only a few short stiff hairs towards tips ; tarsi pubescent. 

 Wings clear, highly iridescent; anterior cross-vein just before 

 middle of di-cal cell ; stigma barely perceptible ; halteres brownish 

 yellow. 



Length, 3 mm. 



Described from two $ $ in the Indian Museum from Mundali, 

 12. v. 1910, taken in company with E. griseonigra 



293. Empis inconspicua, Brun. 



Empis inconspicua, Bmnetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. ix, p. 28 (1913). 



S ■ Head blackish; antennae black; palpi a little yellowish; 

 proboscis twice the height of the head, yellow above, black below. 

 Thorax of an intermediate shade between light and dark grey, 

 with comparatively long and rather stiff hairs ; four long stiff 

 hairs on scutellum, which, with sides of thorax and metanotum, 

 are concolorous, but lighter grey just below shoulders. Abdomen 

 concolorous, rather broad and flat, with parallel sides and soft 

 black pubescence. Genitalia blackish, with reddish-brown bisinuate 

 terminal hooks : venter blackish. Legs uniformly dark brown, 

 pubescent; middle tibiae with four long stiff hairs on outer side; 

 hind tibias with long hairs on hinder side. Wings pale grey; 

 anterior cross-vein a little before ^ of discal cell ; stigma brownish, 

 ill-defined, much elongated, and reaching the costal margin ; 

 haltei'es yellow. 



Length, 2^ mm. 



Described from two <5 6 in the Indian Museum from Lucknow, 

 17. i. 1908 (type) and 9. ii. 1908. 



Genus HILARA, Mg. 

 Hilara, Meigen, Syst. Besch. iii, p. 1 (1822). 

 Genotype, Empis maura (Europe) ; by Curtis's designation. 



Allied to both Empis and Rhamphomyia. 



Head in some species nearly as broad as the thorax, shorter than 

 high. Eyes neariy always separated by a narrow frons in both 

 sexes, but in some species contiguous in the male, in which case 

 the upper facets are larger than the lower ones. Antennae 

 3-jointed, with distinct 2-jointed style ; 1st and 2nd joints short, 

 about as long as broad, bristly ; 3rd elongate-conical, bare, slightly 

 compressed ; 1st joint of style very short, 2nd elongate, cylin- 

 drical. Proboscis about as long as height of head or a little 



