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Legs all dark brown, the outer sides of the tarsi with a little grey 

 pubescence. 



Wings gre}^, dark brown from the costal border ; the colour 

 extending over both basal cells, and to abcmt half way between 

 the 3rd and 4th longitudinal veins, and reaching to the wing- tip 

 at the termination of these two veins. The lower half of the dis- 

 cal cell is thus clear. 



Described from one ? in the Indian Museum collection, from 

 Sikkim. 



C. compacta, mihi, sp. nov. (PI. xiii, fig. 13.) • 

 9 . Lower Himalayas (Mussoorie). Long. ii|^ mm. 



Vertex broadly black, also a wide stripe below antennte and 

 lower part of face and a transverse line just below the vertical 

 black spot ; rest of face red, antennal protuberance reddish brown, 

 antenna; dark brown, 3rd joint nearly black. A little white hair 

 behind the e3^es and on lower part of head. 



Thorax all black except red shoulder spots and a vertical red 

 stripe each side of the thorax a little in front of the wings ; scutel- 

 lum entirely red. 



Abdomen black, dull, posterior edges of 2nd, 3rd and 4th seg- 

 ments with a thick but narrow red border. 



Legs red ; coxae, a narrow ring at the base of the four anterior 

 femora, and extending to about two-thirds on the hind femora 

 (extreme base red), and a narrow^, somewhat interrupted ring on 

 apical half of all the tibiae, black. 



Wings clear ; brown from fore border to just beyond the 3rd 

 longitudinal vein and including the whole of the lower basal cell, 

 Halteres 3^ellowisli red. 



Described from one ? taken by me at Mussoorie, 22-vi-(\5. In 

 my collection. 



C. apicata, mihi, sp. nov. 



{Id. id., Bigot, noni. nud.) 



cf . vSouth India. Long. 18 mm. 



Head : face wholly bright orange-yellow, bare ; cheeks and 

 mouth with a raspberry-red tinge. Antennae raspberry-red, the 

 apical half of 3rd antennal joint yellowish grey. Vertex narrowly 

 yellow, ocellar elevation small, reddish. Proboscis and palpi black. 

 Byes dark bronze-brown. Back of head yellow. 



Thorax reddish brow^n, bare. Humeral and praealar calli 

 orange-yellow. Meso-, ptero- and sternopleurae, brownish 3'ellow. 

 vScutellum and metanotum red-brown ; posterior border of scutellum 

 yellow. 



Abdomen reddish brown, with very minute pubescence. Pos- 

 terior border of 2nd segment narrowly yellow, a wider yellow 

 border on the 3rd segment, widening at the sides ; 4th segment 



