No. 5.] Parasitic Muscida from British India, 13 



oral mnrgin, which is not prominent; vibrissse inserted immediately 

 above that margin^ and surmounted by three much smaller bristles ; 

 cheeks bare, their inferior portion no more than a fourth of the longitu- 

 dinal diameter of the eyes; under-side of the head with a row of bristles; 

 beard white; occiput grey. Antennae inserted above the median line 

 of the eyes ; basal joints short ; third joint four times as long as the 

 second ; arista thickened to beyond the half of its length; its basal joints 

 inconspicuous. Proboscis black ; palpi pale rufous, cylindrical. Thorax 

 blackish cinereous, with indistinct black stripes ; scutellum rufous. Abdo- 

 men elongate-oval, black, faintly cinereous at the front borders of the 

 second and third segments, laterally with a large rufous spot, which 

 occupies the second segment and the front half of the third ; anal seg- 

 ment rufous, blackish at the base; second segment with two marginal 

 macrochsetse ; the third with a row of marginal macrochsetse; the anal 

 segment with several macrochsetse and bristly hairs ; under-side of the 

 abdomen nearly wholly rufous and densely haired. Legs black ; middle 

 tibiai furnished externally with three bristles, of "which the most inferior 

 is longer and stands on the middle, posteriorly, and a little lower down is 

 another long bristle ; hind tibise outwardly with a row of many bristles 

 of various length. (The apical joints of all the tarsi are broken off : 

 probably the foot-claws and pulvilU will be elongate.) Tegulse yellowish- 

 white. Wings greyish-hyaline ; apical cell opened at some distance from 

 the wings' tip; small eross=vein distinctly in front of the middle of the 

 discal cell ; curvation of the fourth vein rectangular, with a fold imitat- 

 ing a short appendice ; apical cross-vein slightly concave ; posterior 

 cross-vein curved. 



A single male specimen, bred from Leucaiiia eatranea, Guen., which 

 has proved destructive to crops in Patna. 



6. Masicera dasycJiira, n. sp. ( ? ). 



PI. I, fig. 4. 



Cinereous; head whitish; frontal band, antennse, indistinct stripes 

 on the thorax, first abdominal segment, hind borders of the following 

 segments, and legs black; scutellum oehraceous; palpi rufous. 



Length 7,5 millim. 



Head broader than the thorax ; front yellowish-grey, with parallel 

 sides ; frontal band black, narrower than the lateral portions ; frontal 

 bristles on each side in a curved row descending to the end of the 

 second antennal joint ; outside the rows of frontal bristles is a pair of 

 orbital bristles ; on the vertex two long bristles. Face white, per- 

 pendicular facial ridges slightly divergent towards the oral margin and 

 immediately above it curved inward ; vibrisssa inserted at this curva- 



