No- 5'J Parasilic Musci dee from BritUh India. 15 



under-side of the bead rounded, with a row of bristles ; inferior portion 

 of the cheeks occupying a fourth of the longitudinal diameter of the 

 eyes; occiput cinereous, densely furnished with yellowish hairs. Anten- 

 nse black, inserted above the median line of the eyes ; first joint short, 

 the second double as long- as the first, the third scarcely three 

 times as long as the second ; arista bare, thickened in its proximal 

 half. Palpi rufous. Thorax cinereous, with black stripes, which some- 

 times appear broader than the interstices, but in other lights appear as 

 narrow black lines ; scutell am cinereous, with the base black and with 

 long discal and marginal macrochsetse. Abdomen elongate-oval, black, 

 with the front margins of the second and following segments obscure 

 cinereous; anal segment pointed ; a pair of macrochsetse on the hind 

 margin of the first and second segments, those of the second segment 

 longer; a row of long marginal macrochsetse at the third segment; and 

 many shorter macroehsetaB on the whole surface of the anal segment. — 

 Legs black ; middle tibise furnished externally in the middle of their 

 length with a long bristle, there are other bristles also below ; hind 

 tibiae furnished externally with several scattered bristles; foot-claws 

 and pulvilli short. Tegulse white. Wings greyish-hyaline, slightly yel- 

 lowish at the base ; apical cell opened at some distance before the tip 

 of the wing ; small cross-vein before the middle of the discal cell ; curva- 

 tion of the fourth vein rectangular and with a fold imitating a short 

 appendice ; apical cross-vein distinctly concave ; posterior cross-vein 

 curved. 



A single female specimen, bred from Olene mendosa, Hbn. 



Tliis fly has much resemblance to Tricholyga, bombycis, Becher, 

 but differs in the bare eyes, in the broad stripes, on the thorax, and 

 in the less numerous and more scattered bristles on the outside of the 

 hind tibise. 



8. Miltogramma dnodecimpu aetata, n. sp. {$). 



PI. I, fig. 6. 



Cinereous; abdomen with three blackish spots on each segment; leg 

 blackish ; antennse and palpi rufous. 



Length 7, 5 millim. 



Head grey ; the cheeks and orbits with white reflections ; front 

 narrower than the eyes ; frontal band cinereous, on each side with a row 

 of short frontal bristles which descend to the end of the first antennal 

 joint ; no orbital bristles. Eyes bare. Face perpendicular; facial ridges 

 firstly divergent, but inferiorly curved inward ; vibrissse inserted justly 

 at the oral margin ; cheeks broad, convex, their inferior portion sliort- 

 haired, occupying at least one-third of the longitudinal diameter of the 



