. Diptera Brachycera. Brachycera. emits. 355 posterior margin of scutellum, which latter with the metanotuni are both light mouse-grey; sides dark grey. Abdomen rather dark grey ; 1st segment with a little black and grey pubescence; remainder of segments with scattered, very short pale hairs ; venter tawny ; genitalia very dark brown. Legs brownish yellow, coxa? a little bluish grey on basal half ; femora more or less 'blackish in middle and on upper side generally ; tarsi mainly black. Upper and lower sides of four posterior femora with thick but short black ciliated hairs; rest of legs finel
. Diptera Brachycera. Brachycera. emits. 355 posterior margin of scutellum, which latter with the metanotuni are both light mouse-grey; sides dark grey. Abdomen rather dark grey ; 1st segment with a little black and grey pubescence; remainder of segments with scattered, very short pale hairs ; venter tawny ; genitalia very dark brown. Legs brownish yellow, coxa? a little bluish grey on basal half ; femora more or less 'blackish in middle and on upper side generally ; tarsi mainly black. Upper and lower sides of four posterior femora with thick but short black ciliated hairs; rest of legs finely black pubescent. Wings pale grey, veins brownish yellow on basal part, blackish distally. Anterior cross-vein just before middle of discal cell; stigma imperceptible ; halteres brownish yellow. Length, 5^ mm. Described from a single § in the Indian Museum from Mundali, Jaunsar division, Dehra Dun Distr., 9000 ft., 12. v. 1910. 290. Empis rostrata, Brun. (PI. IV, figs. 9, 10.) JEmpis rostrata, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. ix, p. 25 (1913). 5 . Bead with occiput grey, with a few bristly black hairs above ; frons and face concolorous grey, the former comparatively wide, with parallel edges, the latter much wider ; antenna? black, 2nd joint very distinctly bright brownish yellow ; palpi bright brownish yellow, short; proboscis two and three quarter times height of head; reaching beyond base of abdomen, brownish yellow, a little blackish in middle on underside ; a few whitish hairs on underside of head. Thorax : dorsum (somewhat discoloured in the centre) light brownish grejr, with a narrow median darker brown stripe and a wider one on each side not quite extended to anterior margin of thorax ; and laterally two brownish spots, one in front. Fig. 31.—Empis rostrata, Brun., wing. of and one behind the presutural depression; sides, scutellum, and metanotuni concolorous, or a little more nearly ash-grey. (Thorax denuded of bristles.) Abdomen light grey, brownish at base of each segmen
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