. Diptera Brachycera. Brachycera. CniLOSIA. 41 produced beyond upper half of eye and only slightly so on lower half, which "bears a fringe of white hairs. Thorax cupreous, with brownish or yellowish hairs ; scutellum ccneous, similarly pubescent; sides of thorax cupreous, with a little greyish hair. Abdomen cupreous, with moderately thick soft whitish pubescence, which is thicker at the sides and on the belly. Legs wholly black,. Fig. 10.— Chry^ogaster (Orihoneura) indica, Brun., wing. with the usual amount of greyish pubescence, under sides of tarsi reddish-brown. Wings pale grey; stigma
. Diptera Brachycera. Brachycera. CniLOSIA. 41 produced beyond upper half of eye and only slightly so on lower half, which "bears a fringe of white hairs. Thorax cupreous, with brownish or yellowish hairs ; scutellum ccneous, similarly pubescent; sides of thorax cupreous, with a little greyish hair. Abdomen cupreous, with moderately thick soft whitish pubescence, which is thicker at the sides and on the belly. Legs wholly black,. Fig. 10.— Chry^ogaster (Orihoneura) indica, Brun., wing. with the usual amount of greyish pubescence, under sides of tarsi reddish-brown. Wings pale grey; stigma yellowish ; halteres orange. Length, 6 mm. Described from a miique 6 in the Indian Museum, from the Kaugra Valley, Punjab, 4500 ft., xi. 1909 {Dudgeon). Genus CHILOSIA, Melg. Cheilosia, Meigen, Syst. Beschr. iii, p. 296 (1822), aud vii, p. 123 (1838). Lristcdis, Zetterstedt, Fallen, et auct. Lejuta, Kondani, Dipt. Ital. Prod, ii, p. 176, nota (1857). Cartost/rpkus, ]>igi)t, Anu. Soc. Ent. France, (6) iii, p. 230 (1883). Gexottpe, Syrphus Jlavipes, Paiiz. ; as depila, sp. nov.* Head, about as broad as thorax; ej'es contiguous in S for a considerable space (with one or two exceptions), broadly separated in $, ranging from densely pubescent to absolutely bare, always more hairy in S than $ except in a limited group of species in which the reverse is the case; frontal triangle in 6 small, frons in $ usually Avith three longitudinal channels and a more or less distinct transvei'se depression just above the antennaB; face excavated below antennae and then produced into a distinct central bump, being hollowed again before the produced mouth-border. A peculiar generic feature is the sliglitly raised eye-)nargins extending along the lower inner orbit of the eyes, bearin<j; a different pubescence from that of the face, the latter being little more than tomeiitum except in certain species. Antenna) with * Some little uncertainty seems attached to the exact origin, apph'cntion and
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