38 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vol. XVII, 



/(/., id., Loew.. Berl. Rnt. Zcits. II. io6, pi. i, 12. 

 Cropittda mclanaspifi, Brun., Rec. Ind. Mus. IX, 256. 

 Plecia ignicollis. Walk., List Dipt. Brit. Mus. I, 116 (1848). 

 Plecia tnelanaspis, .-iuctores. 



Himalayas (many Iocs.) ; Nepal ; Assam ; N.E. Ind. Frontier ; 

 China ; Jaj^an ; Siberia. Probably common everywhere through- 

 out the tem])erate regions of the Orient, and in Eastern Asia 

 from about ^larch to October. Not found in the plains in In- 

 dia. Occurs in -Vustralia. Types in the Leyden and Vienna 

 Museums. 



Plecia, Wied. 



Auss. Zweifl. I, 72 (1828). 

 Brun., Rec. Ind. Mus. IV, 270: Id., Fauna Brit. 

 Ind.. 162 : Auctores. 



Genotype, Hirten fulvicollis F. , by designation 

 of Blanchard (Hist. Nat. Ins. Ill, 576, 1840). 



Eupcitcnus, Macq., Dipt. Exot. I, 88' (1838). 



Genotype E. atra Macq., by original designa- 

 tion. 



Rhinnplccia, Bell., Ditt. Messico I, 16 {1859). 

 Genotype, Plecia rostellata Lvv., as rostrata, sp. 

 nov., by original designation. 



fulvicollis F., vSyst Antl., 53 (Hirtca) (1805). 



Plecia fulvicollis, Wied., Auss. Zweifl. I, j^: Macq., Hist. Nat. 

 Dipt. I, 176 : Dol., Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind. X, 407, pi. vi, 3 : Ost. 

 vSack., Ann. Mus. Gen. XVI, 397 : id., Berl. Ent. Zeits. XXVI, 

 96: deMeij., Tijd. v. Ent. LIU, 59, larva and pupa, pi. iv, i, 

 2: Brun., Rec. Ind. Mus. IV, 271 : id.. Fauna Brit. Ind., 163, 

 a" 9 , pi. xii, 12, wing, 15, antenna. 

 Plecia dorsalis. Walk., Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. I, 5 (1857), Singa- 

 pore, Mount Ophir. 

 Plecia subvarians, id., loc. ciL. I, 105 (1857), Sarawak. 

 Pcnthetria thoracica. Guer., Belanger's Voy. aux Indes Orient., 

 Zool.. 557, pi. iv, 9 (1833). 



India ; Ceylon ; Burma ; Assam ; Java ; Sumatra ; Borneo ; 

 Ternatc ; Celebes ; Dutch Pai)ua ; Philippines ; probably com- 

 mon throughout the Oriental Region (though confined mainly to 

 the jilains), during the greater part of the year. Type. Pro- 



bably no individual specimen was ever selected as such : the 

 species is found in the Fabrician and other older collections. 



tergorata Rond., Ann. Mus. Gen. VII, 462 (1875). 



Ost. Sack., loc. cit., XVI, 397 : Brun., Rec Ind. Mus. IV, 271, 



notes: id., Fauna Brit. Ind. 164, pi. xii, 17, antenna. 

 Bhim Tal. 19 — 27-i.\--o6, including cf 9 , /;; cop. ; Sukna, i-\ai- 

 08 [both .-1 )i>iandale] ; Kurseong, 6 — 9-viii-09 [Paiva] ; Mussoorie, 

 x-06; Bhowali, 13-vi-io [Iwms]; Shan Hills, Upper Burma, 

 26-vi-io [Aiinandale and /. C. Broicn]; Shillong, 5500-6400 

 ft., 29-viii— 5-ix-i5 [Kemp]; Khasi Hills, i7-iii-07; Malabar, 



