i88 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vol. XVII, 



xanthomelana Walk., List. Dipt. Brit. Mus. I, 77, 9 (1848). 



Ost. Sack., Berl. Ent. Zeits. XXX, 166 ■ Wulp. Tijd. v. Ent. 

 XXVIII, 81. Bnin., Rec. Ind. Mus. VI, 235, 241: Fauna 

 Brit. Ind., 289. liast India. Type in British Museum. 



This species is retained under Clenophora Ijut the cf is not 

 known and it pro1)al)ly l:)elongs to Pselliophora. C. inelanura, 

 Walk. (List Dipt. Brit. Mus. I, 78 ; 1848) is a Sargus (Stratio- 

 myidac). Alexander now suggests that xanthomelana is prob- 

 ably identical with Prionota nigriceps, Wulp. If so, of course 

 Walker's name takes precedence. 



Pselliophora, Ost. Sack. 



Berl. Ent. Zeits. XXX, 165 (1886). 

 de Meij., Tijd. v. Ent. LIV, 63, tab. Javan 

 spp. : Brun., Rec. Ind. Mus. VI, 236. tab. orient 

 spp. and notes: id.. Fauna Brit. Ind., 290. 

 Genotype, Tipula laeta F., by ray own desig- 

 nation (Fauna, 290). 



laeta Fab., Ent. Syst. IV, 230 {Tipula) (1792). 



Clenophora laeta, id., Syst. Antl., 19: Wied., Dipt. EKot. I, 20 



{Clenophora): id., Anss. Zweifl. I, 38': Macq., Dipt. Exot. 



I, I, 42, pi. ii, II (full ins.): Brun., Rec. Ind. Mus. VI, 240, 



notes: XV, 257: id.. Fauna Brit. Ind., 291, o» 9 , pi. vi, g, 



antenna {Pselliophora). 



Widely distributed in India and the East ; Dehra Dun, 

 Purneah, Sind, Calcutta, Bangalore, Travancore, Bombay. Goa, 

 Nilgiri Hills, Ceylon. A variable species. 



Type presumably in Fabricius's collection. 



var. trilincata Brun., Rec. Ind. Mus. VI, 240 (1911). 

 Id., Fauna Brit. Ind., 292, pi v, 2, wing, var. 

 Lfnicjue type of this variety in Indian Museum. 



ardens Wied., Dipt. Exot. I, 20, 9 {Clenophora) (1821). 

 Id., Auss. Zwcifl. I, 39, 9 {Clenophora). 

 Pselliophora, id., de Meij., Tijd. v. Ent. LIV, 61 : Brun., Rec. 

 Ind. Mus. VI, 238 {& noted): Alex., Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 XLTX. 179, pi. xlv, 31, wing. 



Batavia and environs, x [Jacobson] ; Lombok ; >Sumatra ; 

 Buitenzorg, iii-09 {Bryant and Palmer]. 



Type (a 9 ) in Wiedemann's collection : the d" was apparently 

 first described by me from a specimen in the Vienna Museum. 



nizing atrnfa as not congeneric with the other species of Ctenophora, retained 

 Xif>liiira with atraia .is type, and in ^•AecUnt:, flareointa F. as type o( Ctenophora 

 was I'ntircly wilhin his rights, and the latter species must be accepted .is genotype 

 of the genus in its generally accepted sense. As regards Tanyptera versus 

 Xipliura, on the grounds of continuity before priority 1 retain the latter as it has been 

 recognized for nearly ninety years. Ctenophora is almost certainly not oriental, but 

 it is as well to keep the name in the lists until the discovery of the ^ of Walkers 

 xantlionielana decides this question. 



' Some aithors erroneously report a figure of this species by Wiedemann. 



