CRASPEDOMETOPUX. TIXUA. 2D 



broader than long, finely punctate ; 1st segment very short, 2nd 

 three times as long as 1st, 3rd rather longer than 2nd, 4th and 

 5th subequal to tjrd ; genitalia small, concealed. Lerin moderately 

 strong, simple, pubescent. Wings normal ,; costa ending at tip 

 of 3rd vein ; axillary vein present. 



llanr/e. India, Formosa. 



C. frontale is the only known species. 



9. Craspedometopon frontale, Kert. (PI, I, figs. 5, 6.) 



Craspedometoiion frontale, Kertesz, Aim. Mas. Iliuig. vii. p. 375 

 pi. viii, tigs. 3, 4, 10 (1909). 



S $ . Head black, vertex and ocellar bump with yellow hair, 

 Avhich is shorter in $ ; frons in c5' dull black, with a yellowish- 

 Avliite hair-spot on each side above antennae contiguous to eye- 

 margin ; in 2 grey, with a median shining black ovjil depression 

 with its lower end pointed : white hair-spots as in c? ; epistoma 

 with yellowish pubescence; occiput with yellowish tomentum. 

 AnteuHiB with 1st and 2nd joints chestnut-brown, moderately 

 shining, 3rd darker, with yellow tomentum. Proboscis brownish 

 yellow ; 1st joint of palpi yellow, 2ud black. Thorax black above, 

 slightly shining ; in c? the greater part with very short whitish 

 pubescence, anterior margin and sides with shoi't black hair ; in 5 

 pubescence brassy yellow, thicker ; iu certain lights can be seen 

 three longitudinal stripes, connected in front, of which the 

 median one reaches the scutellura, outer ones diverging towards 

 side-margins ; pleurae black, more shining, but less punctate and 

 pubescent than dorsum; humeri reddish brown at tips. 8cutellum 

 concoiorous with thorax, equally pubescent; spines yellowish 

 brown at tips. Abdomen black, slightly shining, closely punctate, 

 with similar, but shorter, yellow ish-w hite pubescence. Legs brown, 

 pubescence yellow ; femora (except tips), upper side of front 

 tibiae, the middle and hind tibiae (except bases and tips) almost 

 black ; front tarsi with black pubescence on upper side. Winqs 

 and veins basally, up to middle of discal cell, blackish, remainder 

 yellowish ; lialteres brownish yellow. 

 Length, 4i-b mm. ; wings, 4^-8"2 mm. 



The above is a free translation of Kertcsz's description from a 

 large number of specimens from Formosa, iii-v. 190b (Sender). A 

 cJ and 2 ua,med by him are iu the Indian Museum ; also two 

 d" 6 from Tenasserim (Doherty) and a J from the Dariiling 

 District, 1000-3000 ft., v. 1912*(Loi-c^ Carmichael). 



Genus TINDA, W(dlc. 



Tinda, AValker, Proc. Linn. Soc. Lend, iv, p. 101 (1860). 

 Biastes, Walker, Ins. Saund. Dipt, i, p. 80 (1851) [/^ec Panz., 1806]. 

 Phijllophora, Mncquart, Mem. Soc. Sci. Lille, 1834, p. 507 (1835). 

 Eiasnia, Jaennicke, Abb. Senck. Nat. Ges. vi, p. 322 (18G7). 



Genotype, Biastes indica, 'Wulh. (as Tinda viodifera) ; by 

 original designation. 



Head more than semicirctilar, as wide as thorax ; eyes bare. 



