EPHIPPIUM. — NEGRITOMYIA. 4/ 



width of bead, sides parallel, sliiniiig black, with a small patch of 

 wbite pubescence in middle. Thorax shining black or blue-black, 

 closely punctulate : dorsum witli blackish-brown pubescence and 

 t\\'o moderately wide well-separated stripes from anterior margin 

 to bind margin, or even indistinctly carried over part of the 

 scutelluin, composed of very short whitish-grey pubescence ; 

 humeri rather prominent, shining bright brown, bare ; sides of 

 thorax shining black, mainly covered \^ith longer or shorter \^hitish- 

 grii^y pubescence. Scutellum concolorous M-itli dorsum, bind mar- 

 gin with a little grey pubescence; the spine at each hind corner 

 strong, long, black, and pubescent. Ahdomen shining black or 

 blue-black, closely punctulate, with dark brown pubescence on 

 dorsum and longer whitish-grey pubescence at sides and on the 

 concolorous venter ; a tendency to form a hair-spot towards sides 

 of each segment, especially on 3rd and 4th ; underside of last 

 seg^nent bare, shining. Ler/s black, shortly grey pubescent ; tips 

 of tarsi brown below. Wings with base narrowly, costal cell, 

 base of 1st basal cell and the axillary cell, clear ; rest of wing 

 dark brown, a little paler on hind margin; 5th vein rather more 

 deeply infuscated ; halteres pale yellow. 



Lenrfth, 9-14 nun. 



Described from several specimens in the Indian Museum : 

 Tenasserim (DoJiert;/); Semarang, Java, viii. 1*J09, and Depok, 

 Java, X. 1907 (Jacohson). 



Genus NEGRITOMYIA, Big. 



Ni(/ritomyia, Bigot, Bull. Soc. Ent. France, (5) vii, p. Ixxiv (1877). 

 Negritomyia, Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (5) ix, p. 190 (1879). 



GETf OTYPE, Ephippium macidijienne, Macq . ; by original de- 

 signation. 



Antennse nearly cylindrical, base a little pubescent, 1st and 2nd 

 segments subequal, 1st much shorter than 3rd, arista apical, about 

 as long as the whole antenna, densely, shortly, and uniformly 

 pubescent. Eyes contiguous in c? , distinctly apart in $ , densely 

 pubescent in both sexes. Thorax with a long spine on each side ; 

 scutellum with two long spines. Wings with four endings to the 

 4th longitudinal vein, all reaching the border. 



Range. Africa, Ceylon, Malay Archipelago, Australia. 



22. Negritomyia maculipennis, Macr[. 



Epliippium mac.uU2)enne, Macquart, Dipt. Exot. Supp. iv, p. 54 



(1849), c?. 

 Negritomyia maculipennis, Brunetti, Eec. Ind. Miis. i, p. 114 (1907),^ 

 & vii, p. 451 (1912). 



5 . Head black, with a little short whitish pubescence ; eyes 

 black, sliortly pubescent ; frons at vertex about one-fifth the width 

 of the head, widening at level of antenna? to nearly one-third ; an 

 indistinct whitish mark above each antenna ; palpi black, with 



