EUBA. — CLITELLAlilA. 



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23. Eiiba inflata, Wall. 



JRuha injlata, Walker, Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. iv, p. 101 (1860). 



2 , Head : frons and face one-third of head, uuiformly wide 

 except for a slight contraction slightly above base of antennae ; 

 oc^'ilar triangle very small, black; an oval brown longitudinal 

 mark on frons just above the orange anteiuise, of irregular shape, 

 continued as a tine line to the ocellar triangle ; whole head 

 brownish orange ; proboscis with very large labella ; tips of palpi 

 rounded, flattened, rather large, deep black;* whole head with 

 rather short, moderately dense, but not conspicuous, yellow pubes- 

 cence. Thorax and scutellum all brownish orange, u ith rather dense 

 yellow pubescence; traces of three longitudinal narrow blackish 

 lines oil dorsum. Abdomen brownish orange, with yellow pubes- 

 cence. Le(i>- \elIowish orange, with yellow pubescence; apical 

 hiilP of hind tibiae bl.-ick, with black pubescence ; the tiny bristles 

 at the tips of the tarsi give them a blackish appearance Wivgs 

 pale yellow, apical half (except extreme tip) rather bright brown, 

 darker anteriorly ; a quadrate dark brown spot of modera e size 

 at tip of Ist basal cell, extending to the costa ; anterior margin 

 of basal half of wing a little deeper yellow. 



LetKjtli, 9 mm. 



Described from a perfect female in the Indian Museum from 

 (xhuinti, Darjiling District, lOUO ft., vii. 1911 {Gravely) ; and one 

 in inferior condition from Kohima, As^am. 



Walker described the species from Makassar, in Celebes, and 

 the only descrepancy is that he says nothing . about the black 

 apical half of the hind tibiae. 



Genus CLITELLARIA, %. 



Clitellaria, Meigen, Illig. Mag. ii, p. 26o (1803). 

 Adoxomyia, Kertesz, Ann. Mus. Hung, v, p. 499 (1907) ; num. 7iov. 

 for Clitellaria, Scb., 7iec Mg. 



Genotype, Clitellaria dahlii, Mg. (Europe) ; designated by 

 Bezzi, Wien. ent. Zeit. xvii, p. 75 (1908). f 



Head : eyes densely pubescent, contiguous in m;de, wide apart 

 in female; prohoscis retracted, witli moderately broad labella; 

 palpi 2-jointed, 1st joint thick, kidney-shaped, '2nd narrow, conical; 

 epistoma slightly arched. Antennae elongate, 1st and 2nd joints 

 subequal ; 3rd elongate conical, with four annulations, with two- 



* The palpi lie along the lower side of tlie face and the conspicuous black 

 tips look like two black spots on it, Walker evidently uiistciking tbem for such 

 as he mentions "a black s| ot on each side of tlae luoutli." 



t [It seems necessary to point ouf that this designation is entirely at variance 

 with the generally accepted rules of zoological nomenclature. Meigen, when 

 describing Clitellaria. definitely designated ephippium, F., as tlie genotype, 

 and no subsequent action on the part of Meigen hinisself or anyone else can 

 alter thiit fact. The correct designation for the pi'esent genus is therefore 

 Adoxomyia, Kert., and the species dps<;ribed above (p. 46) as tphippium tnlinc- 

 atum should stand as Clitellaria hdincata, F.--Ed.] 



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