304 THKREYID.E. 



border, uot meeting on the disc ; according to the light tlie 

 tibdouien above appears deep black or dark brown ; 2nd segment 

 with a distinct silky-white niai'gin. Ground-colour of venter 

 black, with a silvery sheen; the 1st segment white-haired on each 

 side; the hist one short, with black raised hairs. Femora blackish 

 brown, witli silvery-white hairs ; tibiae and tarsi pale yellowish 

 brown, front tarsi darkened. Wings as in S ; 4th posterior cell 

 closed. Length, 10 mm. Type 5 from East India, in Vienna 

 Museum." {Kroher.) 



This species is introduced to the British Indian fauna on the 

 strength of the $ recorded by Kriiber from East India. 



242. Psilocephala indica, Big. 



Psiloccphala indica. Bigot, Ann. Soc. Eiit. Frniice, (6) ix, p. 326 

 (188U). 



6 . " Antennte blackish, tlie two first segments furnished with 

 some black hairs ; ])roboscis and palpi blackish, these latter with 

 white hair; face black, covered with whitish tomentum ; beard 

 white ; thorax dull black, as well as scutellum, two grey stripes on 

 dorsum, sides of dorsum and sides of thorax with white tomentum ; 

 halteres brown, pale at tips ; abdomen dull black, with venter and 

 sides with white tomentum, the enjarginations of the segments 

 reddish ; femora black, tibiae pale tawny M'ith black tips ; tarsi 

 bi'own, inetatai'si pale tawny at base ; wings hyaline. 



$. "Eesembling the male; froiis black, whitish below, ab- 

 dominal segmentations paler. 



'•'India. Three S J , two $ §. Length, 10 mm." {Iligot.) 



243. Psilocephala ceylonica, Krnb. 



FsiloccjjJidla cri/hmica, Kriiber, Eut. Mitteil. Berl. i, p. i'51 (1912). 



cJ . " With sparse snow-white hairs throughout. Eyes abso- 

 lutely contiguous, rather large, shining green ; epistome and frons 

 snow-Avhite, witii silvery shimmer ; extreme margins of frontal 

 triangle velvet-black ; 1st antennal joint black, 2nd and 3rd dark 

 reddish brown, style black, bristles black. Thorax dull dark grey, 

 with a blackisli-brown median stripe, wliich is narrowly bordered 

 Avith whitish grey ; the short erect hairs are blackish, bristles 

 black; scutellum dark grey, blackish brown in centre; sides of 

 thorax silver-grey. Abdominal ground-colour deep velvet-black, 

 appearing wholly black or glistening silvery white according to 

 the direction of the light ; posterior margins of segments indis- 

 tinctly whitisli ; genitalia small, reddish; venter like dorsnm, 

 borders of segments distinct. Femora black, with silvery-white 

 ])ubescence ; tibia) and tarsi brownish yellow, front tibiae and tarsi 

 blackish brown, tips of posterior pairs darker. Wings with a 

 brown tinge, rather deeply yellowish brown on anterior margin ; 

 veins very strong, slightly infuscated ; 4th posterior cell closed in 

 one wing and open in the other ; halteres blackish brown, clubs paler. 

 Length, 12 mm. Colombo. Type in Hungarian Museum." (Krober.) 



