DOLICnOCEPHALA. — XRICnOPEZA. 371 



305. Dolichocepliala septemnotata, Bnm. (P]. IV, figs, 19-21.) 



DoUchocephala septemnotata, Briinetti, Ilec. Ind. Mus. ix, p. 35 

 (1913). 



S . Ilead blackish ; frons broad, some stiff hairs on both frous 

 and occiput ; epistome (the whole of the head below the eyes) 

 conical, short, lialf the height of the rest of the head. Antennae 

 black ; 3rd joint conical, with long black thick arista, microscopi- 

 cally pubescent : no palpi apparent. Thorax and ahdomen wholly 

 black, moderately shining, practically bare, except for a few stiff 

 hairs laterally on the former ; genitalia small, rounded, simple. 

 Leys pale yellowish, upper side of fore femora and tips of tarsi a 

 little brownish. WhKjs very pale brown, with seven very distinct 

 moderate-sized circular pale spots ; six of these are placed in two 

 parallel rows of three in each; the upper row just above the 3rd 

 longitudinal vein, the lower row a little above tlie hind margin of 

 the wing, so that the spots appear like three pairs situated longi- 

 tudinally ; the 1st pair {i. e. the basal spots of both rows) is 

 situated a little before the middle of the wing ; the 2nd pair a 

 little beyond the middle; the 3rd pair half-way between the 2nd 

 pair and the wing-tip, the upper spot being in the middle of the 

 submarginal cell ; of the spots in the longer row, the first is 

 placed a little before, the second a little beyond the lower branch 

 of the 5th longitudinal vein ; the third is in the middle of the 

 2nd posterior cell ; the seventh spot is near the wing-tip, at 

 the end of the 1st posterior cell ; the 3rd, 4th, and 5th longi- 

 tudinal veins are all wavy, the 3rd is forked at two-thirds the 

 length of the wing, the subniarginal cell narrowed in the middle, 

 with the marginal cross-vein just beyond the cell's base, uniting it 

 to the 2nd longitudinal vein just before its tip ; the 4th longi- 

 tudinal vein, although wavy, is mainly in a straight line, and 

 divides the wing into nearly equal parts, ending just below the 

 wing-tip ; anterior cross-vein very near base oi wing ; posterior 

 cross-vein at middle of wing, joining the upper branch of the 

 widely-forked 5th vein soon after the furcation ; anal cell oblong, 

 very short ; halteres brownisli yellow. 



Leur/ih, 1 i mm. 



Described from one d in the Indian Museum from Simla, 

 10. v. 1909 {Annandale). 



Genus TRICHOPEZA, Bond. 

 Tricopeza, Rondani, Dipt. Ital. Prod, i, p. 150 (1856) {emend.). 



GE^o'rY:PE, Brachystoma lomjicornis, Mg. (Europe); by original 

 designation. 



Head, a little broader than long, slightly broader than thorax ; 

 eyes occupying whole front of head, shortly pubescent, separated 

 above antennae iu both sexes, contiguous below for some distance, 

 frontal facets in both sexes enlarged. Proboscis thin, nearly 



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