MELAXOSTOJIA. 



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pleura? aeneous, more or less yellowish-grey dusted ; whole thorax 

 with sparse yellowish-grey pubescence. Abdomen orange ; 1st seg- 

 ment black ; a narrow black hind margin to 2nd, lird and 4th 

 seo-ments in S , which in the $ is widened at sides up to about 

 middle of side margin (resembUng Melanostoma meUumm, Y., 

 though rather less conspicuous); u narrow median black stripe, 

 sometimes indistinct, on 2nd and 3rd segments in c? , on 4th 

 also in $ ; i>th segment in $ a small replica of 4th. A peculiar 

 feature in the $ is the presence of two large whitish spots, placed 

 side bv side, covering the 1st and 2nd segments and encroaching 

 on the 3rd, through which the ordinary markings of the 2nd 

 segment can be seen, these spots being sometimes absent or very 

 'faint. Genitalia in d" l:ii-ge, shining black, knob-like. Pubescence 

 of abdomen sparse, pale yellow. A^enter dull orange with indefinite 

 blackish marks. Li^gs: coxae blackish with grey dust; hind tibiae 



Fig. \-i. — Melanostoma univiliatum, WiecL, frons and face in prulile. 



indistinctly blackish about middle ; pubescence of legs pale yellow, 

 black on blackish part of hind tibiae. Wlngfi yellowish-grey ; 

 stigma barely appreciably darker; halteres orange. 



LeiKjOi, 5-0 mm. 



Described from a number of both sexes in the Indian Museum, 

 Piisa and otlier collections. Darjiling, 5900 ft. (Bnoietti); 

 Katmandu, Xepal ; Bhim Tal, 4450 ft.; Pusa, not uncommon, 

 i., ii., iii., xii.; Cbapra, Bengal ; Coorg, S. Iiulia, 15-2(1. x. 1015 

 (Fletcher); Bangalore, 3000 ft. ; Coromandel, 2500 ft. ; Xeduman- 

 gad, Travancore {AnmiwlaJe) ; Sadiya, Assam ; Sbillong, 5000 ft., 

 X. 1910 {Hetcher); Lower Burma; Mergui ; Dibrugarh, 17- 

 19. xi. 1911 (Kemp): Sarawak (Beehe). De Meijere records 

 planifacies 2 fi'om .Singapore, Ceylon, Sunuilra and (^)ueensland, 

 but no 6 . 



Three $ $ (one headless) in the Indian ]\Iuseuin, named 

 planifacies, Macq., by Bigot, are onlv rather small specimens of 

 univittatum ; tiiey come fnim Dehra l)u;i. 



Ty/;c in Copenhagen Museum (Ustc Wiedemann). 



