112 STRPHID^i:. 



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the wing-tip. It is distinguished from Syritta by the non- 

 thickened hind femora ; from Bacdui and allied genera by the hiud 

 femora being spiaose, and by possessing the stumps of veins near 

 the wing-tip and tbe separated eyes in the S • The following is 

 the only species. 



89. Spheginobacclia macropoda, Big. 



Spheqina macrojyoda, Bigot, Ann. Soc. Eut. France, (6) iii, p. 331 



(1883). 

 Spheqinobaccha ??iac/-o^jof/rt, de Meijere, Tijd. v. Eut. li, p. 327, S $, 



notes (1908). 



S $ . Head : frons in S shining blue-black with black hair, 

 in $ shining blue-black, with a white dust-spot in the middle on 

 each side touching the eye-margins ; frons with a deep transverse 

 furi-ow; eyes with a little pale pubescence; epistome not pro- 

 duced, but with a median tubercle at about middle of face ; the 

 latter black with a little white tomentum at sides. Antennae 

 tawny, 3rd joint rather large, broadly oval, tip obtuse; arista 

 bare, blackish-brown. Thorax black, slightly shining; humeral 

 calli prominent, tawny ; a lateral straight line above the wing* 

 and a transverse band on the pleurte, tawny ; scutellum pale 

 tawny. Abdomen moderately shining black ; segments finely 

 bordered with tawny ; 2nd and 3rd segments with a wide squarish 

 tawny spot, rounded on inner sides, on each side ; 4th with a 

 pair of broad spots leaving only a narrow median space, or united 

 to form a broad oblique band, the spots visible through the white 

 dust on the segment. Leys : hind femora elongate, a little in- 

 crassate, not clavate, with small spines below ; hind metatarsi 

 relatively thick and elongate. Legs in 6 yellow ; tips of fore and 

 middle femora, apical half of hind femora, and all tibiae and 

 tarsi, black ; in § , tips of fore femora a little brownish *. Wings 

 with 2nd and 3rd veins gently curved ; 1st posterior cell closed a 

 little before Ming-tip ; outer side of this cell curved inwards, with 

 a stump ot a vein at its greatest convexity, another at the flexure 

 of the 4th vein and a third on the lower side of the cell towards 

 the end ; anterior cross-vein much before middle of discal cell ; 

 latter with lower outer angle somewhat rounded ; costal cell aud 

 whole of wing-tip rather narrowly, brownish ; stigma brown. 



Length, 11 mm. 



The above description is compiled from those of Bigot and de 

 Meijere. Tgpe in Bigot collection, from Burma ; de Meijere's 

 specimen is from Semarang, Java, October {Jacobson). 



* Desoriptioa of legs by de Meijere. Bigot writes, "Femora tawny, tibi^ 

 whitish, broadly black at tips, tarsi black.'' 



