120 SYBPHIDiE. 



orange- brown. Legs yellowish, a subapical brownish ring on hind 

 femora and an ill-defined broad median dark band on hind tibiae ; 

 hind tarsi darker. TFi«r/i' clear, with a dark brown oblong stigma; 

 tip of subcostal cell, tip of wing between tips of 2nd and 3rd 

 veins or thereabouts, anterior cross-vein and a streak from bifur- 

 cation of 2nd and 3rd veins down to upper margin of anal cell, 

 brownish. The wing-markings subject to individual variation. 



Length, 8-12 mm. 



Eedescribed from various specimens of both sexes, in excellent 

 condition, in the Indian Museum, and from other sources. Bhim 

 Tal, 45(»0 ft., 22-27. ix. 1906, type $ of tinctipennis (Annandcde); 

 Simla Hills, SOOO-9000 ft. (Annandcde, Kemp); Lebong, 4500 ft., 

 2-9 & 26. vi. 1909 (Hotvlett}- Mussoorie, x. 1906 ; Darjiling, 

 6900 ft. (Bnmetti); 6000-7000 fr., 12. vi. 1914 {Gravely); Kur- 

 seono;, 5000 ft. {Annandale); Siliguri ; Shilloiig, 5500-6400 ft., 

 29. viii.-5. ix. 1915 {Kemp) ; 5000 ft., ix. 1917 {Fletcher) ; Cherra- 

 puuji, Assam, 4400 ft. (A'emp) ; above Tura, Garo Hills, 3500- 

 3900 ft., 15. vii.-30. viii. 1917 {Kemp)-, ix. 1917 {Mrs. Kemp). 

 Some specimens taken by me at Kobe, Japan, 15. v. 1906, may 

 belong to this species' 



Walker's type in the British Museum is labelled "East Indies,'' 

 which is utiderstood to mean East India and is in very indifferent 

 condition, but tbe identity of my tinctipennis with this species is 

 certain. He gave the length as 8 lines, but his type measures 

 only 12 mm. My tinctipennis was described from a single $ in 

 the Indian Museum, but numerous other specimens have come 

 before me. 



96. Baccha robusta, Brun. 



Bacclia robusta, Brunetti, Eec. Ind. Mus. ii. p. 50 (1908) ; i, pi. xi, 

 tigs. 3, abdomen, 4, head (1907). 



d. Bead: frons above antennae triangular, nearly wholly 

 occupied by a shining black triangle ; the remainder grey ; vertex 

 shining black ; below antennae, dull black when seen from below, 

 but brilliant, sliiiiing, silvery-white when seen from above. Eyes 

 subcontiguous at nearest point of approacli, rather widely separated 

 at vertex. Antennae bright red, tip of 3rd joint brown above. 

 Thorax: dorsum cinereous, with three darker stripes, of which 

 only the centre one attains the fore border. Humeral calli 

 testaceous ; sides of thorax grey. Scutellum dull testaceous. 

 Abdomen only slightly contracted at base ; 2nd and 3rd segments 

 pale tawny, posterior borders widely blackish, 4th segmeut wiiolly 

 black, with an arched band of pale shining grey, interrupted in 

 the middle, near base ; extreme posterior border of segment brown. 

 Legs black ; four anterior femora, basal half of hind femora, and 

 basal half of all the tibiae, yellowish-tawny; tips of anterior femora 

 sometimes darkened above. Wings cle-Av; stigma yellow; halteres 

 yellowish. 



