122 STTipniD.i:. 



as thorax, shining bkiish-hlaclv with very short inconspicuous 

 pubescence ; base of 3rd, 4th and 5th segments with a moderately 

 broad lead-coloured band. Lerjs yellow; an indistinct broad 

 brownish ring on apical half of hind femora ; apical half of hind 

 tibiae blackish except broadly at tip; upper side of liind metatarsi 

 brown, rest of hind tarsi black. Wings clear; subcostal cell dark 

 brown except on the narrow basal part ; halteres yellow. 



Length, 8^^ mm. 



Described from one perfect $ in the Indian Museum from 

 Cherrapunji, Assam, 2-8. x. 1914 (Kemp). 



98. Baccha sapphirina, Wied. 



Baccha srt/>;Vie/-t«rt,Wiedemann, Aiis. Zweifl. ii, p. 96 (1830); Yerrall, 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. p. 415 (1898). 



S $ . Head shining black, but with the frous more or less 

 narrowly round sides in the 6 , and broadly across centre in $ , 

 also with the outer third on each side of face in 5 , dusted with 

 blue-grey, leaving a broad shining median black stripe. Antennae 

 bright orange ; proboscis black ; postocular fringe white. Thorax 

 shining aeneous-black, dorsum with short white pubescence ; 

 scutellum similar, rather more cupreous in S ; pleurae with greyish 

 dust and a little white pubescence. Abdomen mainly shining 

 black ; 1st segment deep bhie, 2nd aeneous, 3rd aeneous on basal 

 half, 4th broadly blue-greyish at base and less distinctly so at tip ; 

 also 5th and 6th segments wholly blue-grey. Pubescence whitish, 

 longer at base and towards sides, shortest on dorsum. Legs orange; 

 apical half of hind femora and of hind tibiae, and tips of hind tarsi, 

 to a greater or less extent blackish. Wings quite clear; sub- 

 costal cell wholly, and a moderately small, detached, clear-cut 

 spot at tip of submarginal cell, always limited hindwards by 3rd 

 vein, black ; halteres conspicuously yellow. 



Length, 8 mm. 



Eedescribed from three Indian specimens and a series in good 

 condition in the British Museum fro]n various localities in Africa. 

 Coimbatore, S. India, vii. 1911 ; Abu, Rajputana {Nurse) ; Deesa, 

 X. 190 1 {Nurse). Recorded also from Ceylon and Aden {Yerbury). 



Type in Copenhagen Museum. 



99. Baccha pulchrifrons, Aust. 



Baccha pulvhrifrons, Austen, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. p. 139, pi. iv, 

 figs. 10 (full insect col., (S), 10 a (head, J), 11 (full insect col., $ ) 

 (1893). 



Baccha apicenotafa, Brunetti, Pec. Ind. Mus. xi, p. 221, 5 > ph xiii, 

 fig-. 8, part of wing (1915). 



"In c? , front, upper part of the face immediately below the 

 antennae, and a broad facial stripe reaching to the oral margin 

 steely. In $ , front, including whole circumference of anteinii- 

 ferous projection and a facial stripe, narrower than in the J , but 



