GRAPTOMTZA. 137 



5. Third and 4th abdonnnal segments all black 



except dull oranjio towards extreme side [p. 141. 



margins ; cox;e black micjustiinarf/inatu, sp. n., 



Second, 3rd and 4th abdominal segments 

 narrowly black on extreme side mar- 

 gins ; rest of ground-colour of dorsum 

 yellowish, with a large trans\erse spot 

 (i)eniralis\ or two large spots (se.v- 

 notata), on 2nd segment, and a pair of 

 large spots on ord and 4th, all these 

 spots filling a considerable part of the 

 surface, especially in ventralis; coxie 

 yellowish 6. 



6. Spots on 2nd, 3rd and 4th segments well 



separated sex7iotata, Brun., p. 142. 



Spots on 2nd segment united as one large 

 one ; those on 3rd and 4th segments 

 practically filling dorsum except for the 

 narrow black side margins and a narrow 

 longitudinal space between tliem ; emar- 

 ginations of 3rd and 4th, also of 4th 



and 5th, segments pale ventralis, Wied., var. 



nif/ri}ies, Brun., p. 143. 



109. Graptomyza flavonotata, Bnm. (Pi, III, fig. 18.) 



Graptomyzajlnvonotata, Brunetti, Bee. Ind. 31us. xiii, p. 8G (1917). 



2 . llead wholly lemon-yellow, sparsely beset with short, pale 

 hairs ; frons and face with ])arallel sides just over 7,- of head in 

 width ; vertical triangle black, ocelli red; ei)istoine about half as 

 long as height of eyes, with a few black stiff hairs at tip; proboscis 

 brownish-yellow, black towards tip. Antennae with first two 

 joints dark brown, bristly, upper half of 3rd joint dark brown, 

 lower half brownish, yellow arista microscopically pubescent ; 

 antennal prominence shining brownish-yellow with some stiff 

 black hairs. Thorax lemon-yellow; whole dorsum from anterior 

 to posterior margin, but leaving fairly broad side margins, shining 

 black, with rather dense short ])ale yellow pubescence ; two small 

 oval well separated lemon-coloured sj)ots on hind margin, ])laced 

 longitudinally. Scutellum yellow, with a slightly brownish tinge 

 and a marginal fringe of long stiff pale bristly hairs. Sides of 

 thorax black ; an inverted pear-shaped lenion-ydlow spot of con- 

 siderable size on sternopleura, with two smaller oval ones placed 

 longitudinally lower down, one under tiie larger spot, the other 

 below the wing-base; a round pale yellow spot on the propleura. 

 Bristles all very weak, yellow, apparently some may be absent ; 

 only one notopleural ; three side marginal, black, on scutellum 

 as in tinctoviitata. Abdomen brownish-yellow, darker brown on 

 apical half ; 2nd segment with three black sjiots on bind margin, 

 the outer two oval, placed longitudinally and clear of the 

 side margin, the middle one roughly triangular, the apex point- 

 ing forward ; 3rd segment with two similar oval side- 

 spots, the oval middle one ])laced nearly on anterior margin ; 



