138 SYEPIIID^. 



•ith segment with a pair of oval side-spots considerably obscui'ed 

 by the brownish groimd-colour ; whole abdomen minutely pale 

 pubescent. Legs lemon-yellow, hind coxae and tips of tarsi 

 blackish ; tip ot hind femora broadly, and hind tibite and tarsi 

 wholly, black. The minute pubescence is yellow and black respec- 

 tively, agreeing with that of the ground-colour. Wings almost 

 clear, stigma pale brown ; halteres lemon-yellow. 



Lengtli, ?)h mm. 



Described from a single specimen in the Indian Museum, taken 

 between Kufri and Phagu, Simla District, 21. v. 1916 [Annandale 



110. Graptomyza brevirostris, Wied. 



Graptomiiza hrevirostris, Wiedemann, Auss. Zweitl. ii, p. 209 

 (1830)'; de Meijere, Tijd. v. Ent. li, p. 277 (1908). 



$ . Head : frons and face jointly very gradually narrowing 

 from vertex to snout, at no place quite g of the head, both 

 yellow ; frons with a large oblong black spot leaving only side 

 margins narrowly yellow ; a short narrow stripe connecting it 

 with vertex ; a broad black stripe, filling fully middle third of 

 face, from base of antennae to tip of the comparatively shoi't 

 snout, which is from half to two-thirds as long as height of eyes ; 

 cheeks black but hind corners of lower part of head yellow. Eyes 

 microscopically pubescent. Antennae black, 3rd joint dull orange 

 below, sometimes all black ; arista bare, orange, tip blackish. 

 Occiput black, margin nearly bare; pubescence of head j^ellovv, 

 short. Thorax shining blackish ; sides of dorsum, liind margin, 

 humeri and a small contiguous spot on inner side of them, a small 

 isolated spot below each humerus, posterior calli, and a short 

 vertical broad stripe on nsesopleura, yellow. Pubescence short, 

 whitish ; scutellum black, hind margin more or less brownish, 

 with long upcurved black bristles ; choetotaxy normal. Abdomen 

 orange-yellow ; 2nd segment with a broad black band on hind 

 margin, extending forward in middle and towards sides, but clear 

 of side margins, in the shape of three blunt triangles nearly 

 attaining front margin of segment, the colovu* extending along 

 the extreme side margins of segments 3 and 4 almost to tip of 

 abdomen ; 3rd segment with a similar cross-band to that of 2nd, 

 but the band is emarginate in centre of hinder side, thus forming 

 a rather large yellow triangle; 4th segment with three longitudinal 

 elongate black spots, the median one nearly attaining front 

 margin, the outer ones foreshortened, all of them nearly reaching 

 hind margin and well separated from one another and from the 

 black extreme side margin of segment. Venter practically all 

 yellowish ; pubescence of abdomen whitish. Legs all yellow ; 

 coxae, apicnl half of hind femora and all hind tibiae black. Wings 

 pale grey ; stigma smoky-black, small but moderately distinct ; 

 there is a small similarly shaped spot in the cell below, this spot 



