GEAPTOMYZ.' 



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and the stigma foviiiing togeMier a short broad stnpe ; a longer 

 dark brown stripe from near tip of 2n(l vein extending hindwards, 

 embracing outer side of discal cell and ending on Iniid margin ot 

 wing; a siiort third stripe from tip of 3i-d vein ])assing along 

 outer side of the closed 1st posterior cell, reac-luiig 4th vein. 

 Halteres orange. 



Leiiqth, 6 mm. ^ . . 



Kedescribed from two $ § in the Indian Museum. Ailgu'i Mills. 

 3500 ft., V. 1010 {H. L. Andrewes): Cevlon ; Bank of Diliong 

 Eiver, Eotung, 1400 ft., 25. xii. 1911 (Kewp) : Tavoy, Tenassernn. 

 xii. 1897 {Binqham) ; Taungoo, Lower Burma, v. 1918 (Buigham); 

 Singapore (lUdh'>i). Described by Wiedemann froiu Wester- 

 mann's collection,' from .lava: also recorded from the jNicobars. 



The abdominal black bands vary from a practically line:ir band 

 (with a slight subtriangular projection on the anterior margin) on 

 the hind margins of 2nd and 3rd segments, to a band of which 

 the anterior margin forms three conspicuous curves which nearly 

 touch the front, margin of the segment. The band on the 4th 

 segment is similar to that on the 3rd, but the middle curve is 

 truncate anteriorly instead of bluntlv conical as on 2nd segment. 

 The markings of the 4th segment are pretty constant m all the 

 varieties, consisting of a median and two side stripes all black, of 

 moderate width and reaching from about anterior to hind margin. 



111. Graptoniyza tinctovittata, Bnm. 



Grapfomyza tmctovittata, Brunetti, llec. Ind. Mus. xi, p. 227, 

 pi. xiii, fig. 10, wing (li)!;")). 



$ . IJead pale lemon-yellow ; face with a shining brown median 

 stripe from antenufc to'mouth-horder ; snout about half as long 

 as lieight of eves ; proboscis short. Occiput black, the colour 

 encroaching narrowlv on the vertex. Frons with a very large 

 subquadrat.', blackish-brown, moderately shining spot, which 

 occupies nearlv all the surface, not contiguous to the eyes, but 

 extending downwards to the root of the antenna?; this square 

 spot joined to the vertex by a short, broad stripe embracing 

 the ocelli. Eyes sparsely and microscopically hairy. Antenna) 

 brownish-yellow, upper side a little brownish, arista bare. Thora.v 

 shining black, with short yellowish-grey pubescence; side margins 

 and posterior mai-gin of dorsum narrowly jiale yellow. Shoulders 

 with a yellow callus, and tliere is an elongate perpendicular 

 yellow spot on tlir mesopleura, just before the wing and united 

 to the yellow margin of the tliorax. Scutellum shining black. 

 Presutural bristle apparently absent, also hind marginal dorsal 

 ones, but some longer, sti'lf yellow hairs ther(> ; notopleural 

 bristles rather wider apart than "usual : scutellum with three side 

 marginal, the last one nearly ajjical ; all the bristles black. 

 Abdomen bright yellow, 2nd segment with a broad black band on 

 posterior border, widest in the middle, where it extends nearly to 



