140 SYEPHID^. i; 



the apex of the short and very narrow 1st segment. A similar 

 band on 3rd segment, rest of abdomen black. Venter yellow, 

 with a few blackish marks. Legs wholly yellow, except the hind 

 00X86 rather obs^cure, a broad dark brown band on hind femora 

 leaving the knees narrowly pale, and hind tibije blackish-brown, 

 with base and tips narrowly yellow. Wings very pale grey ; a 

 brownish very short stripe from tip of auxiliai-y vein to 2nd 

 longitudinal vein, a second stripe from tip of 1st vein to (and 

 indistinctly including) the upturned end of lower branch of 4th 



Fig. 30. — Graptomysa tinctovittata, Brun., wing. 



vein, and a third stripe from tip of 2nd vein to, and including, 

 the upturned end of upper branch of 4th vein ; all these stripes 

 being narrow and indistinct yet perfectly obvious. The closed 

 anal cell very slightly infusoated at tip. Halteres brownish- 

 yellow. 



Length, 3 mm. 



Described from one specimen in the Indian Museum, sex 

 uncertain but probably $ , from Sukna, base of Darjiliug Hills, 

 500 ft., 1. vii. 1908 (Annandale). 



112. Graptomyza longirostris, Wied. 



Graptomijza lonyirostris, Wiedemann, Auss. Zweiti. ii, p. 208 

 (1830); Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. ii, p. 63, tig. abd. normal; 

 abd. var. Vl-notuta, mihi (1908) ; de Meijere, Tijd. v. Eut. 11, 

 p. 277 (1908). 



§ . Head orange-yellow ; frons and face of uniform width, 

 being ^ of head ; frons black except at sides, with a little yellow 

 pubescence ; a black median stripe from base of antennae, and a 

 short one on each side of epistome, but none of them i-eachiug 

 tip of snout ; this latter longer than height of eyes, proboscis 

 nearly twice as long as snout, conspicuously bifid at tip ; pro- 

 boscis black. Antenuse brownish-orange, upper half of 3rd joint 

 black ; arista orange, plumose. Thorax orange-yellow ; dorsum 

 with a large black subquadrate spot filling greater part of surface, 

 sometimes broadly reaching hind margin, with a short median 

 black stripe in front joining the spot to anterior margin ; 

 the yellow of the side stripe runs narrowly along suture for 

 a shoi-t distance on each side. Pleurae about equally black 

 and yellow, the area below humeri, and a very large triangular 

 spot on mesopleura, yellow ; the spot contiguous to base of wiug 

 and reaching posterior calli. Scutellum dull yellowish, a little 



