142 SYEPHIDili;. 



erect curved 3^ello«' bristly liairs ; chfetotaxy normal but weak, all 

 bristles brownish-orange. Abdomen shining black, tinged with 

 dark violet, finely punctate ; middle of 1st segment, 2nd and 3rd 

 segments towards sides rather broadly, 4th segment similarly but 

 more narrowly, also hind margins of 2nd and ^Jrd segments 

 narrowly, brownisli-yellow. Actual side margins of dorsum rather 

 broadly black, more or less curved underneath the venter. Whole 

 dorsum with very short yellow pubescence, that, of the yellowish 

 venter sparser and longer. Legs : coxae black with a little bright 

 j-ellow hair ; femora varying from yellowish to brownish, a little 

 darker on apical hidf of fore pair, especially on under side. Front 

 tarsi black; posterior tibiae and tarsi brownish-yellow. Pubescence 

 of legs yellow, with black hairs intermixed freely on front tibiae 

 and tarsi. Wwgs uniformly pale yellow ; stigma uniformly a 

 little deeper yellow ; halteres brown. 



Length, 9 mm. 



Described from a unique (apparent) $ in the Indian Museum, 

 from above Tura, Garo Hills, Assam, 3500-3900 ft., 15. vii.-30. 

 viii. 1917 {Kemp). 



Differing from ventralls, Wied., by the black coxae, the black 

 front metatarsus, the wholly yellowish middle legs, the more 

 blackish hind femora and tibiae, aud the uniformly pale yellow 

 \\ing with the stigma uniformly a little deeper yellow and not 

 darker at its inner end. 



114. Graptomyza sexnotata, Brun. 



Graptoinyza sexnotata, Bruuetti, llec. Ind. Mus. ii, p. 63, fiiTf. abdo- 

 men (i908j. 



2 . Head: frons, vertex and face entirely yellow, eyes blackish- 

 brown, with verv short greyish pubescence ; frontal space less 

 than one-third the width of the head. Antennae entirelj' uni- 

 formly dark yellow, with plumose orange arista. A dark brown 

 square spot on frons above the antenna; is continued as a stripe 

 below to the end of the rostrum ; a broad brown stripe on each 

 side of the epistome, which is barely as long as height of eyes. 

 Proboscis brown ; palpi pale yellow. Back and under side of 

 head yellow, centre part apparently black. Thorax orange- 

 yellow, the dorsum occupied by a shining black quadrate spot, 

 which leaves only a yellow anterior margin, wider lateral margins 

 and a squarish spot in front of the scutellum. A rather wide 

 dark brown vertical stripe extends from between the fore and 

 middle coxae to the lateral yellow edge of the dorsum, thence 

 curving backwards to just above and behind the root of the wing; 

 a shorter similar stripe is immediately below the wing-insertion, 

 with a roundish brown spot behind it. Dorsum nearly bare, a 

 few yellow hairs on pleurae; scutellum yellow, dorsum dark 

 brown, indented; some yellow liairs round the margin: (most of 

 the bristles are broken off, those that remain are yellow and 

 apparently normally placed). Abdomen orauge-yello\^■, with a 



