120 PROF. M. BEZZl. 



entirely wanting, thus showing relation with Mellesis deslillatoria. Second basal cell 

 much longer than broad, thus showing remoteness from Chaetodacus and Dacus 

 [s. sfr.). 



vi. Callantra, Walker (1860). 



This genus is unknown to me ; Hendel* has it (as Calantra) among those with 

 unarmed femora. It is very probable that this genus may coincide with one or the 

 other of the two preceding genera ; but Walker says : " Antennae long, seated on a 

 common petiole or first joint, with which the succeeding part forms a right angle." 

 Until it is proved that this is an error of observation, we must consider the genus as a 

 distinct one. The type species, C. smicroides (smieroides) is from Makassar. 



vii. Neosophira, Hendel (1914). 



This genus also has not yet been found in India. It has the general facies of Adrania, 

 but is distinguished by the interrupted thoracic suture and by the unarmed femora, 

 if'his and the two following genera belong to a special tribe, which is very different 

 from the true Dacinae, as is to be seen from the narrow elongate body, the plumose 

 arista, the elongate and triangular scutellum, the elongate and thickened middle 

 femora, the narrow second basal cell and the short point of the anal cell. The two 

 following genera have besides a complete, uninterrupted thoracic suture and spinose 

 femora. 



viii. Adrama, Walker (1859). 



This genus is of economic importance, one of the species being the so-called tea- 

 seed fly {A. deferminata, Walk.), which, as observed in West Java, has done much 

 damage in destroying tea-seeds {Meded. v. h. Proefstation voor Thee, xxxv, March 1915). 

 Three species are at present known, only the following being Indian. 



26. Adrama austeni, Hendel (1912).t 



Very near A. determinata, but distinguished by the black occiput and by the much 

 narrower apical dark spot of the wings. 



Originally described from Ceylon, I have seen a male specimen collected at 

 Peradeniya, by Prof. Buguion. 



ix. Meracanthomyia, Hendel (1910). 



Very near the preceding genus, but differing in the very elongate antennae, which 

 are shaped as in Monacrostichus, in the compressed, not depressed, ovipositor, the 

 short face, the produced mouth-border, and in the middle femora being spinose for 

 their whole length. Two Indian species of the present genus are known : M. maculi- 

 pennis, Macquart (1851), from East India, and M. gamma, Hendel {Wien. ent. Zeit., 

 xxix, 1910, p. 107, pi. 1, fig. 13) from Ceylon. A third species, M. antennala, Hendel 

 (Wien. entom. Zeit., xxxi, 1912, p. 11) from Ashanti, West Africa, is the unique 

 representative of the present tribe in the Ethiopian region. 



*Wien. Ent. Zeit., xxxiii., 1914, p. 74. 

 ^Wien. Ent. Zeit., xxxi, p. 12. 



