226 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vo.. XI, 
SPHEGINOBACCHA, Meij. 
Tijd. v. Ent. li, 327 (1908). 
Neat Ascia and Sphegina. One species is referred here, 
Sphegina macropoda, Big. Meijere figures this, /.c. pl. vili, 43, 
and records a o@ and @ from Semarang [Jacobson]. 
RHINGIA. 
Rhingia binotata, Brun. 
Only the @ was described originally. The ° has appeared 
from the banks of the Siyom River, near Yekshi (N.-E. Front. 
India), 3-ii-12, taken by Mr. Kemp on the Abor Expedition. In 
the Indian Museum. 
R. sexmaculata, sp. nov. @, described by me (Rec. Ind. 
Mus., viii, 163, 1913) from a single @ from Dibrugarh, Assam, 
17-xi-11 [Kemp]. Tvpe in Indian Museum. 
Subfamily VOLUCELLINAE. 
Volucella pellucens, L. 
One o of this very common European species from Takula, 
Kumaon District, Western Himalayas. Not previously recorded 
from India. In the Forest Zoology Coll My basalis is very 
near it, but the distinctions stated in my description of the | 
species hold good. 
Meijere records V. ¢rifasciata, Wied , from Semarang and 
discolor, Brun. from Japan. 
GRAPTOMYZA, Wied. 
Meijere records G. longirostris, W., and brevirosiris, W., from 
Java, and adds a note on G. atrifes, Big.; whilst brevirosivis was 
taken by Mr. Kemp at Rotung, 1400 ft. (NE. Front. India), 
25-xii-If. It also occurs in the Nilgiri Hills. 
Graptomyza ventralis, W. var. nigripes, Brun. 
Gangtok, Sikkim, 6150 ft., g-ix-og, one @, and Kurseong, 
3-vii-o8 and 9-ix-og {Annandale}. In Indian Museum. Meijere 
records ventralis, Wied., from near Buitenzorg, Java. ; 
One @ from Sadiya, Assam, 27-xi-11 [Kemp]. Of the typical 
form Mr. Kemp took a @ at Rotung, 26-xit-II. 
Five new species have been recently described by Meijere: 
punctata (Tijd. v. Ent., li, p. 280, pl. viii, 28, 1908). Erima, 
Astrolabe Bay, Papua [ Biro]. 
Type in Hungarian Museum, a unique specimen. 
