6 Records of the Indian Museum. [\'Ol. IV, 



Wings with short fork-cells, nearly equal in length ; the first 

 submarginal narrower than the second posterior, its base a little 

 nearer the apex of the wing, its stem nearly as long as the cell, stem 

 of the second posterior as long as the cell, about one-and-a-half 

 times its own length distant from the mid. Halteres with a pale 

 testaceous stem, fuscous scales towards the white knob. 



Length 6 mm. 



Habitat Balighai near Puri, Orissa. 



Time of capture 24-X-08 [Annandale). 



Observations. — Described from a single perfect 9 . It is a 

 typical Desvoidea and can be told at once by the very pronounced 

 apical yellow abdominal bands. 



18. Brevirhynchus magnus, Theob. (Pis. ii and iii, wing and wing 



scales.) 



Rec. Ind Mus., ii, p. 293, 1908. 



Additional Localities and Dates. 



I'he Himalayas.— Sukna, 500 feet, base of E. Himalayas, 

 Darjiling district, i-vii-08, " in thick jungle" (Annandale). 



Travancore. — Maddathorai, w. base of W. Ghats, i7-xi-o8 

 [Annandale) (i 9 ). 



19. Brevirhynchus annulipalpis, sp. nov. 



Thorax black with scanty dull golden scales, arranged in 

 rather obscure lines, sides and front of the mesonotum pale scaled; 

 pleurae with patches of white scales. Head black, pale in middle. 

 The rather long black palpi with a snow-white band. Proboscis 

 black, unhanded. Abdomen black with snowy white bands near 

 the apex of some of the segments and with long thin lateral creamy 

 spots. Legs dark with basal pale bands and pale chsetcC. 



9 . Head clothed with rather large, loose, flat dark scales, 

 showing dull violet reflections, similar creamy ones forming a 

 narrow median area, some creamy ones around the eyes and small 

 almost white lateral flat scales, a few thick black chsetcC at the 

 eye borders and golden ones between the eyes ; clypeus dark with 

 small flat pale scales; proboscis rather short, thick and uniformly 

 black, metallic. Palpi about half the length of the proboscis, 

 black with metallic violet reflections, a broad white band about the 

 middle and a narrow creamy one nearer the base ; antennae black, 

 basal segment and base of the second bright testaceous, the former 

 with small flat dark and creamy scales. Thorax black, clothed 

 with long narrow-curved black, coppery and creamy scales, the 

 latter in rather indistinct lines, sides of the mesonotum with rather 

 broader pale creamy curved scales, which also pass around the 

 front; the scales are larger, long and lanceolate over the roots of 

 the wings, creamy and violet; dense dark brown chsetse also over 

 the roots of the wings ; scutellum large, clothed with loosely ap- 

 plied flat violet and creamy scales and with rich brown border 



