238 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vol. IV, 



? Atylot'us pyrrhoceras, 9 , Bigot, Ann. Soc. Entom. France 

 (6), vii, Bullet. Ixxvii (1887). 



Tahanus huddha, 9 , Portschinsky, Horae vSoc. Entom. Ross., 

 xxi, 181 [Budda] (1887) ; id., xxvi, p. 202 (1891). 



Black brown. Eyes naked. Antennae broad, ferruginous 

 red ; palpi luteous, with reddish yellow hairs ; face, forehead and 

 dorsum of thorax with reddish yellow hairs ; abdomen with reddish 

 yellow and reddish yellow haired segmentations, the posterior 

 segments wholly reddish yellow haired ; femora black-brown, the 

 apices yellowish; tibiae 3'ellow, the anterior pair blackish at the 

 apex, anterior tarsi black, the posterior one dark yellow ; wings 

 brown. lyength of body gf lines, of wings 8| lines. 



Black-brown, but not wholly dark. Head with reddish yellow 

 pubescence. Eyes naked. Antennae ferruginous red, the first 

 joint arched (fornicatus), the third broad, the broad joints with 

 short black hairs. Palpi yellow, clothed with very short reddish 

 yellow hairs. Forehead narrow, the callus oblong below, continued 

 upwards as a long stripe. Thorax on dorsum reddish yellow haired, 

 more frequently with hairs intermixed towards the posterior 

 margin. vScutellum with black hairs. Pleurae the same. Abdo- 

 men black-brown, anteriorh^ with short black hairs, the posterior 

 margin of the first segment dull reddish yellow , at the sides reddish 

 yellow haired, the posterior margins of the remaining segments 

 reddish yellow and with reddish yellow pubescence ; with the fourth 

 segment almost wholh* and the following ones wholly reddish yellow 

 haired ; under side black-brown, with short black pubescence, with 

 all the segmentations except the first one reddish yellow, and with 

 pale reddish yellow pubescence. Femora brownish black with black 

 hairs, the apices yellowish and with ferruginous hairs, the tibiae 

 luteous, with pale yellow hairs, the anterior ones with blackish 

 apex and ferruginous pubescence; anterior tarsi brow^n-black, the 

 posterior ones duh luteous. Halteres black-brown. Wings brown, 

 the first longitudinal vein yellowish, the third one with no appendix, 

 stigma hardly distinct, the discal cell longer than is usual in most 

 large European .species. From Japan. Loew, Wien. Entomol. 

 Monatschr., ii, p. 103, 5. 



Tahanus buddha is recorded from Chinese Mongolia and des- 

 cribed in Latin in Horae Soc. Entom. Ross., xxi, and the following 

 was published in the t wen t\-- sixth volume in Russian, the transla- 

 tion of which I procured through a friend from Mr. Avlmer 

 Maude :— 



The well-known dipterologist V. v. Roder, in a private 

 letter among other things, kindh* informed me that in his opinion, 

 the above-named species described by me, is no other than the 

 Tahanus chrysurus described by Eoew from Japan. There is not 

 the least doubt of the great resemblance of the two species ; yet it 

 seems to me certain, nevertheless, that they are different species. 

 Not having a Tahanus chrysurus at hand, I can only point out the 

 differences between the two species ; basing m^^self on a comparison 

 of my specimens of the Tahanus buddha, with Loew's description 



