191 I.J Cj. Ricardo : The Oriental Tahanidae. 327 



little behind the middle cross- veins, is somewhat oblique, and is 

 narrower towards the fore border where it meets the posterior end 

 of the stigma, on the inner border it is abbreviated, behind it lies 

 the first streak which starting from the fore border, decreasing, 

 curves forward Ijow shaped and ends in the band ; the second 

 streak nearer the apex begins from the fore border close to the 

 apex of the second vein and runs curved forward, so that it gradu- 

 ally approaches the first one and ends on the inmost part of the 

 band ; the inner border of the wing is brown much further towards 

 the base than to the middle. Halteres white. Legs blackish brown, 

 base of tibiae white, posterior femora brown at the base, at the 

 apex to far be3'ond the half, honey yellow. In the Leyden 

 Museum. Wied., Auss. zweifl. Ins., i, p. 216. 



The reference given by Kertesz in both of his Catalogues, viz., 

 Cat. Tabanidarum, 1900, and Cat. Dipt., vol. iii, 1908, to v. d. 

 Wulp, Tijd. V. Entom. , xxxiv, p. 197, 1891, is incorrect. In Wulp's 

 Cat, of Oriental Diptera, 1896, there is no such reference against 

 H. cingulata, and I have not been able to find any reference to 

 this species b}^ v. d. Wulp, and it is unknown to me. It should be 

 an easily identified species by means of the wings which apparently 

 have not the usual rosettes, but are allied to those of H. rubida and 

 singular is, Ricardo. 



{B) Wings ivith the usual rosettes, the apical hand double. 

 Haematopota punctifera, Bigot, 



(PI. xvii, fig. 20.) 



Mem. Soc. Zool. France, v, p. 629 (1892) ; Ricardo, Ann. 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), xviii, p, 125 (1906). 



Antennae incomplete, blackish at base, first joint very short ; 

 face and palpi w^hitish ; forehead wide, dull black with gre}' tomen- 

 tum, and a large shining black callus above the antennae ; thorax 

 dark chestnut coloured with four greyish white stripes ; scutellum 

 brown, greyish in the middle ; abdomen blackish brown, sides of 

 segments, a narrow, interrupted, median stripe, and two spots on 

 each segment, greyish ; squamae grey, halteres brown ; legs brown, 

 tibiae pale yellow, black at apex, tarsi black, anterior tibiae almost 

 wholly black ; wings grey, with fine white marking (specimen 

 damaged). The shortness of the first antennal joint makes the 

 exact position of this species doubtful. Length 11 mm. : Java, one 

 specimen. Bigot, Mem. vSoc. Zool. France, p. 629. 



The following description was published by me after seeing 

 the type : — 



The antennae are incomplete; the first joint red, short, and 

 incrassate, the second one red, small. 



Face grey, with white hairs, no spots, but a dark brown band 

 between the eyes and the antennae. Palpi reddish, with black 

 pubescence. Frontal callus black, shining, reaching the eyes, 

 narrow, curved on the posterior border and produced to a point in 



