336 Records of the Indian Museum. [Voi,. IV, 



of wing and is concave on its apical border, the round white spot 

 above the stigma is distinct and with no brown centre in the type, 

 in other specimens it is present as a half circle, three rosettes are 

 clearly formed and pale spots appear in the apices of the first, 

 third and fifth posterior cells, and smaller ones occasionally in 

 the others. 



Haematopota pachycera, $ , Bigot. 



Xouv. Archiv. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris (3), ii, p. 206 (1890) ; id. 

 Bull. Soc. Zool. France, xvi, p. 76 (1891) ; Ricardo, Ann. Mag. 

 Nat. Hist (8), i, p. 59 (1908). 



Length 8-|- mm. 



Antennae twice the length of head, yellow, the first joint some- 

 what incrassate, cylindrical, apex brown ; second joint stout, pyri- 

 form, compressed, apex brown ; others yellow, small. Palpi, beard 

 and face dull ashy grc}'. Forehead ash}- grey, at base with a 

 shining transverse yellow callus, brown at vertex with two frontal 

 black spots. Thorax ashy grey, with wide indistinct brown stripes ; 

 scutellum brown, abdominal segments with narrow grey borders, 

 and side spots irregular in shape, of same colour. Wings almost 

 black, with white markings. Legs brown, fore tibiae dull white at 

 base, intermediate and posterior tibiae pale yellow, at base apex 

 and ring brown. 



Antennae at least twice as long as head, yellow, the first joint 

 cylindrical, rather thick, black at apex, the second shorter, thick, 

 pyriform, truncated, laterally compressed, likewise black at its 

 apex, the last joints indistinct and very small, bright yellow ; palpi, 

 beard and face dirty grey, forehead same shade, with a large red- 

 dish shining transverse callus situated above the base of antennae, 

 and with two small black spots at border of eyes ; thorax blackish, 

 indistinctly striped with grey lines, sides grey ; scutellum brown ; 

 abdomen blackish, border of segments and two series of little in- 

 distinct spots greyish ; calyptrae and halteres yellowish grey ; wings 

 blackish with rather extensive white markings and spots ; legs 

 brown, naked, fore tibiae whitish at base, intermediate and poster- 

 ior ones pale yellow with the base, apex and a median ring 

 blackish. 



Laos, one specimen. 



The unusual form of antennae, notwithstanding the general ap- 

 pearance, seems to authorize the establishment of a new genus for 

 this and the preceding species. Bigot, Nouv. Archiv. Mus. Hist, 

 Nat. Paris, 1890, ii, p. 206. 



The following notes were published after I had seen the type 

 in the Paris Museum : — 



This type from Cambodia (the description gives Laos) is also 

 in the Paris Museum. 



This species would come under heading " 15 " in my table of 

 Indian and Ceylon species next to H. lata, Ricardo, from which it 

 is distinguished by the hind tibiae not being fringed, and the third 

 joint of the antennae is wider and shorter. It resembles H. rubida, 



