352 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vox,. IV, 



branch is only represented by two small spots, as shown in the 

 photograph. Length 8 mm. Ricardo, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), 

 xviii, p. 119 



The first joint of the antennae is long and cylindrical, nearly 

 as long as the third joint. Frontal callus narrow. 



(C) Apical hand of wing single, formed of spots. 



Haematopota irrorata, 9 , Macquart. 

 (Plate xviii, fig. 30.) 



Dipt, exot., i (i), p. 167, pi. xix,fig. 3 (1838); V. d. Wulp, 

 Sumatra Exped. Dipt., 19, pi. i, fig. 13 (1881) ; Ost. Sacken, Ann. 

 Mus. Civ. Genova, xvi, p. 419 (1882) ; Bigot, Bull. Soc. Zool. 

 France, xvi, p. 75 (1891). 



? Haematopota /)7^«gt^«s, Doleschall, Naturkund. Tijd. Nederl. 

 Ind., X, p. 407, pi. iv, fig. 3 (1856). 



Red. Antennae with the first joint elongated, cylindrical. 

 Legs red, tibiae with white rings. Wings red with white spots 

 (pi. 19, fig. 3). Length 4 lines, 9 . 



Palpi fawn coloured. Face of a 3'ellowish grey colour. Fore- 

 head greyish brown, base shining black ; an oval oblique dull black 

 spot on each side of forehead, near the eyes and contiguous to 

 the black spot at base. Antennae : the first two joints fawn 

 coloured; the first one long cylindrical, the third joint wanting. 

 Thorax fawn coloured : sides with scanty grey tomentum. Abdo- 

 men fawn coloured. Legs fawn coloured; tarsi brown; anterior 

 tibiae wdth a whitish ring at base ; intermediate and posterior tibiae 

 with two 3^ellowish white rings and apex brownish. Halteres 

 brown. Wings a rather pale reddish brown, with scattered white 

 spots ; a whitish circle towards the middle of the marginal cell. 

 From Java Museum. Macq., Dipt, exot., i (i), p. 167. 



The ring in the figure of wing has a round white circle on 

 fore border near stigma and another in the axillary lobe of wing, 

 the apical band is only represented by small white spots. The 

 type seen by me in Paris Museum in 1906 is almost destroyed, 

 only the wdngs remaining. 



Nine females from Grabak, Alahan and Lebong (Sumatra). 



The specimen caught at Grabak corresponds the most to 

 Macquart's description and figure, owing to its rusty colouring. 

 All the others are darker, but cannot be specifically divided from 

 it, as the}^ do not differ in any important characters. Even the 

 above-mentioned specimen from Grabak has the last segment of 

 abdomen black-brown, always with pale red-yellow segmentations 

 which indeed are also apparent on the anterior part of the abdo- 

 men. The figure furnished by Macquart does not give a very 

 exact notion of the insect ; the dark, instead of pale, spots on the 

 wings cause the design to be unlike what it is in reality. The 

 third antennal joint (which is missing in the specimen described 

 by Macquart) is one and a half times as long as the first one, and 



