392 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vol. IV. 



Doleschall records this species from Amboina. In Brit. Mus. 

 coll. a female from Malay States (H. C. Pratt), presented b}' 

 London School of Tropical Medicine ; and two females from Ross 

 Island, Andaman Islands, May 1904 (Col. Bingham). In Indian 

 Museum coll. a female from Assam and another from Sibsagar, 

 Assam. 



In Ivondon School of Tropical Medicine coll. a female from 

 Sarawak, Borneo (A. R. WelHngton). 



A species with the abdomen pale yellow at base, black in the 

 middle and reddish yellow at apex. Legs and face blackish. 

 Wings with the dark cross-band hardly incised on inner border 

 thougli sometimes paler. 



Length 8^ — 12 mm. 



Face yellowish or golden yellow, with the middle of face 

 shining black having only a short yellow median stripe below the 

 antennae, base of cheeks shining black. Beard yellow. Palpi 

 yellowish red, smooth, long and pointed with some black hairs. 

 Antennae yellowish, cylindrical, the second joint browner with 

 thicker pubescence, the third joint black except at base, longer. 

 Forehead black with a broad band of yellow or grey tomentum, the 

 frontal callus large, reaching eyes, protuberant. ThoraxHack, with 

 golden yellow pubescence at sides and on posterior border, and 

 with pale yellow appressed pubescence on dorsum. Scutelhwi 

 blackish. 



Abdomen with the first two segments pale yellowish, the first 

 segment black beneath the scutellum, the second segment with a 

 narrow posterior black border, the third segment blackish some- 

 times with obscure yellowish or reddish markings, the remaining 

 segments reddish yellow. Legs blackish brown, the fore t biae 

 black, swollen, the middle and posterior tibiae almost wholly pale 

 yellow, the posterior fe.iiDra in^rassate with fringes of black hairs, 

 pubescence of legs wholly black. Wings with a large broad trans- 

 verse band, broadly brown on costal border to apex and at base 

 brown, the band with almost straight borders, not incised on 

 posterior border though sometimes paler in the fifth posterior cell, 

 reaching to the anal cell, the apex of which it entirely fills. 



Chrysops fixissima, $ , Walker. 



Proc. Linn. Soc, i, p. 112 (1856); Ricardo, Ann. Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. (7), ix, p. 376 (1902). 



Chrysops unizonatus, Rondani, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, vii, 

 p. 459 (1873); Ost. Sacken, Berlin. Ent. Zeit., xxvi, p. 97 (1882). 



The type is not to be found in the British Museum collection, 

 but only the variety. Colonel Yerbury has a note on one of the 

 specimens to the effect that the species is " Rare.'' 



Type (var., female) from Sarawak, 68, 4 (Saunders). 



Two from Sandakan, Brit. N. Borneo, 98, 38 (D. Cator), and 

 one, from same locality, 95, 134; one from Singapore, 96, 114 



