igoy-] Records of the Indian Museum. iic 



the abdomen in these latter being more bluish than in the East 

 Indian Islands specimens. Meijere announces a ? from Mafiokwari 

 (Papua), taken May 2nd. In 1880 Osten Sacken queried " Odon- 

 tomyia cinerea " Dol. {=Ephippiomyia id) from Amboina as a 

 synonym of this species, but Van der Wulp keeps them genetically 

 divided in his Catalogue. 



N. festinans Wlk., i860. 



Pr. Linn. So., iv, 95. 



{Engonia aurata Sch.) 



'b Makessar, Amboina. The author also adds what he con- 

 siders the 2 . Osten Sacken records 3 'b 'b i 9 from Kandari, 

 April 1874. 



N. alhitarsis Big., 1879. 

 Ann. So. Ent. Fr. (1879), 207. 

 ? Papua. Bigot Coll. Also known from Australia. 



A'', consohrina Big., 1879 ; I.e., 208. 

 ^ Papua. Bigot Coll. 



Ephippiomyia Latr., 1809. 



Gen. Crust. Ins., iv, 276. 



Emended from Ephippium Latr. by Bezzi, 1902, Zeits. Hym. 

 Dip., ii, 191. 



Ephippium being preoccupied by Bolten in Mollusca 1798, the 

 change of name is merely an emendation. I believe no change of 

 generic characters attaches to Ephippiomyia, but I have not seen 

 the work. I mention this because the new Palsearctic Catalogue 

 attributes the genus to Bezzi, as though newly created. 



Table of species. 



Rather large sized species 10 to 14 mm. 



Femora black . . . . Long. 12-14 mm. bilineatum F. 



Femora livid, except towards tips Long. 10 mm. responsale Wlk. 

 Moderate sized species, 7 mm. 



Thorax with two stripes of gilded tomen- 



tum . . . . . . Long. 7 mm. gavasum Wlk, 



Thorax with two indistinct whitish 



stripes . , . . Long. 7 mm. cinereum Dol. 



Quite small species . . . . Long. 4 mm. nigerrimum Dol. 



E. bilineatum F,, 1805. 



{Stratiomys) Sys. Antl., 79. 



Clitellaria hivittata Wied., Auss,, ii, 46. 

 Ephippium augustum Macq,, Dipt., i, 252. 



