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Raphiocera spinithorax Macq., Dip. Ex. vSup., 3, 



17 ; pi. i, 7. 

 C lit ellari a tenebrica W\k. ; List Dip. Brit. Mus., 



vii, 522. 

 Ephippium spinigerum Dol., Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind., 



X, 407. 

 N egritomyia hilineata V. d. Wulp, Notes Leyd. 



Mus., vii, 59. 



Reported to be common in Java and to occur in Amboina. 

 I did not come across it although collecting in Java in five locali- 

 ties. Also occurs in Japan. 



Two specimens from Tenasserim are in the Indian Museum, of 

 which one, with contiguous eyes, is certainly a h . The other has 

 the eyes very slightly but distinctly apart. It is not a 2 , because 

 in this genus the eyes in the $ should be widely apart, yet the 

 specimen is undoubtedly of the same species as the first one. 



Another specimen also from Tenasserim in the Indian Museum 

 Collection varies in nothing but size, and is a fine Ephippiomyia 

 with absolutely contiguous eyes, whilst an interesting fourth speci- 

 men (unfortunately minus its antennae), likewise from Tenasserim, 

 appears to belong to the same genus, but has no side spines. The 

 abdomen is much wider than the thorax as in the typical European 

 species thoracica Latr., whereas in hilineata it is ovately elongated, 

 and this latter species does not strike one at first as an Ephip- 

 piomyia at all. Without thoracic spines (of which there is no 

 trace whatever) the Tenasserim specimen becomes an Oxycera, 

 but its size (7 mm.), general facies, and black colour approximates 

 it more to the present genus. Regarding the species with linear ab- 

 domens not wider than the thorax, I think a separate genus should 

 be established for them. This would include hilineata F., and 

 Ephippiomyia would be reserved for species in which the abdo- 

 men is much broader than the thorax, also comparatively much 

 shorter, thicker and more convex. 



E. responsale Wlk., 1865. 



{Clitellaria) Pr. Linn. So., viii, 106. 



h Papua. Allied to bivittata, but with broader antennae. 



E. gavasum Wlk., i860. 



{Clitellaria) Pr. Linn. So. iv., 95. 



.^ Makessar (Celebes). The author also describes what he 

 thinks is the 9 . 



E. cinercum Dol., 1857. 



{Clitellaria) Nat. Tijd. Ned., xiv, 403. 



Amboina. In Van der Wulp's Catalogue, he doubts if an 

 Ephippiomyia , and questions the form of its antennae. 



