XVI.— NOTES ON ORIENTAL DIPTERA. 



III.— REVIEW OF THE ORIENTAL SPECIES OF 



SEPEDON LATR., WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF 



TWO NEW SPECIES. 



' fiy E. Brttnettt. 



Seven species of this genus were included in Van der Wulp's 

 Catalogue (1896) of the Diptera of South Asia. Of these I believe 

 I can identify four with specimens either in the Indian Museum 

 collection or my own, and add two new ones taken by m3^self last 

 year in Java. They all appear to be valid species and of four of 

 them, plumbellus, aenescens^ ferruginosus and a new species sangui- 

 nipes, I have examined a series of about a score of each. Two 

 species I know from single specimens only {crishna Wlk. and 

 fuscinervis mihi) and the remaining three I have not seen ; these 

 being javanensis Rob. Des. (figured in Macquart's " Dipteres Exo- 

 tiques "), costalis (i) Wlk., and costalis (2) Wlk., which latter, the 

 name being preoccupied by the author himself in the same genus, I 

 have renamed hatjanensis. 



Table of Oriental species of Sepedon. 



A Front coxse grey or blackish, 

 with or without silvery 

 white shimmer ; never yel- 

 low. 



B Abdomen plumbeous. 

 Long. 4^6|- mm. 



C Apical half (or third) of wing 

 distinctly darker ; anten- 

 nae nearly or quite black 

 (except the reddish yellow 

 1st joint); posterior 

 femora generally with 

 the apical half reddish 



Long. 5-6^^ mm. plumbellus Wied. 

 CC Wings uniformly light grey- 

 ish brown — rarely darken- 

 ed towards tip (if so only 

 very slightly) ; antennae 



