19 1 1.] E. Brunetti : Oriental Tipididae. 297 



trentcpohlii, W., cf 9 [Limnohia). Described originally 

 from Sumatra, this species is common in different parts of India, 

 Burma and Assam, including Calcutta, and is probably generally 

 distributed throughout the East. Meijere has it from Java and 

 Mr. Edwards records it recently from two Ceylonese localities. 



Type in Dr. Trentepohl's collection, presumably at the Vienna 

 Museum. 



Three new species from India in the Indian Museum will be 

 described by me later. 



Mongoma exornata, Bergr., from Africa is a true Mongomioides. 



STYRINGOMYIA, Lw. 



First described by I,oew in 1845 (Dipt. Beit., i, in''Zu der 

 offentlichen Priifung der Schiiler d. Konigl. Fried. Wilh. Gymn. 

 zu Posen," p. 6) from a specimen in amber, it was for many 

 years considered an extinct genus. The late Baron Osten Sacken, 

 in his Monograph of the North American Tipulidae Brevipalpi (p. 

 102), describes a second species (without naming it) from a piece of 

 copal from Zanzibar. He figures a wing, copied from I^oew's figure, 

 and characterizes the genus, adding from I^oew's original descrip- 

 tion such details as were not distinctly visible in his own species. 

 He suggested, but did not assume the relationship of the genus to 

 Toxorrhina. Later on (1887) the same author, in his historical 

 "Studies on Tipulidae," ii (Berl. Ent. Zeits., xxxiii, 185), records 

 the existence of recently captured specimens from Caffraria taken 

 by Wahlberg, in the collection of the Stockholm Museum. Needham 

 (New York State Museum, Bulletin 124, pi. xxvi, 6) reproduces an 

 enlarged figure of Osten Sacken's copy of Loew's wing. Prof. 

 Kertesz in his exhaustive catalogue of the world's diptera, now in 

 progress of publication, does not mention the genus, from which I 

 presume the CaftVaria specimens were not named. Loew's original 

 species was S. venusta, 5 . 



Incidentally it may be noted that there exists another genus 

 with a very similar name — Steringouiyia, Pokorn}?- — erected in 1889 

 (Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxxix, 568) for a single species from 

 the Alps allied to the genus of Muscidae, Cynoniyia, Rob. Desv. 



I had hoped to introduce this genus to the East by the descrip- 

 tion of three species in the Indian Museum collection from Nepal 

 and South India but am forestalled by Meijere's discovery in Java 

 of Grimshaw's 5. didyma, described from Hawaii' recentlj^ Dr. 

 Meijere places the genus in the Rhamphidini, but it seems to me 

 much more nearly related to the Gonomyia group, with Mongoma, 

 Lechria, and the closer allies of Gonomyia. Mr. Edwards also 

 desribces the following species from Ceylon. 



ceylonica, Edwards, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), viii, No. 43, 58, 

 cf (1911). 



Described from a single d' in the British Museum from Weli- 

 gama, Ceylon, 9-ii-o8 [T. B. Fletcher^ 



