450 Records of the Indian Museum, [Von. VIT, 
pale yellow hairs, Eyes black, with short thick pubescence, 
posterior orbit with grey hairs, Occiput black. Facial protu- 
herance conspicuous, brownish yellow, bearing the concolorous 
antennae, of which the 3rd joint bears several faintly marked 
annulations, the style black, Inthe @ the frons is narrow, almost 
linear, of a deep orange yellow colour, the hind borders of the 
eyes are very thick and of the same colour, the pubescence of the 
eyes is pale yellow, 
Thorax, Shining blue black, with concolorous hairs. ‘Chree 
wide stripes, composed of short yellowish grey hairs, lie crossing 
one another on the dorsum, one being median and transverse, 
carried over the sides in front of the wings, the other two form the 
letter X, the anterior ends lying just inside the shoulders, 
the posterior ends attain the posterior angles of the dorsum, 
Pleurae blue black with grey hairs below the shoulders, the con- 
tinuation of the median transverse grey stripe reaching to the 
middle coxae, Shoulders and anterior margin of dorsum with con- 
spicuous thick bright golden yellow hairy, Scutellum blue black, 
shining, with similar hair, posterior margin with short grey hair, 
the four spines dark brownish yellow or black, 
Abdomen. Shining blue black, with microscopic black spines, 
each set in a raised black socket, giving the abdomen a roughened 
appearanee, A little pale grey pubescence towards the sides and 
at the tip. Belly similar to dorsum, but the pale hairs cover the 
whole surface, Genitalia small, two short telescopic cylindrical 
joints in ot, two short filaments in & . 
Legs —Femora black, tibiae dark brown, tarsi reddish or 
brownish yellow in the o, black in @. Femora with whitish grey 
hair below, remainder of legs microscopically pubescent, 
Wings. Broadly speaking, the anterior and distal halves 
moderately dark brown, the costal cell always quite clear; the 
proximal half of the posterior part of the wing more or less pale 
grey or clear, Stigma and veins dark brown. ‘The discal cell 
may be all clear or the upper part (even to the half or more) may 
he darkened, Halteres chrome yellow. 
Described from 3 o@ @ anda @ in the Indian Museum. ‘The 
oo were labelled Acanthina auricollis, Big., which is a nomen 
nudum and are from Sadiya (¢yfe) and Kohima, Assam; the 
is a more recent specimen from Karkur Ghat, Nilgiri Hills, 
South India (1500 [t.), taken in May rorr by Mr. H. I). Andrewes. 
N.B.—As a synonym to asuvea, Gerst., Van der Wulp gives 
Walker’s Clitellaria obesa (Proc, Linn, Soc, Lond., v, 232, 1861), 
but Walker himself described the year previously a Clitellaria 
obesa from Mexico, ‘Trans. Ent, Soc. Lond. (2) v, 270). That this 
latter is a good species is evident by its inclusion in Aldrich’s Cat. 
N. Amer. Dipt. and in Kertesz’s Cat. of Dipt. 
Although in my paper on Oriental Stratiomyidae I distin- 
guished asurea and auricollis, Big., by the presence or absence of a 
cross (former by silver grey hair stripes) on the thoracic dorsum, 
this is unsatisfactory, as auricollis also possesses a similar cross. 
