the Tipnlid genus Styringomyia. 213 



3. S. obscura, Brun. (1911). 



Figs. 46 and 47. 



Wings without distinct dark markings, but the whole 

 membrane shghtly infuscated, and there are sHghtly 

 darker clouds about the apex of the upper basal cell and 

 above the base of Cu ; all the veins blackish. 



Type in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



Loc. Thamaspur, Nepal. Known only from one female. 

 (Brunetti was mistaken as to the sex of his specimen.) 



4. S. solocipennis. End. (1912). 



Figs. 12 and 13. 



A very dark-coloured species. Wings rather strongly 

 infuscated, a little darker towards the costa. Side pieces 

 of hypopygium with three terminal spines, as in S. flava ; 

 adminiculum with a few hairs at its tip — a most unusual 

 character. 



Type in the Stettin Museum. 



Loc. Madagascar : Ambodimanga {Hammer stein), 3 ^. 



Group II . 



Wings with fairly distinct dark specks (except in S. impunctata) 

 on the R-M cross-vein and at the base of the ascending portion of 

 Cuj, usually also at the junction of or the cross-vein connecting 

 Ml + 2 *>id M3. Legs with dark rings or spots in the following 

 positions : on the front and middle femora one just beyond the 

 middle and another usually a little before the tip; on the hind 

 femora one in or immediately before the middle and another a 

 little before the tip ; on all the tibiae one just before the middle and 

 another at the tip; the fifth tarsal joint always blackish. Side 

 pieces of hypopygium (except in 8. sjostedti) terminating in one 

 spine. 



5. S. marshalli, sp. n. 



Figs. 5, 48 and 49. 

 Head dark blackish brown, palpi and first two joints of antennae 

 entirely black; flagellum dark brown. Thorax almost entirely 

 black; with grey reflections ; lower half of pleurae yellow. Abdomen 

 black (probably discoloured). Legs yellow, the rings very distinct, 

 black ; on the fore and mid femora the apical ring includes the whole 

 apex, on the hind femora it leaves the apex narrowly yellow. The 

 tips of all the tarsal joints are dark brown. Wings as in the figure ; 



