344 Mr. C. G. Lamb on Exotic Chloropidee. 



bristles and a row of some eight or ten shorter ones on each 

 side along the lower edge. Pleura shining black. 



Wings pale, with yellow veins, costal section 2 to 3 a little 

 greater than 3 to 4, which is about | of 2 to 1 ; small cross- 

 vein opposite end of 1 ; hind cross-vein sloping so that if 

 produced it would cut costa at end of 2 ; distance between 

 cross-veins a little more than length of hind one, which is 

 nearly twice its length from the abbreviated end of 5. 

 Halteres orange. 



Legs all orange, generally with broad dark rings on the 

 hind femur and tibia ; sometimes the rings are faint or even 

 absent, sometimes they are on the other legs as well, but less 

 extensive. 



Abdomen shining black, a somewhat flattened, oval, with 

 the last segment somewhat triangular and about twice as long 

 as the preceding one ; hairs fine, blackish brown, fewer on 

 the last segment. 



Size 2| mm. 



S. Rhodesia : Salisbury (G. A. K. Marshall, Camb. 

 Coll.). 



SlPHUNCULINA, Rond. 



S. funicola, Meij. 



There is a long series of this insect in both collections from 

 Singapore, Coimbatore, and Ceylon. The specimens show 

 some variation in size. The antennse are not always clear 

 red, being occasionally a little infuscate apically. The thoracic 

 hairs are said to be black, and against a light background 

 this is true, but when viewed against the black dorsum it can 

 be seen that the hairs are brownish and the darkness of the 

 brown itself varies, 



A note appended to some specimens says " on decaying 

 cholam shoots." This is the well-known and troublesome 

 " eye fly." 



S. ornatifrons, Loew. 



Several specimens are present which must be assigned to 

 this species. On the whole, they agree well with Becker's 

 description (I. p. 132), but the distal part of the wing is not 

 like his figure (I. pi. iii. p. 52), the wing being longer and 

 the costa between 2 and 3 not so arched. If one supposes 

 that the figure was made from a wing which was bent on its 

 distal half so as to be out of the normal plane, the discrepancy 

 is accounted for. Errors of this sort can be traced in several 



