DIXA. 261 



Wing-tip not infuscated. Thoracic 

 stripes dark brown, abdomen brown . . 3. 



3. Wing- nearly clear; only a few infus- 



cated spots, mostly in basal and anal 



cells ; no deeper black spots montana, Brun., p. 262. 



Wing with several blackish streaks ; 

 and four rather deep black marks 

 contiguous to and below the 1st longi- 

 tudinal vein maculipennis, Brun., p. 263, 



4. The transverse streak on the wing ex- 



tending over the posterior cross-vein . bistriata, Brun., p. 264. 

 The transverse streak not continued over 

 the cross- vein bifasciata, Brun.,* p. 264. 



187. Dixa ochrilineata, Brun. 



Dixa ochrilineata, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. iv, p. 267 (1911). 



$ . Head light yellow. Eyes separated by a frons one-third 

 the width of the head. Proboscis yellowish, with rather well- 

 developed terminal dark brown lips; palpi dark brown. Antennae; 

 1st scapal joint very short and indistinct, 2nd large, globular, 

 yellow ; flagellum of 14 to 16 joints (?), dark brown, extreme base 

 of first joint yellow. Thorax distinctly gibbous, prominent in front, 

 yellow. Three brownish yellow dorsal stripes, somewhat normally 

 placed, the median one attaining the anterior margin, the outer 

 ones distinctly curved towards and over the sides anteriorly. 

 Some soft long hairs in the neighbourhood of the stripes and in 

 front of the wings. Scutellum and inetauotum yellow, the former 

 a little brown at the sides, the latter in the middle. Sides of 

 thorax with a dark brown lateral stripe on a level with and passing 

 across the bases of the coxae. Abdomen brownish yellow, a little 

 darker towards the sides. Ovipositor small, inconspicuous, pale 

 yellow. Legs : cox* and femora pale brownish yellow, femora a 

 little lighter near the tips, the tips themselves with a blackish brown 

 ring; tibiae and tarsi brownish. Wings very pale grey, costal 

 cell wholly unmarked; tip of wing very pale blackish from beyond 

 the fork of the 2nd vein, the shade extending posteriorly as far as 

 the 2nd posterior cell and filling it ; a dark brown streak from the 

 1st longitudinal vein, passing over the origin of the 3rd vein, the 

 anterior cross-vein, then in diminished intensity to the hind margin 

 of the wing by way of the posterior cross-vein and the last section 

 of the oth longitudinal vein; a very pale blackish spot in the 1st 

 basal cell, near its tip, an elongate one in the basal part of the 2nd 

 basal cell, turning down at its proximal end into the anal cell. 

 Wings a little yellowish at the base. Halteres pale yellow. 



Length 2 millim. 



Described from a female from Kurseong, 9. ix. 09 (Annandale). 



Type in the Indian Museum. 



* D. bifasciata ia possibly the female of D. bistriata. 



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