418 



TIPTJLID.E. 



clastic overthrowing of names established in some cases for nearly 

 a century, indulged in by some present day writers, has spared 

 a well-known genus here and there. 



Table of Species. 



1. Larger species, 6 millim. 

 Smaller species, 4 millim. 



2. Pale yellow species 



Darker species 



ferruginosa, sp. n., p. 418. 



unicolor, sp. n., p. 419. 

 inconspicua, sp. n., p. 419. 



view of head. 



303. Rhamphidia ferruginosa, sp. nov. (PI. VIII, fig. 8 ; PI. XI, 

 fig. 11.) 



c? . Head, with neck, brownish yellow, slightly pubescent ; 

 eyes nearly contiguous. Proboscis brownish yellow ; palpi darker, 

 comparatively narrow. Antenna brownish yellow, with a row of 

 bristly hairs on the 2nd scapal joint, which 

 is rather large, and with normal pubes- 

 cence on the flagellum. Thorax: dorsum 

 and sides, scutellum and rnetanotum 

 ferruginous brown, nearly bare, mode- 

 rately shining ; traces of a vei-y narrow- 

 bright yellow line below the margin of 

 the dorsum anteriorly. Abdomen dark 

 brown, with a little pale yellow pubes- 

 cence ; belly ferruginous. Genitalia 

 yellowish brown, only a large pair of 



claspers terminating in black hooks being perceptible. Leys 

 yellowish brown. Wings clear. The 1st longitudinal vein ending 

 gradually in the costa at about two-thirds the length of the wing ; 

 auxiliary vein lying very close to the 1st vein, and only perceptible 

 towards its tip, it being nearly as long as the 1st longitudinal ; 

 praefurca nearly straight, the remainder of the vein taking a wide 

 sweep upward, distinctly curved, a little longer than the praa- 

 furca, ending some distance beyond the tip of the 1st vein ; the 

 3rd vein originating at the tip of the praefurca, its basal portion 

 almost punctiform ; anterior cross-vein moderately long ; discal 

 cell oblong, the three veinlets issuing equidistantly from it, nearly 

 straight, approximately parallel ; posterior cross-vein at base of 

 discal cell. Halteres pale, knob brown. 

 Length 6| millim. 



Described from one specimen from the base of the Dawna 

 Hills, Lower Burma, 2. iii. 08 (Annandale). 



