EHYPHFS. 553 



brown band across the middle of this cell ; the borders of the 

 discal cell and the 5th longitudinal vein narrowly suffused with 

 brown. The veins appear generally liable to a slight suffusion, 

 and the hinder part of the wing is a little darker grey distally, 

 Halteres yellowish with brown tips. 



Length 3f millim. 



Described from a female in the Indian Museum collection, 

 dated 30. vii. 10 (no locality given, but probably Assam), and one 

 in my own collection from Peradeniya, Ceylon, xii. 07 ; in the 

 former specimen both the hind legs are missing. 



The wing agrees perfectly with van der "Wulp's plate. The 

 antennas and abdomen in his type specimen were injured and he 

 described the male only. Of the antenna?, the first three joints 

 (not two, as he says *) are yellow, joints 4 to 8 yellow with 

 brownish marks, or wholly brownish, 9 and 10 quite black, 11 

 and 12 yellowish white, 13 to 16 quite black, the 16th with a short 

 white style. The two basal abdominal segments are mainly dirty 

 yellow, with black posterior borders, the remainder being brownish 

 yellow with broadly black borders ; the apical segments wholly 

 blackish. Belly similar. The palpi are black. Wulp described 

 his male from Java. 



402. Rhyphus pulchricomis, Brun. (PL XII, fig. 2.) 



Rhyphus jmlchricomis, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. iv, p. 260 (1911). 



$ . Head : frons fully one-third width of head, reddish yellow, 

 bare ; vertex with a few hairs ; ocellar triangle small, black, 

 isolated. Antenna? long, 16-jointed, variegated, the joints mostly 

 reddish yellow and black, with a short white style and two or 

 three bristles at the apex ; joints 1, 2, 3 reddish yellow ; 4, 5 

 quite black ; 6, 7, 8 reddish yellow; 9, 10 black ; 11, 12 brownish 

 yellow ; 13 to 16 black ; the appearance of the antenna sug- 

 gesting that it is liable to variation. Palpi bright reddish yellow, 

 with a few bristles ; proboscis very short, yellow. Thorax yel- 

 lowish, with three wide, dark, soft reddish-brown stripes; sides 

 yellow, with black streaks ; some bristles on the dorsum. Scutel- 

 ium yellow, with a few bristles. Abdomen brownish yellow, blackish 

 towards tip, posterior borders of basal segments widely black. 

 Belly apparently concolorous. Legs brownish yellow, minutely 

 pubescent; tips of the femora, of the tibiffi, and of the tarsal 

 joints blackish. Wincjs pale grey ; anterior border a little yel- 

 lowish on the basal half ; posterior border pale blackish, slightly 

 deeper at tip ; a dark irregular band from the costa, reaching to 

 the discal cell, and another, of about equal width, placed between 

 the first and the infuscated wing-tip ; the clear space immediately 

 adjoining the infuscated wing-tip encloses a pale blackish oblong 

 spot placed lengthwise on the costa ; outer side of the discal cell 

 with a black suffusion ; a black round spot in the 1st basal cell ; 



* Quite possibly a variable character. 



