556 BHTPHID^. 



similarly marKed ; the lateral edges of the segments with a 

 narrow yellow stripe. Winys pale grey, nearly clear; stigma 

 dark brown, distinct, a slight brownish streak below it ; a small 

 deep blackish-brown longitudinal streak below the auxiliary vein, 

 near its tip, the colour continued in diminishing intensity across 

 the tip of the 1st basal cell ; a brownish spot at about the middle 

 of the 1st basal cell ; the " cross-veins " are a little darkened and 

 thickened. Halteres pale yellow. 



Length 4 millim. 



Eedescribed from specimens in the Indian Museum, which in- 

 clude three females from Kurseong, 9-26. ix. 09 (Lynch, Annan- 

 dale) ; also from a male and female from Burley in ~WI>arfdale r 

 England, vii. 1900, and a female from Morningside, near Edin- 

 burgh, 19. ix. 94 (P. U. Grimsliaw). 



The species is moderately common throughout Europe, and 

 occurs also in North America (Virginia), where it is said to have 

 been bred from cow-dung.* 



Type. The location of this is unknown to me. 



405. Rhyphus distinctus, Brun. (PI. XII, fig. 6.) 



ius distinctus, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. iv, p. 262 (1911). 



<5 5 . Bead: eyes absolutely contiguous in male from the con- 

 spicuously raised ocellar triangle, which occupies the whole vertex, 

 almost to the base of the antennae ; underside of head blackish 

 grey. Frons in female one-fourth the width of the head, and,. 

 with vertex and face, whitish grey ; underside of head somewhat 

 yellowish. Antennae wholly black, with a little short grey 

 pubescence, tips of both scapal joints sometimes narrowly brown- 

 ish yellow ; palpi black. Back of head with some soft long hairs ; 

 proboscis yellowish. Thorax brownish yellow, with three mode- 

 rately broad, somewhat reddish brown stripes, the outer ones 

 extending from just below the anterior margin nearly to the 

 posterior one ; the middle stripe extends from the anterior margin 

 nearly to the scutellum, tapering gradually, often narrowly divided 

 in front ; there is also a small unicolorous transverse mark just 

 below each shoulder. A dorso-central row of stiff hairs, gradually 

 diminishing in length, extends from the posterior margin forwards, 

 thence curving towards and over the humeral swellings ; a lateral 

 row of six or seven long stiff hairs above each wing, and some post- 

 alar ones. Scutellum brownish yellow, with a broad median brown 

 band, and the extreme edges brow n ; metauotum shining dark 

 brown. Abdomen dark reddish brown, with a moderate amount 

 of soft short yellow hair ; hind margins of segments more or less 

 narrowly yellowish, sometimes the posterior corners also ; basal 

 segment sometimes lighter coloured. Belly yellowish, with more 

 or less dark markings ; genitalia inconspicuous. Legs light brown- 

 ish yellow ; tarsi dark ; extreme tips of posterior femora black ; 



* Howard, Canad. Ent. xxxiii, p. 43. 



