CRASPEDOMETOPON. TIXDA. 29 



broader than long, finely punctate ; 1st segment very short, 2nd 

 three times as long as 1st, 3rd rather longer than 2nd, 4th and 

 5th subequal to 3rd ; genitalia small, concealed. Legs moderately 

 strong, simple, pubescent. Wings normal ; costa ending at tip 

 of 3rd vein ; axillary vein present. 



Range. India, Formosa. 



C. frontale is the only known species. 



9. Craspedometqpon. frontale, Kert. (PI. I, figs. 5, 6.) 



Craspedometopon frontnle, Kertesz, Aim. Mus. Hung. vii. p. 375, 

 pi. viii, tigs. 3, 4, 10 (1909). 



cJ 5 Head black, vertex and ocellar bump with yellow hair, 

 which is shorter in $ ; frons in c5 dull black, with a yellowish- 

 white hair-spot on each side above antennae contiguous to eye- 

 margin ; in $ grey, with a median shining black oval depression 

 with its lower end pointed ; white hair-spots as in tf ; epistoma 

 with yellowish pubescence; ccciput with yellowish tomentum. 

 Antennae with 1st and 2nd joints chestnut-brown, moderately 

 shining, 3rd darker, with yellow tomentum. Proboscis brownish 

 yellow ; 1st joint of palpi yellow, 2nd black. Thorax black above, 

 slightly shining ; in d 1 the greater part with very short whitish 

 pubescence, anterior margin and sides with short black hair ; in $ 

 pubescence brassy yellow, thicker ; in certain lights can be seen 

 three longitudinal stripes, connected in front, of which the 

 median one reaches the scutellum, outer ones diverging towards 

 side-margins; pleura? black, more shining, but less punctate and 

 pubescent than dorsum; humeri reddish brown at tips. Scutellum 

 concolorous with thorax, equally pubescent ; spines yellowish 

 brown at tips. Abdomen black, slightly shining, closely punctate, 

 with similar, but shorter, yellow ish-white pubescence. Legs brown, 

 pubescence yellow : femora (except tips), upper side of front 

 tibiae, the middle and hind tibiae (except bases and tips) almost 

 black ; front tarsi with black pubescence on upper side. Wings 

 and veins basally, up to middle of discal cell, blackish, remainder 

 yellowish ; halteres brownish yellow. 



Length, 4f-8 mm. ; wings, 44-8-2 mm. 



The above is a free translation of Kertcsz's description from a 

 large number of specimens from Formosa, iii-v. 1908 (Sauter). A 

 cj and $ named by him are in the Indian Museum ; also two 

 d" <5 from Tenasserim (Dolierty) and a c? from the Darjiling 

 District, 1000-3000 ft., v. 1Q12 (Lord Carmicliael). 



Genus TINDA, Walk. 



Tinda, Walker, Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. iv, p. 101 (1860). 

 Biaslts, Walker, Ins. Saund. Dipt, i, p. 80 (1851) [wecPanz., 1806". 

 Phyllophora, Macquart, Me?m. Soc. Sci. Lille, 1834, p. 507 (1835). J 

 Enisma, Jaennicke, Abh. Senck. Nat. Ges. vi, p. 322 (18C7). 



GENOTYPE, Bictstes indica, AVulk. (as Tin da modifera); by 

 original designation. 



Head more than semicircular, as wide as thorax ; eyes bare, 



