Prof. M. I'czzl on Indian Pyigotinse. 153 



no. \. CollecUnl and presented by Captain the Hon. 11. O. B. 

 Briil^onian, R.N. 



Tlie f^H'iieral colour of tliis squirrel renders it esisily distiii- 

 o-iiisliable from the liihambane species ; the cranial difTeretiees 

 are such that it sec. us b^st to reg ird this forui as u distinct 

 species. 



Ca|)t. Brid<feman, after whom this handsome squirrel is 

 n;uned, collected a second specimen, exactly like the typo, 

 at the same locality. 



XXII. — Indian Pyrgotiiiae (Diptera). 

 By Prof. M. Bezzi, Turin, Italy. 



No sp >cies of this iuterestinoj subfiiniily had been described 

 from Iiulia or Ceylon up to tlie end of 1^13 ; the O-ryce/duila 

 ? pictipennis, Walk(U- ('List of the 8pec. of Dipt. Insects 

 in the Coll. of the Brit. Museum,' iv. 1840, p. 1162), from 

 East India, which, in Van der Wulp's Catalogue, p. 172, 

 is recorded as belonging to Fyrgota, is, indeed, a beautiful 

 species of the Platystondne genus Xenaspis, Osten-Siicken, 

 1881 (^Polisioniini'i, Enderlein, l'J12), as was first shown 

 by Prof. Hendel (Wien. entom. Zeitung, xxvii. lOUS, 

 p. 150). This same species was described as X. vespoides 

 by Prof, de Meijere (' Bijdrcigen tot de Dieikunde,' xvii. 

 I'JOl, p. 107) from Darjiling, and is recently recorded 

 from the same locality by Bruneiti (' Records of the Iiul. 

 INluseuu),' ix. 1913, p. 275). I have seen some specimens of 

 it taken near Bhowali, Kumaon, 5700 feet, July 1909 and 

 June 1910, by Prof. A. D. Imms. 



In 1913 a very important paper appeared on the subfamily 

 (" Neue Beitiiige zur Keiuitnis der Pyrgotinen," Archiv tiir 

 Naturgeschichte, Ixxix. 1913, pp. 77-118, pi. i.) by Prof, 

 llendel, who, in 1908, had already published the monograph 

 of the group in ' Genera Insectorum ' of Wytsman. In this 

 paper are described the following Indian species, the types 

 of which are to be found in the Biitish Museum ; — 



1. Adipsilia brahma, Hend. — Nilgiris. 



2. vulptina, Hend. — Sikkim. 



0. arniipes, Hend. — Sikkim. 



1. scuteUatay Hend. — N.W. Provinces. 



5. ma(/nicornis, Hend. — Ceylon. 



G. Apyrtjota pictiventris, Hend. — Ceylon. 

 7, unicolor, Hend. — Ceylon. 



