Nenropierous Family Nemoptcridic. 459 



As (lie name costaJis staiuls before aiujahita in tlie Proc. 

 Ent. !Soc., the former must stand for the species if the two 

 names are correctly placed together as sexes, as appears 

 probable. 



8. Halter hiremis. 

 Nemoptera biremix, Kolbc, SB. Ges. nalurf. Fr. lierliu, 1900, p. 10. 

 Hah. Cape. 



Section 2. 



Hind wings more or less expanded towards the extremity (once, twice, or 

 thrice), and with a broad dark band towards the base of the expanded 

 part of the wings. 



9. Ilaher albostigma. 



Nemoptera all/ostigma, Westwood, Tlies. Knt. Oxou. p. 170, pi. xxxiii. 

 Hg. 7 (1874). 



Ilab. Ziiluland. 



*10. Halter halterata. 



Payiorpa haltvrata, FurskSl, Descr. Anim. p. 97 (1775) ; Icones, pi. xxv. 

 tijr. E (177(5). 



Nemoptera halterata, De Selvs, Ann. Soc. Eut. Belg. x. pp. 254, 255, 

 J)), ii. fijjfs. 5, 6 (1887) ; Ilugen, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, xxiii. 

 ]). 257. n. 8 (1887). 



Nemojitera pallida, Olivier, Enc. Meth. viii. p. 179. n. 5 (1811) ; Ram- 

 bur, Inn. Nevr. p. 335, pi. viii. fig. 4 (1842). 



Nematdjitera pallida, W'ii^t-^ood, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1841, p. 11. 

 n. 8 ; Ann. it Mag. Nat. Hist. viii. p. 378. n. 8. 



Nematoptera Forskalli, AN'estwood, //. cc. p. 11. u. G, p. 378. n. 0. 



Ilah. Arabia, Baghdad. 



This is the type of the genus, N. pallida^ Olivier, being 

 the first of four sj)ecies referred by Rambur to Halter, and, 

 moreover, being figured. The specimen in the British 

 Museum is from Mount Sinai. Several other species have 

 been wrongly called N. halterata by various authors, wiiose 

 references 1 liave not always quotetl. 



*11. Halter tipular la. 



Nemoptera tipularia, Weat\\ooil, Thes. Eut. Oxon. p. 179, pi. xxxiii. 

 fig. 10 (1874). 



Ilah. Damai aland. 



