AUSTRO-MALAYAN DIPTERA 19 



a brownish shade along the apex ; stigma saturate-yellow , more 

 or less brown at the proximal end. 



Hub. Ternate (Beccari, 1875) immature female in the Mus. 

 Civico Genoa; half a dozen specimens in M.'' Bigot's collection 

 in Paris. 



p. 55. Solenaspis Beccarii. In a NB. to my description I said 

 that Plagiocera nitens Bigot, Ann. etc. 1880, p. 85, could not 

 well be the same species, because the coloring of Beccarii 

 was green, and not coppery, and because the characteristic 

 fulvous tomentum was not mentioned in M."" Bigot's descri- 

 ption. I have seen the type of P. nitens since; it is the same 

 species as mine. The term coppery (cuivreux) does not de- 

 scribe the species well, and should be modified into metallic- 

 green. 



M.' Bigot'^ specimen is a female; the front is comparatively 

 narrow , broadest above the antennae , gradually coarctate to- 

 wards the vertex'; the latter shows a very flat swelling, occu- 

 pying the whole space between the eyes ; the ocelli are in front 

 of that spelling. 



As to my genus Solenaspis^ it will have to embrace a number 

 of species from Southern Asia and Africa, which show some of 

 the characters of Pteroptila (Plagiocera) , but have a broad and 

 short scutellum, provided with a distinct rim. Plagiocera macu- 

 lipennis Loew, Siidafr. Dipt. 217, is very probably one of these 

 species; also P. haemorrhoa Gerst. from Zanzibar. 



p. 58. Rutilia pretiosa. Add to the synonymy : Formosia smarag- 

 clifera Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1874, 462; Tab. 8, f. 3! 



p. 71. Trypeta quadrifera. Add to the synonymy Themara ampia 

 Dolesch. 2>.^^ Bijdr. (non Walker!). Original drawings by 

 Doleschall, of which I possess copies, prove this synonymy. 

 On p. 73, line 10 from bottom, strike out the words: Dole- 

 schall etc. has it from Amboina. 



