i:\DIAN DRAG ON FLIES. 679 



Wings hyaliiie, without any vestige of a basal brown marking, the apices 

 slightly suffused with brown and a yellow tinting at the anal angle ; 17 

 antenodal nervures, 7-9 postnodals, hypertrigone traversed 2 to 3 times, cubital 

 nervures numerous, usually about 5 ; stigma black, about 2 cells in length, 

 3mm. long ; membrane white or greyish. Eeticulation black as well as the 

 costa. 



Head large ; labium, labrum and face dark brown ^ath a coppery sheen, 

 marked wdth yellow as follows : — a transverse, basal, interrupted spot at the 

 middle of labrum, a basal stripe, two small, triangular spots in the middle and a 

 lateral on the nasus and a lateral spot near the eyes. 



Thorax steely black with a brilhant, greenish blue, metalHc reflection. The 

 antealar sinus a light brown, an antehumeral, straight narrow, dark vellow 

 stripe and a broadish oblique stripe on the sides of the same colour. 



Abdomen cyhndrical, tumid at the base and a httle thickened from segments 

 6 to 10, steely black in colour marked with yellow as follows : — a median, obhque 

 annule on the 2nd segment, a similar on the 3rd but interrupted by the dorsal 

 carina, a subdorsal spot on each side of the dorsal carina on the 4th, an annule 

 on the 7th occupying about the basal 4th and slightly broken by the dorsal crest, 

 a basal vestige of the same on the 8th. The 10th segment dark brown on the 

 dorsum, with no markings a.nd a sniall tubercle at its base. 

 Legs black, the extreme base of femora brown. 



Anal appendges black, the superior as long as the 10th segment, the apical 

 half curved slightly and an angular spine on the outer side at about its middle. 

 Jemale unknown. 

 Hah. Ceylon. 



3. Epophthalmia vittata, Burm. Handbk, Ent. 1839, 

 Selys, loc. cit. 

 Martin, loc. cit. 

 Male, abdomen 50 mm., hindwing 48 mm. : female abdomen 58 mm., hind wing 

 52 mm. 



Male : wings hyaline with a diffuse, yellow tinting at the anal angle ; mem- 

 brane pale grey, darker at the anal border ; stigma 3 mm., pale brown, not quite 

 covering 1| cells ; 15 to 17 antenodal nervures, 7 postnodals ; hypertrigone 

 traversed 3 to 4 times : 5 to 6 cubital nervures : the discoidal field commencing 

 with a single row of 3 cells and then continued as 2 rows of cells ; reticulation 

 black, the costa finely yellow. 



General colouring ochreous brown, marked Anth yellow. 



Labium, labrum and face reddish brown with 2 basal, yellow spots to the 

 labrum, a sinuous transverse band on the nose, a small, subtriangular spot 

 between this and the eyes. No markings on the upper part of frons which is 

 steely black with a coppery reflection. 



Black or ochreous brown according to age, the front being metaUic with the 

 antealar sinus and a slightly curved antehumeral band on each side wMch nearly 

 meets the antealar sinus yellow. Laterally a large, medium, yellow band 

 wliich is continued over the tergum between the roots of the wings, meeting its 

 fellow from the other side. 



Abdomen cylindrical, tumid at the base, thickened from segments 6 to 10, 

 black or deep' brown, marked with yellow as follows :— complete rings on seg- 

 ments 2 and 3 before the base and siiiailar ones on 4 to 7 but broader and occupy- 

 ing nearly the apical half of each segment, on segments 8 and 9 the annules still 

 broader, occupying neariy the whole of the dorsum, but badly defined and diffuse. 

 10th yellow. 



Legs blackish brown, the femora rather paler, 



A small tubercle at the base of the 10th segment. The superior anal append- 

 ages yellow, rather longer than the 10th segment. 



