RUBA. — CLITELLAlilA. 49 



23. Kuba inflata, Walk. 



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



$ . Head : frons and face one-third of head, uniformly wide 

 except for a slight contraction slightly above base of antennae ; 

 ocular triangle very small, black; an oval brown longitudinal 

 mark on frons just above the orange antenna?, of irregular shape, 

 continued as a fine line to the ocellar triangle ; whole head 

 brownish orange ; proboscis with very large labella ; tips of palpi 

 rounded, flattened, rather large, deep black;* whole head with 

 rather short, moderately dense, but not conspicuous, yellow pubes- 

 cence. Thorax and seutellum all brownish orange, with rather dense 

 yellow pubescence; traces of three longitudinal narrow blackish 

 lines on dorsum. Abdomen brownish orange, with yellow pubes- 

 cence. Legv yellowish orange, with yellow" pubescence ; apical 

 halt' of hind tibiae black, with black pubescence ; the tiny bristles 

 at the tips of the tarsi give them a blackish appearance. Wings 

 pale yellow, apical half (except extreme tip) rather bright brown, 

 darker anteriorly ; a quadrate dark brown spot of moderate size 

 at tip of 1st basal cell, extending to the costa ; anterior margin 

 of basal half of wing a little deeper yellow. 



Length, 9 mm. 



Described from a perfect female in the Indian Museum from 

 Ghumti, Darjiling District, 1000 ft., vii. 1911 {Gravely) ; and one 

 in inferior condition from Kohima, Assam. 



Walker described the species from Makassar, in Celebes, and 

 the only descrepancy is that he says nothing about the black 

 apical half of the hind tibiae. 



Genus CLITELLAEIA, Mg. 



CliteUaria, Meigen, Illig. Mag. ii, p. 265 (1803). 



Adoxomyia, Kertesz, Ann. Mus. Hung, v, p. 499 (1907) ; nom. nov. 

 for Clitellaria, Sch., nee Mg. 



Genotype, Clitellaria dahlii, Mg. (Europe) ; designated by 

 Bezzi, Wien. ent. Zeit. xvii, p. 75 (1908). f 



Head : eyes densely pubescent, contiguous in male, wide apart 

 in female ; proboscis retracted, with moderately broad labella ; 

 palpi 2-jointed, 1st joint thick, kidney-shaped, 2nd narrow, conical; 

 epistoma slightly arched. Antenna? elongate, 1st and 2nd joints 

 subequal ; 3rd elongate conical, with four annulations, with two- 



* The palpi lie along the lower side of the face and the conspicuous black 

 tips look like two black spots on it, Walker evidently mistaking them for such 

 as he mentions " a black spot on each side of the mouth/' 



1" [It seems necessary to point our. that this designation is entirely at variance 

 with the generally accepted rules of zoological nomenclature. Meigen, when 

 describing Clitellaria, definitely designated ephippiwm, F., as the genotype, 

 and no subsequent action on the part of Meigen himself or anyone else can 

 alter that fact. The correct designation for the present genus is therefore 

 Adoxomjja, Kert., and the species described above (p. 46) as Ep/hippium biline- 

 atiim should stand as Clitellaria bilineata, F. — Ed.] 



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