DOLICHOCEPIIALA. XRICHOPEZA. 371 



305. Dolichocephala septemnotata, Brim. (PI. IV, figs. 19-21.) 



Dolichocephala septemnotata, Brunetti, Ii.ec. Ind. Mus. ix, p. 35 

 (1913). 



J . Head blackish ; frons broad, some stiff hairs on both frons 

 and occiput ; epistoine (the whole of the head below the eyes) 

 conical, short, half the height of the rest of the head. Antennae 

 black ; 3rd joint conical, with long black thick arista, microscopi- 

 cally pubescent ; no palpi apparent. Thorax and abdomen wholly 

 black, moderately shining, practically bare, except for a few stiff 

 hairs laterally on the former ; genitalia small, rounded, simple. 

 Legs pale yellowish, upper side of fore femora and tips of tarsi a 

 little brownish. Wings very pale brown, with seven very distinct 

 moderate-sized circular pale spots; six of these are placed in two 

 parallel rows of three in each ; the upper row just above the 3rd 

 longitudinal vein, the lower row a little above the hind margin of 

 the wing, so that the spots appear like three pairs situated longi- 

 tudinally ; the 1st pair (i. e. the basal spots of both rows) is 

 situated a little before the middle of the wing ; the 2nd pair a 

 little beyond the middle ; the 3rd pair half-way between the 2nd 

 pair and the wing-tip, the upper spot being in the middle of the 

 submarginal cell ; of- the spots iu the longer row, the first is 

 placed a little before, the second a little beyond the lower branch 

 of the 5th longitudinal vein ; the third is iu the middle of the 

 2nd posterior cell ; the seventh spot is near the wing-tip, at 

 the end of the 1st posterior cell ; the 3rd, 4th, and 5th longi- 

 tudinal veins are all wavy, the 3rd is forked at two-thirds the 

 length of the wing, the submarginal cell narrowed in the middle, 

 with the marginal cross-vein just beyond the cell's base, uniting it 

 to the 2nd -longitudinal vein just before its tip; the 4th longi- 

 tudinal vein, although wavy, is mainly in a straight line, and 

 divides the wing into nearly equal parts, ending just below the 

 wing-tip ; anterior cross-vein very near base of wing : posterior 

 cross-vein at middle of wing, joining the upper branch of the 

 widely-forked 5t\i vein soon after the furcation ; anal cell oblong, 

 very short ; halteres brownish yellow. 



Length, 1| mm. 



Described from one S in the Indian Museum from Simla, 

 10. v. 1909 (Annandale). 



Genus TRICHOPEZA, Bond. 

 Tricojteza, Rondaui, Dipt. Ital. Prod, i, p. 150 (18ot>j {emend.). 



Genotype, Brachystoma longicornis, Mg. (Europe) ; by original 

 designation. 



Head a little broader than long, slightly broader than thorax ; 

 eyes occupying whole front of head, shortly pubescent, separated 

 above antenna? in both sexes, contiguous below for some distance, 

 frontal facets in both sexes enlarged. Proboscis thin, nearly 



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