1908.] Records of the Indian Museum. 53 



but there are two of which I have not been able to o1)tain descrip- 

 tions, viz., P. curvinervis, Str., and P. sculpeoiiata , Rond. 



P. rufocincta, mihi, sp. nov. 



cf . Burma (type) and India. Long. 6 mm. 



, Face yellowish white with a narrow black line below antennse, 

 which are blackish brown ; mouth and proboscis black ; vertex 

 shining black, narrowing rather suddenly to the eyes, which are 

 contiguous for only a ver}- short distance. 



Thorax black, shining, with a slight aenous tinge ; a few white 

 hairs on the sides, in front of insertion of wings ; dorsum with 

 short greyish hair ; scutellum unicolorous with grey hair. 



Abdomen shining black, with very short pale pubescence, the 

 whole 3rd segment reddish testaceous, and, in the type-specimen, 

 extreme tip of abdomen reddish. 



Legs yellowish white •. coxse, a narrow ring at base of four 

 anterior femora, and the basal two-thirds of hind femora black. 



Wings quite clear. 



Described from two c^ cf taken by me at Rangoon, 23-xii-04 

 to 3-i-05 (type), and from one ^ taken b}' me at Umballa (N.-W. 

 India ; altitude 900 feet), 8-13-V-05. In ni}- collection. Most 

 species of Pipizella have unmarked abdomens, but this species 

 is certainly of this genus, and apparently widely distributed. 



MELANOSTOMA, Sch. 



Dr. Annandale took specimens of M. amhiguum ^ Fin., and M: 

 duhi'iiyn , Zett., at Matiana (8,000 feet ; Simla district), both species 

 being European ones and unrecorded previously from the East. 



PLATYCHIRUS, vSt. Farg. 



Four males of P. albimanus, F., are in the Indian Museum col- 

 lection from the Simla hills (8,000 feet) ; taken by Dr. Annandale 

 between 2y-\v-oy and 3-V-07. These differ in no way from Euro- 

 pean specimens. 



SPH^ROPHORIA, vSt. Farg. 



The Oriental species in this genus will require careful revision 

 and comparison with European forms, allied to which the Indian 

 Museum possesses several species ; I have a fair amount of mater- 

 ial of my own collecting, showing considerable variation of forms, 

 from India, the Himalayas and South China. 



Herr Kertesz, in the Termes. Fiizet. (1899), ^-^ii, ^77 and 178, 

 describes two species from Papua new to Van der Wulp's list ; 

 distinctus and novce-guinece, ^ 



