1908.] Records of the Indian Museum. 63 



GRAPTOMYZA, Wied. 



Van der Wulp's reference in his catalogue is incorrect, as the 

 genus was described ten years previously in Wiedemann's Nova 

 Dipterorum (1820), and redescribed in his Auss. Zweifi., ii (1830). 



Since that catalogue, no new Oriental species have been des- 

 cribed. Osten Sacken treats of the genus in the Berl. Ent. Zeits., 

 XX vi, 117, where he gives a table of species. 



G. longirostris, Wied. 



Var. nov. 12-notata^ mihi. 



{Graptomyza 12-notota , Bigot, noni. nud.) 



A specimen in the Indian Museum collection seems to be 

 but a variety of longirostris, Wied., although presumably the t3''pe 

 of Bigot's species 12-notata {nom. mid.). It, however, agrees quite 

 well with both Wiedemann's description and his three figures, 

 except that the longitudinal stri]:)es are interrupted at the 

 juncture of the segments, thus being divided into twelve separate 

 elongated spots placed in four longitudinal rows, the " stripes " 



Graptomyza longirostris, Wied. Graptomyza longirostris, Wied, var. 



i2-notata. Big., nom. nud. 



being simply broader. On tlie strength of this close resemblance 

 I can oniv admit it j^rovisionalh as a vaiiety. A second speci- 

 men in the collection (from Tenasserim) ap;rees more closely still 

 with Wiedemann's iisure of the abdomen, tlie black longitudinal 

 stripes being narrower, and continuous. 



Bigot's second species " 6-notata " must be near vcntralis, 

 Wied. ■' according to Ostein Sacken's table, from which it would be 

 separated by the six well-defined sub-triangular spots on the abdo- 

 men, which is bordered on each side by a rather wide dark 1)rown 

 line. 



G. sexnotata, mihi, sp. nov. 



(Id. id., Bigot, nom. nud.) 

 9 . Sikkim. Long. 7^ mm. 

 Head : frons, vertex, face, entirely yellow, eyes blackish 

 brown , with very short greyish pubescence ; frontal space less than 

 one-third the width of the head. Antennae, entirely uniformly dark 

 yellow, with plumose orange arista. A dark brown square spot on 

 frons above the antennae is continued as a stripe below to the 



