1908.] Records of the Indian Museum. yy 



Legs black, femora fringed with whitish hair below, posterior 

 femora with black hair on upper side , the basal half and tips of 

 the femora, four anterior tarsi, tip of posterior metata'rsus. and 

 apical half of next joint, tawny yellow : under side of whole pos- 

 terior tarsi with bright golden 3'ellow pubescence : four anterior 

 tarsi with some white hairs at base. 



Wmgs clear, iridescent, veins well marked, stigma brown ; 

 tegulae and halteres yellowish. 



Described from the one type-specimen in the Indian Museum 

 collection. It is near argyroptts, Dol., but distinct by the wholly 

 clear wing. 



N.B.—l have a Eumerus taken by me at Mussoorie, 20-24- 

 vi-05, and another species taken b}^ me at Lucknow, 2-xii-o4, but 

 shall reserve these for further consideration. The first I cannot 

 identify with any of Schiner's species, but in \4ew of the forty 

 known European species, any one of which it may be, I refrain 

 from describing it as new. 



SYRITTA, St. Farg. et Serv 



In a subsequent paper I hope to deal with this genus. Five 

 species have been recorded from the East, all apparently bearing 

 considerable resemblance to one another. 5. pipiens, L., the very 

 common European and North American species, has not been 

 recorded, but I have taken it m^^self not only at Mussoorie and 

 Darjiling, but from the Indian plains also. M}^ first impressions 

 derived from a study of the Oriental species of this genus are 

 that there ma}' be only three species : (i) pipiens, L., of which 

 orientalis, Mcq., and indica, W., maybe synonyms; (2) a species 

 with the pairs of spots replaced by entire bands which, when 

 interrupted, are only ver}^ slightly so. This species would be 

 amhoinensis , Dol., with illucida, Wlk., as a possible synonym, 

 although in the latter the bands are straight, whilst in amhoin- 

 ensis, Dol., they are not so. The third species varies from both, 

 but approximates most to pipiens. 



On the other hand there may be eight or ten good species. 

 One specimen in m}' own collection taken by me at Agra, 4-iv-05, 

 has the posterior femora nearly wholly bright red and the 2nd pair 

 of abdominal spots also reddish. 



An example in the Indian Museum collection has the second 

 pair of spots nearly as large as the first pair, whilst a third species, 

 which occurs in Calcutta and elsewhere (Karachi), has a broad pale 

 entire band occup^dng two segments. This is labelled 5. laticincta, 

 Bigot, which is I believe a nomen nudum, but the species may be a 

 good one. Other specimens in inferior condition in the Indian 

 Museum collection may prove to be still further species. 



XYLOTA, Meig. 



The Indian Museum possesses specimens named by Bigot, 

 cuprina, cupropicta , flavitarsis, and auronitens, all being his own 



