1909.] Records of the Indian Museum. 449 



N.B. — Three specimens in my collection (? cf cf) from Kand}^ 

 (Ceylon), taken October and November, 1907, are, I think, refer- 

 able to this species. 



7. appendiculata, Big., 1892, Ann. So. Knt. Fr., 347, 9 . 

 Loc. — Pondicherry. Type in Bigot collection. 



8. fallax, Meij., 1907, Tijd. v. Ent. I^., 244 (no sex men- 



tioned). 

 Loc. — Semarang (Java) in January. 



N.B. — Four specimens in the Pusa collection from Chapra 

 (Bengal) are either fallax or a new and closely allied species. 



9. gentilis, mihi, sp. nov.,cr' 9 . 



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

 Loc. — Bengal, Assam. Type in Indian Museum collection. 

 Plate xii, fig. 25 (wing). 



10 distigma, Wied., 1828, Auss. Zwei., i, 309 {Anthrax) 



(=9 t. Os. Sack., B.' E. Z., xxvi, 

 112); Macq., Dipt. Ex., ii, i, 58 (336) 

 {Anthrax); V. d. Wulp, Notes Lej^d. 

 Mus., vii, 83 {Argyramoeha) ; id., Tijd. 

 Ent., xxiii, 166 ; Os. Sack., B. E. Z., 

 xxvi, 112 {Argyramoeha). 

 Anthrax argyropyga. Doles., Nat. Tijd. Ned, 



Ind., xiv, 401. 

 Anthrax tripunctata, V. d. Wulp, Tijd. Ent., 



xi, 109, pi. iv, I (wing). 

 Anthrax trimaculata, V. d. Wulp, loc. cit., p. 



no, pi. iv, 2 (wing). 



Argyramoeha consohrina, Big., nom. nud. [Ind. 



Mus. Coll. t. m.]. 



Loc. — Java, Gorontalo, Celebes, Sumatra, Amboina, Salawatty, 



Timor [all t. V. Wulp]; Nicobar Is. [t. Sch.]; Phil. Is., Papua, 



[both t. Os. Sack.]; Darjiling and Java [t. Meij.]; Dehra Dun, 



Lucknow, Purneah Dist., Bangalore, Calcutta (all India and all 



5 ? of the trimaculata, V. Wulp, form) [Ind. Mus. Coll. t. ?n.] ; 



Kandy, Calcutta, Jullundur (India), 5-V-1905, and Mindanao [Coll. 



mihi] ; Friedrich Wilhelmshafen and Erima, Astrolabe Bay (Papua) 



[t. V. Wulp] ; Semarang in August and Batavia in July [both 



Java, t. Meij ere.]. The Pusa collection possesses a good series 



extending from 27-iv to 8-vi, and again from 21-viii to 30- xi, 



the localities being Arrah, i3-ix-i907, Thurla, i3-iv-i905, Chapra 



(all Bengal); Allahabad, 27-X-1905 [Howlett], Bombay, iv-1905 



(var. trimaculata). 



Coquillett records it from Japan (under Spogostylum). 

 Type in Ley den Museum. 



N.B. — I accept Herr Meijere's synonymy as to trimaculata, 

 V. d. Wulp, which form is the only one I have seen of the species. 

 It appears to be distributed all over the East and is very variable 

 in size (6^ to 10^ millimetres). A specimen in the Indian Museum, 



