144 Memoirs of the Indian Museum. [Vol.. Ill, 



47. Acidia apicalis, n. sp. <3' . 

 (PI. ix, fig. 47). 



A yellow species closely allied to the preceding, but distinct by reason of the very 

 broad cheeks, the black-spotted metanotum, the very long stigma and different pattern 

 of the wings. I^engtli of the body 7 mm. , of the wing 9 mm. 



Head as in the preceding, but the cheeks very broad, and the occiput swollen 

 inferiorly ; the black bristles of the cheeks are also wanting, only the genal bristle 

 of dark yellowish colour being present ; antennae of the male dark ferruginous. 



Thorax as in the preceding ; a single mpl. ; two small black spots on the fore 

 border, near the scp. ; metanotum with two very large shining black spots ; hypo- 

 pleura with a small basal black border. Scutellum pale yellow toward the hind border. 

 Abdomen with the last segment shining black, ferruginous toward the middle and 

 on the sides. I^egs entirely pale yellow. 



Wings very long, the fourth vein a little bent after the hind cross- vein; cross- veins 

 very approximate, the distance being smaller than the length of the hind cross-vein ; 

 first vein very long, passing the small cross- vein, the stigma therefore twice as long 

 as in the preceding, entirely black. Costal cell hyaline, with less distinct spots. 

 Just below the stigma and in contact with it is a broad black patch, reaching back- 

 wards to the apex of the second basal cell, which is hyaline, and sending forwards a 

 shortened band over the small cross-vein, which ends towards the middle of the discal 

 cell with a yellowish indistinct spot below. A large apical patch beginning before 

 the end of the second vein and extending forwards to the end of the 4th vein, includ- 

 ing a hyaline subapical spot over the end of the 4th vein, and a basal indentation on 

 the base of the last portion of the 4th vein ; hind cross- vein with a narrow, isolated 

 brown border ; there is also a brown isolated streak on the fore border after the 

 stigma. By uniting along the third vein the apical black spot with the basal one, the 

 pattern of this species becomes very like that of the preceding. 



A single specimen from Darjiling, 7000 ft., 23-v-io, caught by Mr. Brunetti. 



48. Acidia fossata, Fabricius. 

 (PI. ix, fig. 48). 

 Fabricius, Syst. Aiitl., 320, 20 [Tephritis] (1805) .; Wiedemann, Auss. Zweifl., ii, 503, 41 [Trypeta] 

 (1S30); Wulp, Cat. describ. Dipt. S. Asia, 192 [icL] (1896), Tijdschr. v. entom,, xli. 216, 3, pi. x, fig. 

 14 [Anomoea] (1898) and /. c, xlii, 54 and 57 [id.] {i8gg).—Elimia, Walker, List Dipt. Brit. Mus., iv, 

 1033 [Anomoia] (1849) ; Osten-Sacken, Berlin, entom. Zeitschr., xxvi, 227 [Trypeta] (1882). — regularis, 

 Doleschall, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind., xvii, 119, 75 [Ortalis] (1859). — fessata, Bigot, [ourn. Asiat. Soc. 

 Bengal, Ixi, 224 [Trypeta] (1892). 



A black, weU-known species with yellow head and appendages, easily distin- 

 guished by the apical isolated black band of the wings. 



Scutellum dark reddish at the hind margin and below ; thorax narrowly reddish 

 at the humeri ; all the bristles of body and legs black ; haltères black ; front coxae 

 yellow. 



The wing-pattern is not correctly figured by Wulp. The brown band along the 



