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



Antennae, proboscis and palpi yellow ; the female has the face and the cheeks 

 entirely yellow like the rest ; the male has the face and cheeks of a velvety black 

 colour, with a broad cinereous cross-band on the inferior portion of the face and an 

 argenteous spot on the cheeks below the inferior corner of the eye ; the third antennal 

 joint in the male is moreover infuscated at the end. 



The bristles of the head and thorax are dark yellowish, those of the occipital row 

 are very thick and whitish. Pleurae of the male with cinereous pollen, those of the 

 female lighter yellow. xVbdomen shining black, narrowly reddish at the base in both 

 sexes. Coxae yellow ; hind femora of the male a little infuscated. 



Wing-pattern as described by Wiedemann ; there are often supernumerary hyaline 

 spots in the third posterior cell and at the end of the marginal and submarginal cells. 

 The spots are of a whitish colour ; the axillar lobe is blackish, with a marginal whitish 

 spot in the middle. The present species has also wings entirely black to the extreme 

 base ; the stigma is black, unspotted. There are two very strong costal bristles. 



Wiedemann describes the species from India, where it seems to be very common ; 

 the collection includes many specimens from Puri, Orissa, 4 — y-xii-oS (/. C aunter) ; 

 Moulmein, I^. Burma, ii — iii-08 {N. Annandale) ; Calcutta, iii — v ; Ranchi {Irvine) ; 

 Khoolna, E. Bengal, io-viii-07 ; and from Sikkim, Knyvett coll. Macquart records 

 the species from Coromandel. 



! . 57. Tephrostola reinhardi, Wiedemann. 



Wiedemann, Anal, entom., 54, 121 [Tryfeta] (1824) and Auss. Zweifl., ii, 507, 48 [id.'\ (1830 ). 



Distinguished from the preceding by the black colour of the thorax , haltères and 

 femora, and by the different pattern of the wing, which has no hyaline discal spots, 

 but only the base, axillar lobe and 5 indentations hyaline. 



Head yellow, with dark yellowish bristles and conspicuous whitish occipital row ; 

 frons narrower than in the preceding. Cinereous pollen of the thorax light, pleurae 

 shining, a little reddish along the sutures and at the humeri. Squamulae and haltères 

 blackish. Abdomen shining black, not reddish at the base. Wing with distinct 

 but simple costal bristle ; small cross-vein at a distance from the hind cross-vein equal 

 to its own length. Pattern as described by Wiedemann ; the two hyaline triangular 

 indentations of the fore border are very large ; axillar lobe hyaline ; base hyaline, but 

 with a conspicuous black border along the costa in the costal cell ; stigma short, 

 black. 



A single specimen from Calcutta, without date of capture (^f f ^). : 



28. Paralleloptera, n. gen. 



Very distinct from all the other genera by reason of its slender body and legs and 

 by the wings being narrow and elongate, with parallel margins, obtuse at the tip, 

 without prolonged anal cell and with very pecuHar pattern. 



Head as broad as high, frons becoming narrower in front and face also narrowed ; 

 eyes roimded ; epistome and frons not prominent ; cheeks narrow ; antennae very 



