i6o Memoirs of the Indian Museum. [Voi,. Ill, 



antennae, palpi and proboscis yellow ; arista shortly pubescent ; or. 1.2; bristles 

 black ; occipital row well developed, whitish. 



Thorax with densely grey pollination, the pleura yellowish ; pale pubescence well- 

 developed ; bristles black, some yellow on the pleura ; scutellum like the thorax, 

 with only the basal pair of bristles. Squamulae white, haltères yellowish. Abdomen 

 shining black, with black bristles ; ovipositor black, and more shining than the abdo- 

 men. Legs with the coxae entirely yellow. 



Wings black, with hyahne base and entirely black stigma. There are the following 

 hyaline spots along the fore border : one before the stigma, with another smaller one 

 just below ; a row of three in the marginal cell, that of the middle being of larger size 

 and having another. spot below, from which it is divided only by the second vein. Two 

 spots are at the tip, one, larger, between the ends of the 3rd and 4th veins, and one 

 smaller just above the end of the 3rd vein. At the hind margin : two in the second 

 posterior cell, the second being larger and three in the third posterior cell, the third 

 being of larger size. The discal spots are : one in the first basal and one in the first 

 posterior cell, at equal distance from the small cross- vein ; two in the discal cell, one 

 greater in contact with that of the first basal cell and one smaller on the lower external 

 angle, in contact with the first of the three spots of the third posterior cell. 



A single pair from Calcutta, 2-ix-07 and 9-X-07 {^j\~, -^tI')- 



This species belongs to a small well-characterized group, distinguished by the 

 black abdomen, black wings with only a few hyaline spots and the apical scutellar 

 bristles wanting. Of these species, tristis, Loew, has more spots at the tip of the wing 

 and therefore the black pattern is here radiate ; semiatra, Loew, has a hyaline spot in 

 the first posterior cell after the small cross- vein ; parce- guttata , Becker, is very like 

 the present species, but shows two hyahne discal spots in the first posterior cell ; mar- 

 gar iti fera , Bezzi, has a spotted stigma and more numerous hyahne spots. The first and 

 third of these species are Mediterranean, the second and fourth Ethiopian. 



The collection includes, in addition, a single specimen, without head, of a species 

 from Theog, Simla Hills, 8000 ft., 13-V-09 (A^. Annandale), which seems to be allied 

 to the European tessellata . 



32. Campiglossa, Rondani. 



Ronclani, Bull. Soc. eiitom. ital., ii, 121 (1870). 



Distinguished by the robust cinereous black-spotted body, by the short but geni- 

 culate proboscis, its apical portion being thick and membranous, and by the radiating 

 pattern of the wings. 



Head broader than high, frons and epistome prominent ; cheeks rather broad ; 

 border of the mouth fringed with short and thick whitish hairs ; eyes rather narrowed ; 

 frons broad, with the limula greatly developed ; antennae placed below the middle 

 of the eyes, with the third joint a little pointed and almost bare arista ; oc. strong ; 

 or. 2. 2 ] occipital row very strong ; occiput below with many whitish thick bristly 

 hairs ; genal bristle less distinct ; palpi bristly ; proboscis thick, with the terminal 

 portion cubitate but short and thick. 



