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millet seeds on shore, c. 1,800', 24.xii.1961, 1 $ ; east shore of River Arun below 

 Tumlingtar, evergreen shrubs bordering dry stream-beds, c. 1,800', 14-23. xii.1961, 



3<?(flX.C). 



Distribution : Nepal (new locality), Sumatra, Viet-Nam, Formosa. 



Apart from its darker body, identical with the original form (Formosa), both 

 having glossy blue metallic mesonotum without punctures, front anteriorly orange, 

 six rows of acrostichal hairs, all femora black, somewhat convergent R i+5 and M, 

 and anteriorly narrowing relatively short periorbit. 



PARAMYCODROSOPHILA Duda 



Paramycodrosophila Duda, 1924a : 191. 



Type-species : Drosophila pictula de Meijere, 191 1 : 412 (Java). 



Paramycodrosophila pictula (de Meijere) 



(Text-figs. 152-157) 



Drosophila pictula de Meijere, 191 1 : 412 (Java). 



Paramycodrosophila pictula (de Meijere) Duda, 1924a : 191 ; 1924b : 241 (Java, Formosa) ; 

 Duda, 1926 : 58 (Sumatra) ; Wheeler and Takada, 1964 : 206 (Palau). 



$. Body about 15 mm., greyish white with black patches. Head slightly broader than 

 thorax. Eyes large, dark red, slightly purplish, sparsely pilose. Antennae with second seg- 

 ment yellow, conical ; third bhick, long, with long pubescence, anterior margin somewhat con- 

 cave. Arista with six dorsal and one long subapicoventral branches and a large terminal fork. 

 Palpus black, basally paler, slender, with a long apical seta. Ocellar triangle black. Periorbits 

 two-thirds as long as front, straight, greyish white, medially narrowing, anterior end black. 

 Front greyish brown, anteriorly pale yellow, posterolateral corner dark, pale around ocellar 

 triangle ; anteriorly slightly narrower than length down middle ; posteriorly wider, half as 

 broad as head. Face greyish white, parallel-sided. Carina high, narrow, short, pale grey, white 

 at lower tip. Cheeks white, about one-sixth as broad as the greatest diameter of eye. Occiput 

 brown. Postverticals minute. Anterior reclinate orbital outside and slightly before proclinate, 

 as long as posterior reclinate ; posterior reclinate slightly shorter than proclinate, equidistant 

 from proclinate and inner vertical. Vibrissae long, stout ; succeeding orals fine. 



Mesonotum greyish white, pollinose, with black clouds as following : a large median one 

 anteriorly bilobed to reach anterior margin, a pair of large lateral ones above suture, a pair of 

 smaller lateral ones above humeral callus, a large caudomedian one anteriorly narrowing and 

 mediolongitudinally pale. Scutellum flat, black, grey pollinose, apically pale yellow. Thoracic 

 pleura greyish white, pollinose, with two long broad black stripes. Humeral callus whitish grey. 

 Two long subequal humerals. Acrostichal hairs in eight rows. Posterior dorsocentrals twice 

 as long as anteriors ; distance between anterior and posterior dorsocentrals slightly more than 

 one-third distance between anterior pair. Anterior scutellars convergent, as long as posteriors 

 and as scutellum ; posteriors nearer to each other than to anteriors. Sterno-index about 0-5 ; 

 median sternopleural fine but long. Legs yellowish grey, with black rings, two on fore femur, 

 one on mid and hind femora, and two on fore tibia. Mid and hind metatarsi as long as next 

 three segments together, front metatarsi subequal to next two segments together. Preapicals 

 on all legs ; apicals stout on mid leg. Wings broad, hyaline, rounded at tip, with dark cloud 

 below second costal break and below it between i? 2 + 3 and M. Second costal section apically 

 much swollen and black. Second costal break deep. i? 2+3 nearly straight ; 7? 4+5 and 7W nearly 

 parallel. C-index about 30 ; 4V-index about 2-3 ; 4C-index about 17 ; 5x-index about 1-9 ; 



