Genus Brevirhynchus. 
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areas of the mesonotum; prothoracic lobes with fiat creamy- 
white scales. ■ 
Abdomen black with violet reflections, the first segment 
unhanded, with very fine pale hairs, second segment with a large 
creamy median basal spot, traces of a pale area on each side near 
the apex, but not nearly forming a band, the third to fifth 
segments with almost complete white bands towards the apical 
borders % a trace of pale scales on the sixth, similar to the 
second; apical segment with a brassy sheen and some golden- 
brown chaetae, a yellow lateral line on each segment, venter 
black and white. 
Legs black . with white basal bands; femora black, pale 
beneath, in the hind pair white at the base and below except at 
the apex ; a pale, almost white spot at the base of the fore 
metatarsals and first two tar sals, in the mid legs the banding is 
slightly more pronounced, especially on the metatarsi, in the hind 
legs all the tarsi have basal white bands and the chaetae are 
prominently pale ; ungues equal and simple. 
Wings with dense brown scales § the first sub-marginal longer 
and narrower than the second posterior cell, its base nearer the 
base of the wing, its stem less than one-third the length of the 
cell; stem of the second posterior not quite as long as the cell; 
posterior cross-vein nearly twice its own length distant from the 
mid; halteres with the stem grey, then fuscous and the knob 
creamy-white. 
Length. —5 * 5 mm. 
Habitat.— Maddathoray, W. base of W. Ghats, Travancore 
(Annandale). 
Time of capture. —16. xi. 03. 
Observations .—Described from a single perfect ? . At once 
told from any other known member of the genus by the banded 
palpi. The abdomen is relatively long and thin. The proboscis 
is short and thick but not so bent as in the type of the genus. 
Type in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 
Brevirhynchus apioalis. Theobald (1910). 
Rec. Ind. Mus. 7, IY. (1910). 
Head ochreous with a median and two lateral black patches § 
proboscis and palpi black. Thorax deep golden-brown scaled 
with a pale ochreous border around the sides and front; pleurae 
