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Genus Orthopodomyia. 
Abdomen more ornate, with basal white bands to all the 
segments and with three pairs of median white spots. 
Wings and legs similar to the 9 • 
Length. —5 mm. 
Habitat. —Andaman Islands (Lowis and Ray White), four 
9 J s; Peradeniya, Ceylon, three ’s (E. E. Green) (2,423) ; 
Maddathoray, W. base of W. Ghats, Travancore (Annandale), 
one $, Ind. Mus. Coll. 
Time of capture. —22. vii. 08, Andaman Islands ; 5. vii. 09 in 
Ceylon; 17. xi. 09 in Travancore. 
Observations. —A very marked and beautiful species. 
Type 9 in British Museum ; type $ in Indian Museum, Calcutta. 
Orthopodomyia maculata. Theobald (1910). 
Kec. Ind. Mus. IV., 29 (1910). 
Thorax rich brown, ornamented with golden and creamy 
scales ; head with pale creamy scales ; proboscis with one small 
median white band; palpi of male about three-fourths the length 
of the proboscis, white at base and apex and with two median 
white bands. Abdomen black with basal white bands and two 
median white spots to some segments. Wings with dark scales 
and white spots. Fore and mid legs unhanded, hind with pro¬ 
minent white bands and last segment all white. 
3. Head brown, with narrow-curved and upright forked 
scales of a pale creamy to almost white hue, the fork scales 
numerous and uniformly scattered over the head ; antennae with 
pale creamy and brown bands, plume hairs brown to flaxen, 
basal segment black with small broad creamy scales dotted over 
it; the first few segments of the flagellum with long white and 
creamy scales; palpi black, white scaled at the apex, a few white 
scales at the base and two median white bands, one near the apex ; 
golden chaetae at the apex ; about three-fourths the length of the 
proboscis, the latter black with one median narrow white band. 
Thorax black, clothed with large narrow-curved creamy 
scales, the majority golden, but some white ones in front; at the 
sides and over the roots of the wings and before the scutellum 
are some areas of dark bronzy ones; chaetae long, golden and 
brown; scutellum black with long silvery-white scales and long 
golden border-bristles; metanotum black; pleurae brown with 
patches of flat white scales and some long thin ones beneath the 
wings; prothoracic lobes with flat white scales. 
