. Fig. 30.—Graptomysa tinctovittata, Brun., wing. vein, and a third stripe from tip of 2nd vein to, and including, the upturned end of upper branch of 4th vein ; all these stripes being narrow and indistinct yet perfectly obvious. The closed anal cell very slightly infusoated at tip. Halteres brownish- yellow. Length, 3 mm. Described from one specimen in the Indian Museum, sex uncertain but probably $ , from Sukna, base of Darjiliug Hills, 500 ft., 1. vii. 1908 (Annandale). 112. Graptomyza longirostris, Wied. Graptomijza lonyirostris, Wiedemann, Auss. Zweiti. ii, p. 208 (1830); Brunetti, Rec.
. Fig. 30.—Graptomysa tinctovittata, Brun., wing. vein, and a third stripe from tip of 2nd vein to, and including, the upturned end of upper branch of 4th vein ; all these stripes being narrow and indistinct yet perfectly obvious. The closed anal cell very slightly infusoated at tip. Halteres brownish- yellow. Length, 3 mm. Described from one specimen in the Indian Museum, sex uncertain but probably $ , from Sukna, base of Darjiliug Hills, 500 ft., 1. vii. 1908 (Annandale). 112. Graptomyza longirostris, Wied. Graptomijza lonyirostris, Wiedemann, Auss. Zweiti. ii, p. 208 (1830); Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. ii, p. 63, tig. abd. normal; abd. var. Vl-notuta, mihi (1908) ; de Meijere, Tijd. v. Eut. 11, p. 277 (1908). §. Head orange-yellow; frons and face of uniform width, being ^ of head; frons black except at sides, with a little yellow pubescence; a black median stripe from base of antennae, and a short one on each side of epistome, but none of them i-eachiug tip of snout; this latter longer than height of eyes, proboscis nearly twice as long as snout, conspicuously bifid at tip ; pro- boscis black. Antenuse brownish-orange, upper half of 3rd joint black ; arista orange, plumose. Thorax orange-yellow ; dorsum with a large black subquadrate spot filling greater part of surface, sometimes broadly reaching hind margin, with a short median black stripe in front joining the spot to anterior margin ; the yellow of the side stripe runs narrowly along suture for a shoi-t distance on each side. Pleurae about equally black and yellow, the area below humeri, and a very large triangular spot on mesopleura, yellow ; the spot contiguous to base of wiug and reaching posterior calli. Scutellum dull yellowish, a little
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