. Diptera Brachycera. Brachycera. BACCIIA. 127 tibi;e, dark brown or black ; upper side of hind metatarsus rich dark gokleu-brown, tlie colour more or less extending to the under side, which is covered with golden-brown hair ; remainder of bind tarsi orange-yellow. Whigs clear grey; subcostal cell blackisii, costal cell and about the basal half of tlie marginal cell brownish, and the costa from the end of the stigma to the tip of tiie 3rd vein, narrowly and distinctly black suffused. HaUeres yellow. Lenyth, 9-11 Fig. 26.—Baccha amjjhithoe. Walk., wing. The above is the amal
. Diptera Brachycera. Brachycera. BACCIIA. 127 tibi;e, dark brown or black ; upper side of hind metatarsus rich dark gokleu-brown, tlie colour more or less extending to the under side, which is covered with golden-brown hair ; remainder of bind tarsi orange-yellow. Whigs clear grey; subcostal cell blackisii, costal cell and about the basal half of tlie marginal cell brownish, and the costa from the end of the stigma to the tip of tiie 3rd vein, narrowly and distinctly black suffused. HaUeres yellow. Lenyth, 9-11 Fig. 26.—Baccha amjjhithoe. Walk., wing. The above is the amalgamation of my description of Jiavo- jnuictata (built up on a single $ in the Indian Museum from Dibrugarh, Assam, 17-19. xi. 1911 (Kemp)) with Austen's descrip- tion of Walker's amphithoe, with which species my species is, as proved by examination, identical. Walker described the species from a single headless specimen in the British Museum from Moul- mein; whereas Austen's re-description is from several of both sexes. Sibpur, Bengal, 4. iv. 1913 (Gravely); Calcutta (Graveli/); 8ukna, Rungpo, Sikkim, 6. ix. 1909; Cherrapunji, Assam, 440U ft., 2-8 X. 1914 (Kemj)); Moulmein (Terburi/) • Kanthalai, 8. iii. 1892; Kottawa, 2-1. iv. 1892 ; Trincomalee ; Galle (all Ceylon, Yerhuri/). I surmise that pedkellata, Dol., vcsjxeformis, Dol., and yraliosa, Big., are closely allied to amphWwe. Genus RHINOBACCHA, de Mevj. Rhinobaccha, de Meijere, Tijd. v. Eut. li, p. 315 1908). GEyoTYPE, R, r/racilis, de Meij.; t. c. p. 316, d" ? , pi. viii, fig. 38, head (profile). Body narrow. Eyes bare; in c? not conspicuous, a little wider apart in $ ; antenna) short, 3rd joint rather longer tiian broad, arista bare. Epistome produced downward into a long snout as in Ilhingia ; proboscis long, about IJ times height of head in the type-species. Ahdomen narrow, only a little broader at tip. Jlind femora not thickened, not spinose. Whtijs narrow, alulse rudimentary ; cross-veins bent towards the win
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