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XXII.—New and Little-Known Diptera Nematocera from Ceylon Annals and Magazine of Natural History Series 8 ISSN: 0374-5481 (Print) (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/tnah14 XXII.—New and little-known Diptera Nematocera from Ceylon F.W. Edwards To cite this article: F.W. Edwards (1913) XXII.—New and little-known Diptera Nematocera from Ceylon , Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 12:68, 199-204, DOI: 10.1080/00222931308693386 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222931308693386 Published online: 15 Sep 2009. Submit your article to this journal View related articles Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=tnah14 Download by: [ECU Libraries] Date: 30 March 2016, At: 10:07 On Diptera Nematoeera from Ceylon. 199 thcKsoN, S. J.--~A Naturalist in North Celebes.' Murray: London, 1889. LIST, TH.--" Ueber die Entwickelung yon Protein krystalloiden in den Kernen der Wanderzellen bei Eehiniden." Anal Anz. xiv. pp. 185-191. M'INToSrI, W. C.--" The Coloration of Marine Animals." Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 7, vol. vii. 1901, pp. 221-240. MACMUNN, C. A.--" Contributions to Animal Chromatology.--Echine- derms." Quart. Journ. Micros. Sc. xxx. (1889). ibid. Journ. Mar. Biol. Assoc. n. s., i. March 1899. MmSSNErq M.--"Ueber die yon Herrn Marine-Stabsarzt Dr. Sander heimgebrachten Seeigel." Sitzber. Gesell. naturf. Berlin~ Nov. 1892, p,pj 183-185. MORTENSEN, ~H.--'t Echinoidea." The Danish t Ingolf ' Expedition, vol. iv. pt. i. Copenhagen~ 1903. NEwnmi.% MARIOS I.--' Colour in Nature : a Study in Biology.' 8re, xii+344 pp. London : Murray, 1898. SIMROTrr, H.~" Zur Kenntniss der Azorenfauna.---Echinodermata." Arch. f. Natur. Bd. i. Heft 3 (1888), pp. 231-23~ (published April 1889). Berlin. XXII.~New and little-known Diptera Nematoeera from Ciglon. By F. W. EDWARDS. (Pablished by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) A SMALL collection of Diptera Nematocera recently made by ]Hr. J. C. F. Fryer in Ceylon contains a number of interesting forms which it seems desirable to place on record: several appear to be new to science, while others, previously known from other regions, have not till now been recor~ted from Ceylon. The types of the new species have been generously presented to the National Collection by Mr. Fryer. In addition to the species referred to in more detail below, the Downloaded by [ECU Libraries] at 10:07 30 March 2016 collection contains the follo~ving :wSciara rufithorax, Wulp ; Leiomyia areuata (Brun.); Allaetoneura eineta, Meij.; Pleeia fulvleollis, F.; Phlebotomus maeulatus, Ann. ; /~s~- ehoda albopicta, Brun. ; Ochlerotatus palliclostriatus (Theo.); W~jeomyia greenii, Theo.; PsellioThora taprobanes (Walk.) ; Tipula ochripes, Brun. ; _Pachyrhina Tleurinotata, Brun.; _Paehgrhiua P javensls, Dol. ; Libnotes pceeiloptera, O.-S. ; Teueholabisfenestrata, O.-S. ; Teucholabis (6~ymnastes) e~tanea, Edw. ; Conosia irrorala~ Wied. ; ~riocera cr~/stalloptera, O.-S. ; ~7. tuberculifera, Edw.; E. etenophoroides, Edw.; E. albonotata, Lw. 200 Mr. F. W. Edwards on Mycetophilid~. 1. Macrocera /ryeri, sp. n. Length of body 3-4 mm., of antenna 12-16 mm. d. Brownish yellow ; wings not hairy~ with dark markings. Head yellowish, more brownish on the vertex; antennm with the first three joints yellowish, the remainder dark brown; palpi brownish. Thorax yellowish brown; a dark brown vertical stripe on the pleurm, extending on to the sides of the mesonotum, situated between the first two pairs of legs. Abdomen brownish yellow, the middle segments indistinctly darker at the base. Legs yellowish brown, the tarsi somewhat darker. Wings bare; apical third occupied by a large dark brown patch, the anterior edge of which is rather irregular and has a large angular projection on Cul ; another brown patch towards t-he costa near the middle of the wing, filling the greater portion of the eell R1 ; a small one near costa, more towards the base, including origin of Rs, and a brown spot in t!m cell Cul a little way from the base ; Se reaching costa opposite origin of Rs. H~lteres yellowish, knobs dark. Peradeniya, ix. 1911 ; 4 d'- The strongly darkened apical third of the wing plainly marks this species off from the seven described by Brunetfi from the Orient. Downloaded by [ECU Libraries] at 10:07 30 March 2016 Macroeerafrgeri, sp. n. Wing, × 13. 2. Lelomyla maeullcoxa (Enderlein). Lela nlaculico.va, End. Trans. Linn. Soe., Zool. xiv. p. 69 (1910). l~hymosiafasdpes, Brun. Fauna Brit. Ind. p. 106 (1912). Peradeniya, x. 1912 ; 1 ~. There is no doubt as to the above syrronymy, since tim genitalia of the Ceylon and Seychelles specimens appea. Diptera IYematoeera from Ceylon. 201 identical and the coloration is practically the same, the only difference being that the Seychelles specimens have a more or less distinct dark fascia near the apex of the wing, which in the Ceylon specimens is so faint as to be practically absent. The lateral oeelli are absolutely contiguous with "tim eye- margins and the subcosta is very faint in its apical portion, not distinctly reaching the costa. These two peculiarities no doubt led Brunetti to place the species in Rhymosia, but the general appearance and (apart from the evanescent subcosta) tire venation are those of a typical Leiomyia. Precisely the same peculiarities are exhibited by Leia seyehellensis, End., and by some undeseribed African species which I have examined. Brunetti's Rhyrnosia annulieornls and R. flume- falls are doubtless also species of Leiomyia. Le~omyia, Rend. (emended form of Lejomya, RondO, is the name which should be used for Glaphyroptera, Winn. Leia, Mg., is wrongly applied to it. Since Winnertz was the first person to divide Meigen's Leia~ by the rules of the Zoological Congress hm mterprctatmn must be followed. Gurtrs desl¢- nated a type of ieia whictt Winnertz did not accept, and Rondani renamed the genus, thinking the original name was preoccupied ; but these facts are altogether irrelevant. L~ironomid~. 3. Ceratopogon (s. str.) jaeobso,~i, ~.leij. Wijd. v. Ent. I. p. 212 (190;). Peradeniya, i. 1912. "Attracted by alcohol." 7 ?. In all but one of these specimens the postnotum is blackish; in the remaining one, as (presumably) in the Javanese specimens, it is yellowish. 'Ihe posterior branch of the cubitus (Cu~) is oblique outwardly, not inwardly as iI~ de M eijere's figure. :Nevertheless, I have little doubt that Downloaded by [ECU Libraries] at 10:07 30 March 2016 C.jacobsoni is the species before me. 4. Ceratopogon (s. str.) hirtipes, Meij. Tijd. v. Ent. 1. p. 209 0907). Peradeniya, 17. xi. 1911, 4 ~; i. 1912, 1 ~. " 17. xi. 1911. Two larvae of Pa_pilio clytia found in gardens ; each was being attacked (sucked) by a small fly, apparently a O,eratopogon ?--J. C. ft. Fr~/er." The dark ring on the hind femora reaches almost to the tip, leaving only the extreme knee-tip bare. In this species, as in the preceding, the eyes of tile female are contiguous. Both species have till now been recorded only fi'om Java. Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Set. 8. Vol. xii. 14 202 Mr. F. W. Ed~vards on 5. Maeropezajavanensisj Kieff. Mere. Ind. Mus. il. p. 210 (1910). Maeropeza #~bosa, Meij. (nee Wied.) Tijd. v. Ent. 1. (1907). Peradeniya, ii. 1912 ; 1 ? This species is very much iike the following ; it differs in the dull brownish-black (not shining black) thorax, which is only very slightly produced forwards and does not end in a sharp point; also in the yellow (instead of black) femora and tibim. By the last-named character it also differs from M. albitarsis, Mg. 6. Macropeza #ibbosa, Wied. Analecta Enf. p. I0 (1824:). Calylotopo#on albitards, Kieff. Mere. Ind. hIus. ii. p. 209 (1910). Peradeniya, x. 19tl-ii. 1912 ; 4 ~. Wiedemaun's brief description of M. glbbosa notes all tile more salient features of Kieffer's G. albitarsis, and tile two m~mes may be safely considered to apply to the same species. The genera Macropeza and Cal!/lololooyon are so similar that the propriety of their separation seems open to question. Tipulid~. 7. Tipula gracilllma, Brun. Fauna Brit. Ind. p. 302 (1912). Peradeniya~ vi. 1912 ; 1 ~. Brunetti has apparently overlooked the fact that the white rings on the femora are present on the two anterior pairs only. 8. Pselllophora ? elongat% sp. n. Length of body 34 ram., of wing 23 ram. Brown; wings clouded; abdomen with whitish lateral spots. Downloaded by [ECU Libraries] at 10:07 30 March 2016 Head dark reddish brown, p~lpi and antennae blackish brown towards the apex. Antenn~ 13-jointed, a little shorter than the thorax, sparsely hairy; second joint extremely short, flagellar joints about equal in length, the first six each with two prominent rounded lobes on the underside, becoming less marked in the apical joints. Tho~'awdark brown ; meso- notum in front of the suture with four lighter reddish-brown stripesj the two middle ones closely approximated and reaching the front margin, the lateral ones only about half as long ; behind the suture on each side are two reddish-brown spots; scutellum almost round~ reddish brown; postnotum reddish brown in the middle, dark brown at the sides; _D~lera 2~emalocerafrom Oeylon. 203 pleurae with some small pale patches. Abdome~ long and tapering, dark brown, tile first tbur or five segments with ill-defined reddish-brown patches above, while the first seven segments have almost triangular creamy-white lateral spots, situated at the base of each segment, except those on the second segment, which are placed near the middle. Ovi- positor dark brown. Legs short and stout, dark brownish, the whole tarsi not much longer than the tibiae. Wings very broad (7"5 ram.), strongly infuscated, the veins narrowly bordered with blackish; costal cell yellowish brown; light~ patches as follows : (1) in the upper basal cell (R) just before origin of Rs ; (2) a larger patch in marginal and upper basal cells (R1 and R) a little beyond origin of Rs; (3) a large patch just beyond the stigma, extending from costa across cells R~, Rs, and R~+s; (4) a largo but ill-defined patch towards the apices of cells M and Cu ; (5) a patch near base of cells Cu and An.
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