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ond, arista thickened on the basal half, the penultimate joint slightly 

 longer than wide; head at the lower part nearly as long as at base of an 

 tennae, eyes bare, ocellar bristles strong, directed obliquely forward. 

 Thorax gray pruinose and with four black vittae, four pairs of postsutural 

 dorsocentral bristles, three sternopleurals in a longitudinal row. Abdomen 

 polished, the broad bases of the second, third and fourth segments gray 

 pruinose, no discal bristles on the first three segments. Middle tibiae 

 bearing three bristles on the outer-anterior side near the middle, the hind 

 ones ciliate on the outer-anterior side and with two longer bristles inter 

 mixed, pulvilli greatly elongated. Wings hyaline, third vein bearing six 

 bristles near the base, bend of fourth vein with a distinct stump of a vein. 

 Length 10 mm. 



West Australia. A male specimen bred from a bagworm. 



Family ORTALID^. 

 Ortalis comperei, n. sp. 



Head narrow, much higher than wide, whitish-yellow, center of occiput, 

 a large spot on each cheek and a broad stripe in middle of face extending 

 its entire length and crossing the clypeus, black, frontal vitta very nar 

 row, yellow; front much longer than wide, narrowing towards the vertex, 

 three pairs of frontal bristles and two rows of hairs between the two rows ; 

 antennae one-half as long as the face, orange-yellow, the third joint 

 slightly longer than the second, arista long-plumose; proboscis and palpi 

 dark brown. Body short and broad, bluish green, rather thinly gray prui 

 nose, mesonotum bearing one pair of acrostichal bristles, two dorsocen- 

 trals, one supra-alar and two humeral, scutellum bearing six bristles. 

 Wings whitish hyaline, costa broadly bordered with a brown stripe from 

 base to apex of the auxiliary vein where the stripe narrows and in the first 

 basal cell terminates in a broad brown cross-band which passes over the 

 small and posterior cross-veins ; the posterior basal portion of the wing 

 is marked with several brown spots, of which one is in the second basal 

 cell, two in the discal, two in the anal, one large and five small ones in 

 the third posterior, four in the axillary and one on the alula; in the 

 apical portion of the wing beyond the brown cross-band are two more 

 brown cross-bands, the first of which begins on the costa just before apex 

 of the second vein and reaches a point half way across the first posterior 

 cell, the second fills the apex of the submarginal cell and extends to the hind 

 margin of the wing at the middle of the hind edge of the second posterior 

 cell; small cross-vein at three-fourths of the length of the discal cell; 

 lower outer angle of the anal cell obtuse. Legs black, the front ones ex 

 cept apices of their tibiae, the middle tibise and their tarsi, also the hind 

 tarsi yellowish, the last two tarsal joints brown. Length 4 mm. 



Bangalore, India. Two male specimens bred from guavas by 

 Mr. George Compere, for whom this fine species is named. 



