218 NOTES ON .SOMK UIPTERA FOUND IN ASSOCIATION WITH TERMITES, 



piipatf in (crevices in tlie adjacent bark. The duration of tbe pupal stage is 

 about 12 days. 



c?. Length to apex of abdomen, (i.25 mm.; to apex of wing:s, 8.00 mm.; 

 wing's, 8.00 mm. 



Colour: Eyes maroon; antennae ochraceous tawny, shading to blackish on 

 the third segment; thorax dusky blue with greenish reflections; abdomen dark 

 bronze green; legs bronze green, liasal half of first and second tibiae ocliraceous 

 tawny; halteres creamy; wings hyaline, slightly iridescent, veins brown, ptero- 

 stigma yellow. 



Head (Fig. 5) wide (2.70 mui.J, wider tiian thorax; eyes holoplic, tiudy 

 faceted, clothed with short brown pile (silvery in some lights) ; clypeus, epis- 

 tome, and genae blue, not pubescent; rest of front aspect of head denseh 

 clothed with silvery pile and dust; antennae (Fig. 7, ?) porrect. inserted about 

 the middle of the head in protile, first joint about as long as, but narrower than 

 second, both clothed with short, black hairs above, third large, compressed 

 laterally, clothed with minute hairs, arista long, black, three-jointed, first two 

 joints very short, the first shortest, third minutely feathered to the tip. 



Thorax wide (2.35 mm.), a little narrower than bead, clothed with short 

 black hairs above (silvery in some lights) and more densely witli longer hairs 

 on the sides; scutellum large, semicircular behind, posterior margrin with narrt)w 

 upturned edge and fringed with many moderately large black bail's. 



Winys (Fig. 8. ?) without spurious vein, costal border fringed with very 

 short stout black hairs, costal vein temiinating at apex of wing at junction of 

 third long vein, squamae moderately large, fringed with long slender pale hail's. 



Legs moderately stout, femora of hind legs thickened, bearing a notched 

 process near the apex, apparently similar to the female (Fig. 9), all joints 

 densely clothed with stout black, white or golden hairs, pulvelli large, pale, 

 feathered. 



Abdomen wider than thorax, with four visible segments densely clothed witli 

 short black hairs (silvery in some lights), hypopygium concealed. 



?. Length to apex of abdomen, 5.25 — ().25 mm.; to apex of wings, 7.0 — 

 8.25 mm. 



Colour similar to male, or with scutellum dark bronze green and abdomen 

 of same colour as thorax; antennae lilack; le.gs unifoi-mly dark blue; lialteres 

 yellow ochre, frons and clypi'us dark bronze green. 



Head (Fig. 6) : Frons wide at vertex, one-sixth the width of head, widening 

 anteriorly to one-third the width of head at antennae, clothed with fine grey 

 or white hairs, densest anteriorly, face and genae as in male. Ocellar triangle 

 large, prominent ; ocelli brown ; eyes less pulose than in male, pile silvery. 



Thora^r as in male, but clothing shorter and scantier, very few long hairs 

 fringing scutellum. 



Wings (Fig. 8) as in male 



Legs (Fig. 9) as described in male, except in colour. 



Abdomen wider than thorax, with five visible segments; genitalia prominent. 



Larva. 



Length, 12.0 mm.; width, ,3.0 mm. 



Colour: Cinnamon brown aliove, tawny olive below. 



The whole upper surface dull, deeply and irregularly ribbed transversely, 

 clothed with very short stout hairs. Head withdrawn into second segment; 

 anterior end truncate in front and fringed with several rows of short stout 



