from the Philippine Islands. 237 



base; upper thoracic and scutellar spines with yellowish-ivhite 

 rings; body black, abdomen ivith hoary bands and spots; wings 

 dark brown, hyaline at base and with three interrupted hyaline 

 crossbands. Length 5 — 6 mm. ; breadth from eye to eye (of my 

 single specimen) 5 — 6 mm. 



Head pale yellow, ocular peduncles with a brown line; antennae 

 brown, paler on the underside ; the bristle-bearing frontal spines unu- 

 sually strong, and nearly as long as the distance from their base to 

 the ocelli. Thorax dark brown, with some gray marks on the shoulders 

 and on the suture, each side; brownish-pollinose in the middle, with 

 two indistinct grayish stripes; the spines above the root of the wings 

 unusually long (at least as long as those on the scutellum), curved, 

 brown, with a pale ring in the middle; scutellar spines long, slightly 

 curved, with a pale ring before the tip, which is dark. Abdomen 

 brownish-black, with crossbands of grayish pollen on the first three 

 segments; the two last segments slightly grayish-pollinose; some other 

 gray spots on the sides of the segments. Legs brownish-yellow, varie- 

 gated with brown; front coxae and femora brown, the latter with a 

 yellow ring before the tip; middle and hind femora brownish-yellow, 

 with a brown ring in the middle and the distal third brown; (the 

 extreme base also has a little brown) ; front and middle tibiae yello- 

 wish-brown; hind tibiae brown, with a yellow ring a little beyond the 

 middle; tarsi brownish. Halteres yellowish. Wings dark brown; the 

 base hyaline nearly as far as the tip of the anal cell; the first hyaline 



Fig. 13. 



Teleopsis selecta. 



band is interrupted by the breadth of the discal cell; the second, by 

 the breadth of the first posterior cell; the third band, placed before 

 the apex, just beyond the tip of the second vein, is only slightly inter- 

 rupted on the third vein. — A single specimen. 



5. I) i op sis sub not at a Westw. Cabinet of Orient. Entom. 

 Tab. XVIII, f. 2 (Philippines)! 



Synon. Z>. argentifera Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1874, p. 112 

 (Celebes)! 

 Two specimens. 



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