116 LEPXIB-E. 



beliincl the sides of the eyes ; palpi bhick, haiiy below. Thorax 

 aeneous black above, the colour not attaining anterior margin 

 except as a wide stripe in the centre, but extending to both 

 wings and to the scutellum ; humeral calli tawny, with a whitish- 

 grey tomeutose spot, contiguous to each, on the anterior border ; 

 a bluish grey spot in front of each wing, placed almost on the 

 dorsum ; sides of thorax yellowish grey posteriorly ; mesoplenrce 

 bluish gvey ; scutellum yellow, base blackish ; metanotum blackish 

 grey. Abdomen brownish yellow, with a black dorsal stripe on 

 lirst three segments, which spreads out over the greater part of 

 the 4th and 5th segments ; tip of abdomen yellow, sides with a 

 blackish line and a fringe of jjlack hairs mixed with some paler 

 ones ; venter yellowish ; some sliort pale hairs over the dorsal 

 surface of the abdomen. Legs : fox'e coxie yellowish with bluish- 

 grey reflections, posterior coxcTJ blackish, all of them black at the 

 junction with the femora, which are yellow, Avith the tips narrowly 

 black, the middle pair having a very small black streak on the 

 underside near the base, and the hind pair a wide black ring in 

 the middle ; remainder of legs black, but middle tibise dark 

 brownish yellow. Wings pale grey, rather strongly iridescent, 

 with a rather dark brown middle stripe from the centre of the 

 costa, narrowing posteriorly and reacliiug hind margin of wing at 

 tip of anal cell ; distal part of wing dark grey down to the tiftli 

 posterior cell, the centre of which is pale grey (reaching to the 

 border), but a rather wide pale grey space remains between tlie 

 dark brown stripe and the distal dark grey part, this clearer part 

 ceasing at the fifth posterior cell ; fifth longitudinal A^ein dark 

 brown suffused ; upper transverse vein placed just before one- 

 third of the discal cell ; halteres yellowish, knob black. 



Length, 8 mm. 



I describe under the above specific name a $ specimen (now in 

 the Indian Museum collection) captured from the base of tlie 

 Dawna Hills, Amherst District, Lower Burma, 1. iii. 1903 (Annan- 

 dale), Avhich I at first thought was a new species. It dift'ers from 

 limbata, O.-S., by the presence of the clearer space in the dark 

 distal part of the wing and by the hind femoral band being in the 

 middle, not near the tip, other minor differences liardls'' being 

 specific. My augmented description may enable others to identify 

 it definitely either as itmhata or as new. 



77. Atricliops intermedia, Brun. (PI. II, figs. 11, 12.) 



Atherix intermedia, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. iii, p. 211 (1909). 



(5 . This species closely resembles both limhata, O.-S., and 

 calopa, Brun., and takes an intermediate position between the 

 two. 



From Umhata it is distinguished by an all-black thorax, with a 

 little whitish shimmer on the humeral parts, round the edges of 

 the dorsum, and in front of the insertion of the wings ; also by 

 an oblique whitish stripe on the sides of the thorax, wliiclj 

 otherwise are wholly black, as is also the scutellum. The legs are- 



