136 LEPTIJ)^. 



lights, steely asneous, highly sliining, m itli a dull jet-black, 

 nioderatelv wide ])osterior border; the whole abdomen moderately 

 thickly clothed with soft black hairs. Legs bhickish browu ; base 

 of hind femora, tips of four anterior femoi'a, and the anterior tibiae 

 wiiolly, pale tawny brown. Wings pale grey; stigma brown, but 

 ill-defined, elongated and spread over both mediastinal and sub- 

 costal cells, and from this stigmatic spot a brownish-grey band 

 proceeds posteriorly, rapidly narrowing, and disappears on reach- 

 ing the outer cross-vein, thus forming what at a short distance 

 appears to be a brown triangular cloud, darkest in front. The 

 lower branch of the upper fork of the 4th longitudinal vein issues 

 from below the middle of the outer side of the discal cell, which 

 latter has the appearance of having the upper outer corner cut oif 

 by the upper branch. 



Length, 10 mm. 



Described from one 6 iu the Indian Museum from Gowchar, 

 Nepal. 



97. Chrysopilus cochinensis, sp. nov. 



5 . Head with eyes separated by a very broad frons occupying 

 fully half the widtli of the head, the upper red-brown and lower 

 black facets well demarcated, but of uniform size ; frons mainly 

 of uniform width, except lor the widening towards vertex, dark 

 brownish yellow, ■svith darker patches ; vertex scarcely elevated, 

 ocelli yellowish, prominent;* frons slightly but suddenly 

 depressed just above antennjB, the latter blackish, 2ud joint 

 reddish brown, 3rd joint with a little grey pubescence, arista 

 black ; face and clieeks dusted with whitish grey ; epistoma brown, 

 covered with whitish dust ; proboscis brownish yellow; palpi dark 

 brown, bristly ; occiput dark brownish yellow, with sparse short 

 stiff black pubescence ; underside of head with a little black 

 softer hair. Thorax black, dorsum wirh short adpressed bright 

 yellow scale-like pubescence ; sides bi'ownish grej^, with a little 

 yellow pubescence here and there ; scutellum brownish grey, with 

 yellow pubescence as on the thoracic dorsum. Abdomen dull 

 blackish, barely shining ; 1st segment wholly, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th 

 segments on about basal third, with soft white pubescence; black 

 pubescence on the remainder ; the 5th, 6th, and 7th segments are 

 suddenly narrowed, their hind borders slightly wider than else- 

 Avhere, but the broadest part of the 5th segment is barely half as 

 wide as the 4tli segment at base; ovipositor elongate, black; 

 venter black, with a few si-attered hairs. Legs blackish grey, with 

 a little black pubescence ; femora brownish yellow, tips of hind 

 pair slightly blackish; tibia? and tarsi dirty yellow, apical half of 

 latter blackish. Wings very pale yellowish grey, almost clear; 



* In the unique type only two ocelli are obvious, tlie lower one being 

 hidden, except for its extreme upper rim, by an ajiparently slight distortion 

 of the frons. 



