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129. Oncodes octomaculatus, Bnm. (PI. II, figs. 28, 29.) 



Oncodes octotnaculafus, Brimetti, Rec. lud. Mus. vii, p. 476 (1912). 



cJ . Head with eyes very dark reddish brown, bare; vertex and 

 back of head blackish ; two ocelh present. Antennae noi'mal 

 (apparently, as they are not properly visible), terminated by along 

 arista, which is slightly thickened at the base, and is thinnest in 

 the middle, the tip provided with two minute stiff hairs. Thorax 

 brownish yellow, with three dorsal clear-cut black stripes of 

 moderate and equal width, the median one attaining the anterior 

 margin, the outer ones considerably foreshortened ; hinder part of 

 dorsum all blackish, the colour extending to the scutellum ; the 

 metauotum brownish yellow ; a short black streak (which in one 

 specimen forms nearly a complete circle) on each side in front, 

 below each shoulder, sometimes joined to the tips of the outer 

 dorsal stripe ; a small blackish mark afc base of wing, and the 

 underside of the thorax mainly blackish. Thorax with a little 

 light yellow pubescence generally distributed both on dorsum and 

 sides. Abdomen mainly blackish, with light yellowish pubescence ; 



Fig. I'd. — Oncodes octo/aacidatus, Bnin., wing. 



hind margins of segments narrowly pale yellowish white, the 

 colour widest on 5th segment ; 2nd segment with two large oval 

 greyish-white spots nearly filling the dorsum, but quite clear of 

 tlie borders in all directions ; 3rd and 4th segments each with a 

 pair of moderate-sized brownish-yellow spots, one on each side of 

 the middle ; 5th segment with an elongated similarly coloured 

 spot, clear of the borders in all directions, and nearly filling the 

 segment ; Gth segment much smaller, practically a replica of 

 the 5th ; lateral margins of each segment occupied b}^ a shining 

 black elongate spot, which does not overlap the pale hind niargin. 

 Venter pale yellowish ; sometimes (in one example) a black spot 

 towards the lateral margins as on dorsal surface. Legs brownish 

 yellow ; hind ])air with coxa? more or less at base, femora at base 

 and a broad subapical band, and tibise and tarsi almost wholly, 

 brown or blackish. Winris yellowish grey ; venation normal ; 

 squama) dirty grey, shortly and closely pubescent, and of the 

 normal enormous size. 



Length, 4 mm. 



Described from two S S in the Indian Museum, from Igat- 

 puri, Western Ghats, Bombay Presidency, 20. xi. 1909 {Annan- 

 dale); Nasik, Bombay Pres., iii. 1911. 



