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brown tlirougli the dense pale pubescence. Thorax in front and 

 at sides with longer golden-yellow hairs ; in front of and around 

 wiiig-base with black bristles. Abdomen at the base Mith thick 

 and long golden-j-ellow hair; 2nd seguient on fore border with a 

 whitish-yellow cross-band. Head reddish brown, epistome paler,, 

 frons darker; pubescence short, bright golden yellow; frons 

 black on hinder part. Antennae brown, 3rd joint very elongate,, 

 gradually tapering and produced into the style. Legs reddish 

 yellow, knees rather darker ; tarsi brown ; femora with shining 

 scales ; all bristles black ; pulvilli rudimentary. Wings sooty 

 brown, darker on front margin and more reddish, with eiglit 

 black spots : two at base of outer marginal (cubital) cell, 

 two at base of 2nd posterior cell, one eacli at bases of 3rd and 

 4th posterior cells, one on outer side of diseal cell, and the last 

 one suffusing the anterior cross-vein. Cross-vein joining upper 

 branch of cubital vein to subcostal vein, with a recurrent 

 appendix ; only three submargiiial cells. Length 1 lines. Two 

 speciiuens ; Ceylon." 



The above is Schiner's description ; he compares it vvitli 

 E. alexon, Walk., and inmctulata, Macq. 



Tijpe presumably in the Vienna Museum. 



156. Exoprosopa iiiveiventris, Brun. 



Kvoprosopa niveivetit.ris, Brun. Rec. Ind. Mus. iii, p. 214 (1909). 



$ . Head : frons at widest (level of antennas) one-third the 

 width of the head, narrowing at vertex to half this width ; dark 

 brown, covered with close, hght brownish-orange scales, which 

 become lighter coloured below the antennae ; the whole frons 

 covered with short black hairs ; ocelli small, black, close together, 

 placed on a small tubercle; mouth-border yellow, proboscis dark 

 brown. Antennae black; 1st and 2nd joints thickly beset 

 above and at the sides with strong black bristles ; 3rd joint 

 rather long, absolutely bare, with a very distinct style, which 

 itself bears a microscopic but distinct apical joint. Prom the base 

 of the antennae obliquely to the edge of the eye there is on each 

 side of the frons a narrow groove, quite destitute of scales or 

 pubescence. Back of head broad behind the eye, with minute 

 black pubescence, and covered towards the sides with solt 

 yellowish-white scales, which may perhaps extend over nearly all 

 the back of the head in some specimens; a fringe of short, br'io-ht 

 orange-yellow hairs encircles the back part of the head, meeting 

 the dense pubescence of the thorax. Thora.r dull black, with 

 some short black hairs towards anterior border, and in front of 

 the scutellum ; front part of thorax (not extending to the d(n"sum 

 proper) covered densely with narrow, elongate, bright yellow 

 scales, which also extend to the sides of the thorax, and form fan- 

 shaped bunches below each shoulder and behind each wing ;^^ 

 these scales become almost thick pubescence at the sides of the 

 dorsum, being especially thick above each wing. The true dorsum- 



