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SYBPHIDtE. 



towards sides of anterior margins of 3rd and 4th segments ; 5th 

 segment nearly all white-haired; (these spots are hardly apparent 

 in the Indian specimen). Genitalia rather small, knob-like, dark 

 brown. Venter black. Legs yellow ; basal half of anterior 

 femora, rather more than half of hind pair, black or blackish- 

 brown, rather shining ; apical half of hind tibiae brownish, tips 

 of anterior tibiae and all tarsi wholly brownish ; hind metatarsi 

 distinctly incrassated. Legs in 5 sometimes darker. Wings 

 pale brownish ; halteres pale yellow. 



Length, 5 ram. 



Eedescribed from a S from Batavia (January, Jacobson), named 

 and sent by Dr. de Meijere to the Indian Museum, and from a 

 second c? in the same collection from Bijraui, Naini Tal District, 

 base of W. Himalayas, 19, iii. 1910. De Meijere's notes in 1908 

 are incorporated, his original description not being accessible in 

 India. I'roni these notes it may,be inferred that the white hair- 

 spots on the abdomen attain the middle line in the $ , from which 

 sex, spparently, the species was originally described. 



27. Paragus rufiventris, Bnm. 



Pa7-af/m rufiventris, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. viii, p. 157 (1913). 



c? . ZTertcZ : frons shining black, almost bare ; eyes subcontiguous 

 only and for a very short distance ; hind orbit of eyes with a 

 fringe of white hairs, weakest behind the vertex, where the hair is 

 darker ; face very pale lemon-yellow, shining, bare, becoming 

 nearly whitish towards the mouth, above which is a little white 

 hair on each side : a black shining median line on the face from 

 immediately below root of antennae to mouth ; middle part of face 

 in profile a little protuberant. Antenna? blackish-brown ; 3rd 

 joint more or less reddish-brown below at base, arista dorsal, 

 placed at about one-third the length of the joint ; proboscis 

 shining blackish-brown. Thorax shining black, punctate, 

 covered rather closely with fine black pubescence, which clothes 

 both the dorsum and the scutellum ; the latter is concolorous. 

 Sides of thorax black, a little conspicuous white hair in front of 

 the wing-roots. Abdomen blue-black, shining, about the hind 

 half (more or less) bright reddish-brown ; whole surface of 

 abdomen with white hairs, which extend over the sides ; tip of 

 abdomen sometimes black, or the reddish part may be black at the 

 sides ; belly generally a replica of the upper side. Legs : coxae 

 and basal half of femora black, shining, apical part of femora 

 brownish-yellow, shading into the lemon-yellow tip, this colour 

 extending over about the basal third of the tibiae, remainder 

 brownish-yellow ; tarsi brownish-yellow, a little golden-yellow 

 pubescence below the hind pair. Wings clear, venation normal ; 

 halteres pale yellowish-white. 



Length, 5 mm. 



Described from five S 6 in the Indian Museum, Mangaldai, 

 Assam-Bhutan Frontier, 1 or 2A.\dll,tijjje [Kevij)); Sadiya, Assam, 



