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yellowish i)nbeseeiK-e. Scutelluiu wholly rather dull yellow, with 

 all-yeUowish pubescence. Abdomen witli yellow spots as in 

 v. fascinta, Macq., except that the 5th segnient is wholly orange 

 except at middle ot" base. Venter yellowish, an indistinct black 

 mark about middle of each segment. Lec/s, except the black coxae, 

 wliolly yellow. Wings with 3rd longitudinal vein barely dipped. 



Length, 8 mm. 



Described from a single cT from Nasratabad (Consulate Garden), 

 Seistan. 



T2/2ie in Indian Museum. 



47. Dideoides kempi, sp. nov, (PL II, fig. 9.) 



cS 2 • JJi^cd '■ eyes with dense brownish-yellow pubescence, 

 contiguous for a little greater distance than lengtli of vertical 

 triangle, which is black, with black hairs; frons, face and cheeks 

 with close orange-yellow pile, wliich is a little more orange on 

 former ; pubescence of frons black, of face pale yellow, very 

 inconspicuous; facial bump orange-yellow, bare ; mouth-border 

 barely darker ; proboscis black. Antennjc black, under side of 1st 

 and 2nd, and base of <3rd joint below, dull orange. Occiput 

 yellowish-grey, with yellow fringe, with which a few black hairs 

 are intermixed behind vertex. In 5 , frons aiul face widening 

 rapidly downwards, at level of antennte about one-third width of 

 head, a median, rather wide dark bi'own stripe froin vertex 

 (where it reaches from eye to eye) to antenna?, tiie frons on each 

 side of it dusted with yellowish-grey, all covered with rather dense 

 black pubescence. Thorax greenish-ajneous {tgpe) or yellowish- 

 a!neous ; two yellowish-grey median stripes from anterior border 

 to about middle of dorsum ; side margins rather orange, but not 

 conspicuously so ; sides of thorax yellow-dusted ; under side of 

 thorax grey-dusted. Scutellum translucent oran.iie-yellow. 

 Pubescence of dorsum of thorax and on pleurie bright yellow, 

 of side margins and around wing-base orange; of scutellum 

 yellow "With some brown hairs intermixed. AU/omen very 

 distinctly inarginate ; 1st segment aeneous with yellowish-grey 

 pubescence, remainder barely shining indigo, hind margins of 

 segments broadly shining deep blue. A pair of elongate-triangnlur 

 yellow spots lying across middle of 2nd segment, their bases 

 towards but (juite clear of side margins, their rounded apices just 

 separated from one another in middle of segment ; a narrow , 

 slightly curved yellow band just before middle of 3rd segment, 

 well clear of anterior margin and distinctly clear of side margins. 

 Pubescence of abdomen very short, bristly and black, making the 

 surface appear at first sight almost pun<;tate, excei)t on the yellow 

 spots; 2nd segment with sparse yellowish pubescence over whole 

 siu'face except behind tlie yellow spots. Pubescence brownish- 

 yellow on yellow band on 3rd segment. Venter shining black, 

 a pair of large pale yt-liow spots on 2nd segment and a pale yellow 

 broad basal band on ."(rd segment. />!'//••<■: coxie, nearly all iho 



