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running obliquely outAvards so as almost to cut off' a basal angle ; 

 111 some specimens the yellow longitudinal stripes become obsolete 

 before reaching the hind margin of the segment, and in others 

 apparently do not run more than half-way; 5th segment in the 

 6 wholly metallic black ; genitalia small, metallic black ; 5th 

 segment in the $ metallic black, with a somewhat confused 

 repetition in miniature of the yellow markings on the 4th seg- 

 ment. Lerjs yellow; coxaj blackish-brown, and a band on the 

 outer half of the posterior femora, not reaching to the tips, 

 and the distal third of the posterior tibiae, brown ; there 

 is sometimes an indication of an incomplete brownish ring round 

 the middle of the posterior tibias. Wings in the J sharper at the 



Fig. 24. — Baccha imlch-ifrons, Aust., wing. 



tip and with the terminal portion of the 4th longitudinal vein, 

 closing the 1st posterior cell, more oblique than in the $ ; suffused 

 with brown, usually lighter at the base on the inner side, darker 

 in the costal and subcostal cells and in the middle, and with the 

 stigma and an elongated and not sharply defined spot at the tip, 

 above the 3rd vein, dark brown ; wings in the $ hyaline, the sub- 

 costal cell brown, and the stigma and an elongated spot at the tip 

 above the 3rd vein, as in the 6 , dark brown ; 3rd longitudinal 

 vein gently curved ; alulae of full size. 



'^ Length, S 10-11| ; $ 9|-10| milHm." 



Bhowali, W. Himalayas, 5700 ft., vii. 1909. (L)i?iis) ; Darjiling 

 District, 5000 ft., iv.,v.":L917 (Kemj)); Pusa, Bengal, 10. li. 1906 

 (Mism); 3. viii. 1909; Mormugao, Goa, ix. 1906 (Kemp); Hot 

 AVells, Trincomalee, 2.x\.18d0 {ttq^e J oi ajncemtata), 13.iii.]S92 

 {ty^^e $ of apicenotata); Heneratagoda and Bentora (both Cevlon, 

 E. E. Green); Cherrapunji, Assam, 4400 ft., 2-S. x. l^\4{Kemp); 

 jungle at base of Dawna Hills, l.iii. 1908 (Annandale). The 

 species is recorded by de Meijere from Singapore and Java, and 

 the British Museum has specimens from various localities in 

 Ceylon collected by Col. Yerbury in March, June, July and 

 JN'ovember. 



Austen notes a 6 and $ which may be a variety of this 

 species. 



100. Baccha triangulifera, Aust. 



Baccha trianr/ulifera, Austen, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend. p. 138, 



pi. iv, fig. 5 (full ins. col., J) (1893). 

 Baccha eletjans, Bnmetti, Eec.lnd. Mus. xi, p. 220 (1915). 



(5 $. Head: " Front, face and cheeks yellow, with short, pale 

 yellow pile ; a narrow dark brown median stripe extending a little 



