208 STRPIIID.T. 



wholly with orange-yellow toineutuin and pale yellow pubescence. 

 Tliorcuv bright yellow with three longitudiual stripes as in henga- 

 hnsis ; whole dorsal surface with short dense yellow pubescence. 

 Pleurje with yellow totuentum iu front aud with hinder part ash- 

 grey ; a bunch of long yellow pubescence behind shoulders, 

 extending downwards over niesopleui-a. Scutelluin orange-yellow 

 with dense yellow pubescence. Abdomen longer and more conical 

 in c? than $ ; 1st segment mainly black, orange-yellow to\^•ards 

 sides ; rest of abdomen best described as moderately shining 

 black ; on '2nd segment, a little above centre, a pair of large 

 oblong orange-yellow spots, which are narrowly separated by the 

 median intervening space, their inner ends barely narrowed, 

 extending in their full breadth to side margins of segment; 

 width of remaining black hind margin varying but always fairly 

 broad ; 3rd segment with a broad basal yellow band occupying 

 about half the segment; in J this band is sometimes indefinite, 

 and the segment then is best described as black, with anterior 

 corners irregularly and indefinitely orange; 4th segment much 

 more elongate in J than in $ , moderately shining black, base 

 and anterior corners dusted with yellowish-grey to a varying 

 extent. Genitalia shining black. Venter with ba^al half gene- 

 rally yellowish, apical half nearly black. Pubescence yellow and 

 black according to ground-colour. Legs * moderately shining 

 black ; coxa> grey-dusted with black pubescence : tips of femora 

 narrowly brownish-orange ; fore tibiae on more or less the basal 

 third or half, niiddle pair on more than basal half, hind pair 

 broadly at base, brownish-orange. Anterior femora with rather 

 short black pubescence on upper and inner sides ; outer side nearly 

 bare, but a fringe of long black hairs on lower part of outer side ; 

 under side with long, dense, very bright yellow or orange-yellow 

 pubescence. Hind femora on upper side w]th sparse sliort black 

 pubescence ; outer side with dense long yellow pubescence ; lower 

 and inner sides with very dense black long pubescence. Pubescence 

 on anterior tibise generally black on inner and front sides, and 

 yellow on outer and hinder sides ; hind tibiae with fairly long 

 black or blackish-brown pubescence, very long and dense on outer 

 side in S . Wings pale yellowish-grey ; squamse, fringe and 

 halteres brownish-yellow. 



Length, 15-18 mm. 



Desci'ibed from a cS and $ in the Indian IVIuseum, the J from 

 Mergui, Burma, the $ without record of locality. Whether 

 I oi iginally identified it correctly as Doleschall's insignis or not, at 

 anv rate the species here described is certainly synonymous with 

 Walker's species of that name, which moreover takes precedence. 

 I now think both forms are probably identical. A § from Borneo 

 and one from Singapore, 19. i. 1896, below 400 ft. {&'. S. tlower). 



* Tlie description of the legs nuist be accepted with caution as the specimens 

 are none of them in good condition. 



