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both in the British Museum, as well as AValker's type $ , all agree 

 exactly with tlie 6 and 5 described by me. //. alhiceps, van der 

 Wulp, according to two 2 $ so mimed in the British Museum, 

 may be identical, the only differeiici^s being that the spots on the 

 2nd abdominal segment are broader, more quadrate and rather 

 more widely separated, and that t!ie insects are smaller. 



lO.j. Helopliilus beugalensis, Wied. (PI. V, figs. 1-3.) 



UrMalis benffaleiisis,Wiei.em-dnu, Zool. Mag', i, p. 3 (1819); id., 

 Auss. Zweiti. ii, p. 167 (1830) ; de Mefiere, Tijd. v. Ent. li, 

 p. 2.33, pl. vii, tio-s. 13, 14, legs (1908); Brunetti, Kec. Ind. Mas. 

 ii, p. (J9 (1908) fi, pl. xii, figs. 1, 2, 3, J $ abdoinon (1907). 



Eumerosi/rphus indiamis, liigot, Ann. Soc. J<]nt. France, (6) ii, 

 Bull. p. cxxviii (1882). 



6 $. Head: eyes in S contiguous for less than one-third the 

 distance from vertex to Irons (about 5 or G facets); upper facets 

 distinctly larger than lower ones ; vertical triangle elongate, 

 shining black above; a little yellowish-grey tomentum on lower 

 part, the whole with black pubescence. Frons and face wholly 

 covered with yellow tomentum and concolorous pubescence ; 

 median black stripe on latter narrow; central bump small ; tip of 

 small antennal prominence shining dark brown. Antennal 1st 

 and 2nd joints black ; 3rd dark brown with bare brown arista. 

 Proboscis black. Occiput black, side margins and lower side uith 

 white tomentum and white pubescence ; yellowish tomentum and 

 pubescence on vertex. In $ , frous one-sixth width oi head at 

 vertex, w idening gratiually to 1 h times as wide at level of antennae, 

 covered w^itb yellow tomentum and pubescence, but on the vertex 

 tlie tomentum is more dark greyish and the pubescence black. 

 Antennal prominence and antenna) shining orange-brown to 

 blackish, with a little microscopic grey dust on 3rd joint. 

 Thorax bright yellow^ with three longitudinal black stripes ; the 

 median stripeslightly wider than the others, extendiiigfrom anterior 

 border nearly or quite to iiind margin, not narrowed in front 

 but generally narrowed i)ehind to a point ; outer stripes rather 

 narrowly separated from the median one but narrower in front 

 aTid behind, barely attaining anterior and hind margins. Pleurae 

 yellowish-grey, slightly darker behind. Scutellum translucent 

 yellow, a litrle darker at base. Whole dorsum, pleura; and 

 scutellum with soft yellow pubescence. Abdomen: 1st segment 

 black, remainder orange-yellow ; 2nd segment with basal and 

 hind marginal black bands, broader in middle (former not attain- 

 ing, latter attaining, the side margins), joined by a median black 

 band of varying width which may sometimes be i)ractically absent; 

 hind marginal band sometimes replaced by m(!rely a deeper orange 

 than the ground-colour. 3rd segment with a depressed black tri- 

 angular spot oil hind margin, reaching side margins and olten 

 extended fornard in c(Mitre as a fine line as far as middle of 

 segment. Puljescence on first three segments very short and 



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