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fore and middle femora with yellowisii pubescence below, liiud 

 pail- very incra^sate, with a tuft of black hairs below towards tip. 

 IVing.s yellowish, a browiiisli spot at base of submarginal cell ; 

 trace of an appendix at lowest point of loop in 8rd vein, anterior 

 cross-vein much beyond middle of discal cell. 



This description is somewiiat a manufactured oue, as Macquart 

 merely distinguishes the species by its difierences from the one 

 preceding it in his book, namely ^josficato : both of his descrip- 

 tions are herein drawn upon, whilst a few other (ai)parently 

 generic) characters appertaining to the head are also added from 

 his figures. 



" East India " (" Indes Orientales "). Type in Paris Museum. 



The species requires definite confirmation as ludian. 



173. Mallota rufipes, Brun. 



Mallota rufipes, Bruiietti, Rec. Ind. Mus. ix, p. 271 (1913). 



d . Bead : frons at vertex one-fifth of full width of head, 

 considerably wider at level of antennae, black, a little shining, 

 with some black hairs, which apparently do not continue as far 

 as the antennae ; ocelli at vertex on the barely perceptibly raised 

 surface. Face moderately produced, wholly black, bare but for a 

 little whitish-yellow pubescence. Antennae bright yellowish- 

 brown, on a distinct shining black prominence, the tip of which 

 is bright yellowish-brown ; 8rd joint grey-dusted, arista bright 

 yellowisli-browji, bare. Tltorax wholly dull black, with thick, 

 loug black pubescence ; scutellum dull reddish-brown with thick 

 black pubescence. Abdomen rather curved, dull black, with 

 thick black pubescence ; apical |)art of 4th segment and whole 

 of 5th with a little grey tomentum. A bunch of very bright 

 orange-yellow hairs towards sides of 2nd segment. Venter dull 

 black, pubescent. Legs ; coxae and about basal half of femora 

 black, with black pubescence ; rest of legs bright reddish-orange, 

 with thick dense concolorous pubescence. Hind femora almost 

 straight, considerably deepened, with numerous small spines 

 below towards tip ; hind tibite distinctly but not greatlj^ curved, 

 considerably flattened and moderately deepened. Pulvilli orange, 

 claws orange on basal half, remainder black. Wiw/s pale yellow- 

 ish-grey ; apical half a little infuscated, embracing loop of 3rd 

 longitudinal vein ; marginal cell obviously but not widely open ; 

 anterior cross-vein exactly at middle of discal cell, slightly 

 sloping ; anal vein continued straight almost to wing-border. 

 Halteres dull brownish-yellow. 



Lenf/th, 12 mm. 



Described from a single d from Singla, Darjiling District. 



The tt/pe (in the Indian Museum) has been preserved in spirit, 

 and therefore the colours may be brighter in life than herein 

 described. 



