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rath(M- long bright yellow pube!«ceiice. In 2 , pubescence more 

 whitisli. Abdomen shining blue-black ; finely punctate; 2iitl seg- 

 ment with two large yelUiw spots ; 3rcl and 4tli each with a pair 

 of narrow, slightly curved, greyish spots placed diagonally from 

 middle of segment nearly to hind corners, their inner ends well 

 separated, tliose on 4th segment generally rather smaller and 

 perpendicidar. Normally the first pair of spots are yellow, the 

 otiiers grey, but the middle pair are sometimes intermediate in 

 colour. Pubescence yellowish-grey and more or less erect on spots 

 and along sides of abdomen; hla(;k and depressed on black pai'ts. 

 Venter mainly yellowish, black at sides and tip. Lcr/s mainly blade ; 

 anterior femora rather broadly, hind femora narrowly, orange. 

 Apical half of anterior tibiae blackish with orange tips, but the 

 black colour sometimes reduced, especially in f , to an irregular, 

 indefinite broad ring beyond middle; hind tibiae distinctly 

 incrassate after the base, nearly basal half and ti[;s narrowly orange. 

 Tarsi yellowish, hind metatarsi distinctly incrassate, black with 

 orange tips; 2nd, 3i"d and 4tli joints rather short, very distinctly 

 dilated in J to nearly double the width of the iiietatarsus,^ 

 snow-white; 2nd and 3rd joints of about equal length ; 5th joint 

 narrow, snow-white. Hind tarsi in 9 with only the metatarsi 

 incrassate. Pubescence of legs mainly yellow ; black on black 

 parts of hind tibise and metatarsi, but on inner side of hind tibiaj 

 yellowish-grey, especially in $ . IVinr/s clear, iriilescent, no 

 trace of iufuscation apically ; slignia varying from pale yellowish 

 to yellowish-brown ; halteres yellowish to orange. 



Lewjth, 5-04 nun. 



Types in Co])enhagen Museum and Wiedemann's collection. 



Described from several of each sex in the Pusa collection, from 

 Pusa, S. iii. 1908, found on gum-saturated earth; 17. iii. 1908, 

 under mango bark; vi. 1916; 9. vii. 1907, on stable wall; 

 14.viii.l907; 17, 19 and 28.x. 1908; U.xii. 1915. AlsoChapra, 

 Bengal (il7«c/iV»Jrie); Bombay. 11. x. 1912; Ceylon; Java. I have 

 seen one 6 from Los lianos, Philippine Is. 



195. Eumerus nepalensis, Brun. 



EiDiieius V('pale7isis, Bninetti, IJec. Ind. 3Ius. ii, p. 70 (1908) ; nee 

 id., op. cit. xi, p. 240 (1916;. 



5 . Head shilling black; eyes sparsely pubescent on lower part 

 only; antenna; orange, 3rd joint large, rounded, upper margin 

 blackish. Thorax dark shining asneous-black, with tawnv-grey 

 puliescttiice on dorsum, and grey pubescence at the sides ; 

 scutellum unicolorons, with soft, rather long yellowish-grey hair, 

 posterior hordt-r with a fiat edge which is serrated above. yU>- 

 domen shining hlack, with two u\al, obli(|ue pale spots on 2nd 

 segment, their ends touching tlie jjosterior border of the se<,'ments 

 near the side margin ; extreme posterior border of segments very 

 narrowly tawny. On the 3rd segment are two smaller and 



