EUMERUS. 



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orange pubescence at basal corners oE 2nd segment. Tip o£ 

 abdomen black-haired ; venter bl ickisb with a little sparse yellow 

 pubesceuce. Le'js black; basal half and tips of aarerior tibi;e, 

 and the anterior tarsi, brownish-yellow ; hind legs black, except 

 knees, tips of tibiie and apical part of each tarsal joint. Alllegs 

 with yellow pubescence, rather long on femora and tibite, especially 

 on hinder and under sides ; hind tarsi considerably incrassate, 

 with bright reddish-brown pubescence. Wmjs grey, stigma small, 

 blackish; anterior cross-vein at two-thirds of discal cell, very 

 sloping ; halteres yellow. 



Length, 12 mm. 



Described from a c? in the Indian Museum, in inferior con- 

 dition through immersion in spirit, from Singla, Darjiling Dis- 

 trict. A species conspicuous by its densely yellow-haired 

 scutellum and its large size. 



197. Eumerus pulcherrimus, Brun. 



Eumerus imlcherrimus, Brunetti, R%a. lud. Mas. xi, p. 243 (1915). 



$ . Head : frons one-sixth width of head, aeneous, darker on 

 vertex, with a slightly greenish tinge in front, minutely punctured. 

 Ocelli suiall, red, well separated from one another and from eye- 

 margins. At each side of the frons, along the eye-margins, from 

 the lowest ocellus to just above the antennae, a little yellowish poUi- 

 nose dusting, which becomes white at level of antennae, where it 

 merges in the white-dusted face covered with white liair. Frons 

 cove'red with a moderate amount of light yellowish hair, which on 

 the vertex is replaced by dark l)rown hair. Posterior orbits of 

 eyes rather narrow, yellow-dusted, with bright yellow hair behind 

 vertex. Eyes with dense short brownish-grey hairs. Antennae 

 black, with a little hoary bloom, if viewed from in front; 3rd joint 

 rather more squarish than in rufoscuteUaius ; arista black, a little 

 pale at base. Proboscis dark brown. Thorax a-neous, with 

 brilliant cupreous and violet reflections; a little (but con- 

 spicuously) hoary below the anterior margin in front. Three 

 very narrow wliite dorsal lines from anterior margin, not reaching 

 posterior margin ; a transverse narrow whitish line on suture. 

 Sides below shoulders yellowish-white with sliaggy yellowish- 

 white hair. Humeral calli small, a-neous ; remainder of thorax 

 below dorsum, grey. Scutellum very conspicuous, briglit shining 

 cupreous with dense long reddish-orange hair and pale hind 

 marr^in. Ahdomen aeneous-violet; a large triangular cupreous 

 spot, with yellow hairs in front and with whitish liairs behind, oil 

 each side of 2nd segment. In certain lights the sides of tlie 

 abdomen towards the tip, and the whole of the last (4th ) segment 

 a))pear more or less cupreous or aeneous. On the middle of each 

 of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th segments are two greyish-white, narrow 

 stripes, beginning in the centre of each segment, almost conti- 

 guous, and extending diagonally to the posterior corners. AVhole 



