260 sy:i{PHiB.5:. 



202. Eumerus sexvittatus, Brun. 



Eumcnts sexvittatus, Bruuetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. xi, p. 245 (1915). 



5 . Head black, rather dull ; vertex and upper part of frons 

 with short black hairs ; ocelli small, dull, dark reddish ; lower 

 part of: frons with yellowish-grey hair ; eyes with sparse white 

 pubescence. Face, seen from below, whitish-grey, with whitish- 

 grey hair. Back of head black, with a little sliort whitish hair on the 

 eye-orbits. Proboscis black, reddish-brown towards tip. Antennse 

 black, 3rd joint rather large, ovate, lower part white-dusied. 

 Thorax black, rather dull, with very short yellowish-brown hair 

 covering all the dorsum and scutellum, and extending over the 

 sides below the shoulders ; no trace of fine longitudinal stripes ; 

 sides blackish. Hind margin of scutellum concolorous. Abdomen 

 black, dull, 1st segment only with a little aeneous tinge ; 2ud, 

 3rd and 4th segments with a pair of diagonally placed whitish 

 elongate spots, each beginning near centre of segment, but well 

 separated from one another, and reaching towards but not 

 attaining hind corners. Abdominal pubescence black on the black 

 parts and yellowish on the spots ; also towards upper corners of 

 abdomen and at the sides. Legs black, with yellowish-grey or 

 whitish-grey pubescence. Bassl half of anterior tibiae (and, appar- 

 ently occasionally, the extreme tips of the femora) reddish-brown, 

 the colour on the hind pair of legs much restricted ; middle tarsi 

 reddish-brown, except towards tips. Hind femora greatly in- 

 crassated as usual, hind metatarsi considerably incrassate. Wings 

 pale grey, stigma brownish ; signs of a very slight brownish suf- 

 fusion across the middle of the wing. Halteres yellow. 



Length, 8 mm. 



Described from one $ from Bhowali, Kumaon District, 

 5700 ft., October 1909 {Imms). In the Indian jMuseum. 



203. Eumerus perpensus, Bnm. 



JEumenis perpensa, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. xiii, p. 88 (1917). 



S 2 . Head : in J ,eyes with brown pubescence, closely contiguous 

 for a distance greater than height of frontal triangle; vertical tri- 

 angle black with a slight feiieous tinge and yellow pubescence; 

 ocelli small, placed at lower extremity of triangle amid a little 

 black hair. Frons and face with white tomentum, latter with white 

 pubescence also. Occiput rather broad behind upper part of 

 eyes, rather aeneous-black, but dying away at middle of eyes 

 laterally. Antennae moderately dark, paler on inner side, 3rd joint 

 approximately ovate, arista black. Mouth-parts brown. In $ , 

 frons and face aeneous-black, seen to be grey-dusted when viewed 

 at a low angle ; frons with rather dense dark brown and yellow 

 hairs ; face with white pubescence. Thorax aeneous blue-black, 

 shining, with two narrow whitish well-separated median stripes 

 ending some distance before the scutellum ; latter wholly blue- 

 black ; dorsum of thorax with yellow pubescence, that on 

 scutellum, greyish. A little yellowish pubescence on anterior 



