MILESIA. 269 



brown, with very narrow, black posterior borders, ajid a. shoit 

 dorsal stripe, wliich immediately divides, and extejids to each side 

 iu tbe shape ot" a loop, attaining the edge just before the middle 

 of the segment; posterior half of 3rd segment blackish, the coh)ur 

 extended forward in middle ; 4th segment narrowly black at ba^e. 

 Genitalia nut conspicuous, yellowish-brown. AVhole abdomen 

 covered with short yellow hair on the yellow parts, and short 

 black hair on remainder, with rather long yellow hair at sides, 

 and with a row of moderately long black hairs on posterior border 

 of ith segment. A^enter yellow on basal half, with a blackisli, 

 narrow, central line ; blackish on posterior half, entirely covered 

 with light yellow soft fluffy hair. Letjs: fore coxaj shining black 

 with soft yellow hair; posterior coxie apparently yellow, witli a 

 black streak below, all covered with close long yellow hair. Femora 

 orange-yellow, witl) a long black streak on under side ; hind pair 

 with a diffused black streak above also, and bearing a moderately 

 long orange-yellow spine below, near the tip. All femora with 

 long yellow hair, with some short rows of black hair intermixed ; 

 the hair being scarcest on upper side of anterior femora, and 

 thickest on lower and inner sides of hind pair. Tibiae tawny- 

 brown, the fore pair darker towards the tip, the middle pair much 

 lighter, the hind pair darker ; all the tibiae with minute yellow 

 pubescence, and with long yellow hair on the under side, consist- 

 ing of a single shorter fringe on the fore pair, a long and a short 

 fringe on the middle pair, while the hind pair are densely co\ered 

 on the whole of the lower and inner sides. Tarsi yellowish-tawnj'-, 

 with short yellow pubescence ; u])per sides blackish-brown. Wings 

 pale grey, brownish along anterior margin, and having the slightest 

 possible trace of a dark suffusion towards tip. lialteres, stems 

 yellow, knobs red-brown. 



Length, 20 mm. 



The description is mainly from a perfect S in the Indian 

 Museum from 8ikkim. S. second specimen from the Darjiling 

 District, 1000-3000 ft. {Lord CarmkhaeVs collector) ; and de 

 Meijere has seen the species from Sikkim, a single S in the 

 Hungarian National Museum. A series of both sexes in the 

 British Museum from the llunjit Valley, Sikkim, v. 1894 (Zi?»*f/- 

 Juim); Kliasi Hills, Assam (Sldden); Assam (Bcuhjh'y) and the 

 Domdami A'alley, Tenasserim, 27. viii. 1893 {Bingham). 



209. Milesia verticalis, sp. nov. 



<S 2 . Head : J , orange-yellow ; eyes contiguous only at a 

 point, facets almost of uniform size : vertex and vertical triangle 

 very conspicuously swolhju, deeper orange; occipital njargin 

 behind eyes raiher broad in proHlc, all these parts with dense 

 orange-yellow pubescence. Ocelli very small, close together, 

 placed just below middle of vertical i)rominence. Frons, face 

 and cheeks with yellow tomentum and a litile yellow pubescence 



