CmOItRlIIXA. 



287 



cream-coloured pubesceuce. Metanotum shining black, bare, 

 Abdomen: 1st segment dull bluish-grey, blackish at base with a 

 bunch ol:' pinkisIi-bro\Mi hairs in the centre of the posterior 

 border ; 2nd, 3rd and 4th segments with the basal half sub- 

 metallic dull bluish-black, and the apical half sub-metallic 

 brownish-black with a light brown posterior edge (widest on 'ith 

 segment). Each segment is indented transversely by a narrow 

 grey band bearing short grey hair, the hair in front of it being 

 light brownish-grey and that on apical half brownish-black. Tip 

 of abdomen with brown liairs; genitalia black, concealed, globular, 

 with black hairs. Venter blacl<ish, with greyish hairs, posterior 

 borders of segments tawny. Legs : coxte blackish, fore pair with 

 whitish reflection and grey hair ; liind pair yellowish, streaked 

 w'itli black above, with yellowish-grey hair below. Femora black, 

 extreme tips orange-yellow, basal half of middle pair below, and 



Fig. 57. — Criorvliina dentaia, Brun., 

 S, hind leg. 



a ba-<al band on hind pair, orange-yellow. The hind femora are 

 barely thicker than the others and bear a distinct wide tootli on 

 the under side near tho base. All the femora covered with a 

 considera!)le amount of ligtit greyish hair, mixed with some 

 brown hairs, the under sides bearing the longest hair. Tibiae : 

 rather more than basal half of anterior pairs brownish-yellow, rhe 

 rest black, hind pair nearly all black ; all with short whitish hair. 

 Tarsi : anterior four brownish-yellow, with darker tips and traces 

 of a darker central line; hind pair dark brown, with the u]iper 

 side mainly black, Winr/s pale grey : stigma dark brown ; cross- 

 veins lightly suffused for a small space with brown. Halteres 

 yellow. Squama; transparent white, with yellow ish-brown border 

 bearing long white hair. 



LtHf/th, 11 mm. 



Jjescril)ed from a c? i'l the Indian Museum collection taken at 

 Kodiali, Simla District. 



221. Criorrbiua interrupta, sp. nov. (IM. V, fig. 11.) 



d . Head: eye« at point of nearest approach just perceptibly 

 separated for a distance of four or five facets by a very narrow 

 shinmg black bare line ; vertical triangle black with black hairs 



