CHRYSOTOXUM. 



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moderately wide black median stripe whicli is sometimes narrowly 

 orange on each side ; cheeks sometimes pale orange, with an indis- 

 tinct blackish intervening stripe. Proboscis short, black. Occiput 

 black, yellow-dusted, with yellow pubescence on upper part, 

 whitish towards margins and with whitish pubescence on lower 

 part. TJiora.v : dorsum black, with the usual two yellowish-grey 

 median stripes ; side margins ratiier broadly yeJlowisli ; pleurae 

 blackish with a brassy tinge and some yellow pubescence, a yellow 

 spot of the usual kind on mesopleuraaiid sternopleura. Scufellum 

 lemon-yellow to rather brownish, with pale yellow to brownish 

 pubescence. Abdomen noininally yellowish ; 1st segment orange- 

 brown : 2nd with an arcuate, transverse, rather narrow black line 

 across middle of segment, the ends not quite reaching hind 

 margin, a short vertical stripe connecting it with a narrow])^ black 

 front margin ; hind margin occupied by a very broad, low, some- 

 what orange-tinged area filling up the remaining surface of 

 the segment. ;3rd segment yellow, a pair of elongate, black, 



Fig. G3. — Chrysofoxum haph/ms. Walk, {citronellum, Briin.), c?, 

 thorax and abdomeu. 



diagonally placed stripes, their inner ends pointed, nearly con- 

 tiguous towards middle of anterior margin, a large orange triangular 

 space oi\ hind margin similar in colour to that of 2nd segment. 

 4th segment similar to 3rd ; otli segment black, with a pair of 

 comparatively large yellow elongate spots placed diagonally, and 

 a large orange-yellow apical spot. Pubescence of abdomen short, 

 yellow, tliH margin with a fringe of short black hairs, anterior 

 corners with yellow pubescence. Venter from orange to yellow, 

 hind margins of segments blaclc. Le(is mainly yellow ; fore coxa) 

 yellowish, posterior pairs brown, with a little concolorous jiubes- 

 cence ; hind femora in cJ sdmetimes l)i-o\\uish apicallv, hind tibiae 

 sometimes with about apical halt' orange or brownish ; hind tarsi 

 sometiujes brown. Whuja jiale grey, a little yellowish anteriorly; 

 halteres pale yellow ; squanifc whitish, margins orange, with a 

 little yellow pubescence. 



Described from the types of bajJij/nai, se.<ifa.tcui/uni and cUro- 

 nelluni, and from a number of other specimens from various 

 sources. .Simla, 7U0U ft., 9. v. 1910 (Annamlale) ; Kampore 



