306 sykphidjE. 



233. Callicera sackeni, Very. 



Callicera snckeni, Verrall, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. p. 331 (1913). 



" S • Head dilated and nearly two-thirds as long as broad, 

 pubescence ol face greyish-orange and hardly leaving a bare 

 middle line but bare only just about middle of facial knob, a good 

 deal of yellow dust along upper sides of face, pubescence similar 

 to the facial is present all round under eyes and up lower part of 

 back of head, which is very little inflated ; jowls aeneous. Eyes 

 densely clothed with pubescence, and I think I can trace a dark 

 line of pubescence down eyes in the usual place. Erons shining 

 black, almost or quite bare. Antennae without style not so long 

 as head, both the basal segments short and 3rd segment quite 

 three times as long as the other two together, considerably dilated 

 on the basal halt" and ferruginous beneath at the base, but tapering 

 on the end half; style long, white and thin, but blackish and 

 thickened at base, almost half as long as 3rd joint. Thorax with 

 brownish-orange dense pubescence, but more than hind half of 

 disc with mainly black pubescence intermixed, and scutellum on 

 disc with practically all rather conspicuous black pubescence, 

 though beneath and round margin the pubescence is longer and 

 all brownish-orange. Pleurae with brownish-orange pubescence. 

 Abdomen bright aeneous, though I can trace nearly all the 

 2nd segment dull black and a broad dull black band right 

 across the disc of 3rd segment, it is on this latter segment that 

 the bright aeneous colour is most conspicuous on the fore and hind 

 margins, broader at the sides than at middle ; the 4th segment 

 appears coppery aeneous. Pubescence equal and dense, of a more 

 ruddy hue than on thorax, ^^ith no trace of black hairs at tip. 

 Belly with dense brownish-orange pubescence. Genitalia black. 

 Legs rufous orange, femora black except on the tip quarter when 

 they become indeterminately rufous-orange, tarsi rather darkened 

 above on the last two or three joints. Pubescence behind anterior, 

 and in front of hind, femora, dense, not very long, brownish- 

 orange; hind tibiae rather darkened above for a considerable space 

 after the middle ; coxae, trochanters and base of femora con- 

 spicuously black haired, especially the coxae and trochantei-s. 

 Wings rather brownish about base and fore part just past discal 

 cross-vein aiid more so about costa to end of long subcostal vein, 

 discal cross-vein at two-fifths of discal cell, upper marginal cross- 

 vein a little angulated. Squamae dai-k brownish glassy, fringes of 

 thoracal squamae long, brownish-orange. Halteres with small 

 blackish-brown knobs. 



" Length without antennae 13 millim. Antennae 3-5 mm. 

 " Described from one S i'l th*^ British Museum from Burma 

 (Fort White, North Chin Hills, 7000 ft., April 1893) collected 

 by Lt. E. Y. Watson.'" 



