MICRODON. 317 



Describeil origiiiiilly from one c? , the t)jpe. iu the Indian 

 Museum collection, t'rom Hoondrijal, JNeptil. 13hovvali, 2. vii. 

 1912 (/«»««); Push, IS.ix. IU08; Chapra, Bengal; .Simla, 1S9S 

 i^Nurse); Khasi Hills, Assam. 



245, Microdon ruficaudus, Brun. 



Microdon nijicaudux, Brunetti, llec. Iiid. Mus. ii, p. 03 (1908). 



$ . Head above and below antennae entirely ferruginous-red, 

 with short tawny hair; frons one-fourth the widtli of liead; O'jelli 

 very close together ; antennse tawny-red, 3rd joint brownish-hlack. 

 Eyes bare, shining, facets very small. Thorax bhickisli, with tiery 

 red-ferruginous hair; scutellum similar. ^I/k/ojh^u obconical, dis- 

 tinctly longer than tliorax ; basal half black; apical half tawny- 

 red with short golden-red hair. Venter bare, basal half black, 

 apical half red. //ty* ferruginous- red, practically bare; coxae, a 

 streak at base below middle femora, hind femora wholly except 

 tip, and a spot at outer side of hind tibia^ at tip, black. Wiufjs 

 tawny -yellow. Halteres tawny. 



Le)t(/th, l-t mm. 



Described from the one $ fak(Mi by me in Calcutta, 20. ix. 19')-^. 

 Ti/pe in my collection. Sack has recently recorded this species 

 from Formosa. 



246. Microdon flavipes, Brun. 



Microdoii flavipes, Brunetti, Rec. Iiid. :Mus. ii,p. Di' (1908). 



S $ . Frons and vertex blackish, the former in c? one-fourth, 

 in 2 one-third width of head at vertex, with dense gold-yellow 

 hair, only visible from above; eyes bare, shining, bright biown, 

 antenna? and antennal stem brown, 3rd joint two to three times as 

 long as 2nd ; 1st as long as 2nd and 3rd together. jfV/orrt.r brown, 

 dorsum black, with gold hair; .scutellum black, with gold hair. 



b""ig. {i'l .—Microdon flii'ipcs, Bnin., lel'L aiiteiinii in prolilo *. 



Abdomen orange to brown with gold pubescence, whicii is vi'rv 

 ininuio on 1st three segments, seen only from in front, and 

 forming a gold spot extending over the edges at the sides of the 

 3rd and 4th segments. Two broad gold hair-spots sometimes 

 meet towards the apex of the abdomt'ii, in the form of a V. 

 Legs entirely bright tawny, with minute silver-yellow pubescence 



* 111 fif,'. (m Ihr 2iid j<)iii( is 11 lillk' too .short in inM|)<irii(,n tullic."r(l. 



