CEltlA. H29 



3nl vein ; traces of a paler narrower spot towards tips in marginal 

 and subniarginal cells, llalteres orange-brown. 



Lemftli, 8 mm. 



Described from a single 5 {^lipc) from the Pusa collection, sent 

 to the British Museum, taken at Pusa " in a house," 2. iv. li)U6. 

 Allied to C. compacta, Brun. 1 have also seen one $ from 

 Kashmir, oUOO ft,, iv. 19Ul {Nurse). 



255. Ceria compacta, lyrxn. 



Ceriit compiicta, l^runetti, licc. Ind. Mus. ii, p. 95 (1908) ; i,pl. xiii, 

 tig. 13, fuUiusect (1907). 



$ . A^ertex broadly b'ack,aIso a Avide stri|)e below antenmie, and 

 the lower part of the face and a transverse line just below the 

 vertical black spot ; rest of face red, antennal |)rotnberance 

 reddish-brown, antennje dark brown, 3rd joint nearly bl.ick. A 

 little white hair behind I he eyes and on lower part of bead. 

 Thorax wholly black except red shoulder-spots, and a vertical red 

 stripe on each side a little in front of the wings ; scutellum 

 entirely red. Abdomen black, dull, posterior edges of 2nd, 3rd 

 and -Ith segments with a thick but narrow red border. Lei/s red ; 

 coxae, a narrow ring at the base of the four anterior femora, and 

 a ring extending to about two-thirds of the lengtb on the hind 

 femora (tbe exti'eme base of which is red), and a narrow, some- 

 what interrupted ring on the apical half of all the tibiae, black. 

 Wings clear ; brown from fore border to just beyond the 3rd 

 longitudinal vein and including the whole of the lower basal cell. 

 Haheres yellowish-red. 



Length, 1 1 j nim. 



Described from one 9 taken by me at Mussoorie, AV. llimalnyas, 

 22. vi. 19(J5. In jny collection. 



256. Ceria dimidiatipennis, sp. nov. 



d $ . /lead : eyes in S contiguous for only live or six facets ; 

 upper facets slightly larger than others ; ocellar triangle small, 

 black, behind it the considerably produced and rather elevated, 

 thick occipital border is bright sulphur-yellow. Frons and face 

 sulphur-yellow. Base of antennae, a small curved stripe ihence 

 on each side to eye-margin, a narrow median line from base of 

 antennie to iip|)er mouth-border, and a very broad band on each 

 cheek, black". Antennie lilack, |)etiole brownish-orange at has.-. 

 Occiput black. In $, frons one-fourth of the head at vertex, 

 with broad black transverse band from eye to eye but not 

 descending to antennae, connected by a narrow line across the 

 yellow occipital vertical region (dividing latter into two elongate 

 spots) with the narrow, black hind margin of that region. A 

 transverse stripe below antenna', brcader and straightcr than the 



