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SYBPHID^. 



All indistinct though obvious circuLir black spot in the middle of 

 the dorsum of the 2nd segment ; 3rd and 4th segments dark 

 reddisli-brown or brou n ; posterior margin of each with a thick 

 lemon-yellow band, whole abdomen with a slight greyisli bloom. 

 Venter concolorous, with an indistinct yellow band on hind 

 margins of 2ud and 3rd segments. Legs (fore pair missing) 

 light reddish-brown with a hoary bloom ; knees and base of tibiae 

 a little yellowish in certain lights. Wings clear ; anterior part 

 yellowish-brown, the colour reaching to the spurious vein. A 

 subapical blackish spot of some size extends from tiie costa pos- 

 teriorly just below the 3rd vein and readies basally to about level 

 with the anterior cross-vein ; the wing-tip below this subapical 

 spot is lightly blackish ; no obvious stigma. Halteres reddish- 

 brown. 



Length, 9 mm. 



Described originally from one $ from Kumdhik, base of Nepal 

 Himalayas, 1^2. iii. 1909 : in the Indian Museum collection. I 

 have also seen examples ( c? $ ) from Singla, Darjiling District, 

 1500 ft., iv. 1913 {Lord CarmichaeVs collector). 



259. Ceria crux, Brun. 



Ceria crux, Brimetti, Rec. lud. Mus. xi, p. 253 (1915). 



5 . Head black ; a bright yellow, moderate-sized, round spot on 

 each side of froiis between base of antenna and eye, contiguous 

 to latter but not to former ; a broad yellow sti-ipe on each side 

 of face, beginning in a point just* below the circular spot, 

 broadening rapidly, thence gradually narrowing to a point at the 

 mouth-border; these four yellow spots leave a black cross, viewed 

 from in front of the head, extending from vertex to mouth- 

 opening. Antennae black, 1st joint, which is nearly as long as 

 2nd and 3rd together (these two being subequal), reddish-brown, 

 especially on under side : apical style of 3rd joint conical, with 

 short narrow elongate tip. A little yellowish or greyish pubes- 

 cence, almost tomentum, behind vertex, some slight grey 

 pubescence on lower part of ocular orbit. Thorax black ; a bright 

 yellow spot on each humerus, a triangular one at each end of the 

 traosverse suture, which itself bears a thin greyish line ; a bright 

 yellow vertical stripe on mesopleura and a round similarly 

 coloured spot on sternopleura, both stripe and spot nearly in a 

 line with the spot at the end of the transverse suture. Scutellum 

 bright yellow, black at base. Abdomen black, anterior corners of 

 1st segment with a round bright yellow spot; hind borders of 

 2nd, 3rd and -Ith segments with a moderately wide well-defined 

 banil of same colour. 1st segment contracted distinctly but not 

 greatly towards tip, and 2nd segment equally contracted at base; 

 the contracted p;irt at its narrowest point being one-thii'd as 

 wide as the abdomen at its broadest part. Legs : coxae blackish ; 

 anterior legs ferruginous-brown, traces of an indistinct blackish 

 ring on all tibia3 beyond the middle ; hind femora blackish, except 



