coNors. 35 1 



that of the :2iid ; the 2iul joint lias minute hlack bristles. Inner 

 orbit ot" eyes with extremely narrow golden-yellow or yellowish- 

 white margins, margin ot" occiput of similar colour. lliorax 

 reddish-brown with whitish reflections in certain lights; a litlie 

 yellowish or whitish dust or a whitish reflection on inner sides ot" 

 humeri, posterior corners of dorsum, base of wing, upper part 

 of metanotumand, indistinctly, over pleurae ; metanotum generall)' 

 blackish behind. Ahdomcn yellowish-brown or reddish-brown, 

 only slightly narrowed at base; 1st segment with yellowish- white 

 dust ; 2nd with golden-yellow dust at sides ; 3rd and 4rh 

 subequal in length, nearly wholly brown with a more or less 

 blackish patch in the middle, or sometimes with an irregular 

 blackish basal and suba|)ical band; 5th segment very short, 6th 

 longest of all, both normally covered with golden-yellow dust, but 

 the 5th is sometimes brownish at the base. There are some tiny 

 black bristles on sides of 1st segment, on sides of 2nd at base, and 

 on sides (at base) of 4tli, 5th and Gth segments. Venter uniforuily 

 brownish-yellow. Genitalia in c? normal; in 5 the large con- 

 colorous shield-like organ on the under side of the 5th segment is 

 black and apparently ribbed on the inside, and bears long fine 

 hairs ; ovipositor large, oval, shining, concolorous, with minute 

 black bristles, the 2nd joint very small, witli small appendages and 

 black hair. Legs bright orange-brown, with minute black bristles ; 

 coxae "with golden-yellow or yellowish-white reflections; outer 

 sides of all the tibiae and dorsal side of hind tarsi with a very 

 bright, yellowish-white, shimmer; anterior tarsi wholly black 

 froui base to tip, hind tarsi brown below; piilvilli ami claws 

 yellowish-wliite. Wituia yellowish; about the distal third is to a 

 very variable extent and intensity brownish, this coloration somcr 

 times forming an almost definite large spot, at others barely 

 darkening the wing; the brown colour sometimes extends over 

 the hinder part of the wing; in some specimens the whole of the 

 "wing is almost uniformly dark brown. llalteres yellow or 

 brownish-yellow. 



Lengthy 9-1-t mm. 



l^ijp(- in the Bigot collection, from Ceylon. 



Rndescribed from about thirty specimens in good condition, and 

 agreeing closely with the type, from Pusa ; 30. viii. 1907; on grass, 

 29. ix. 19U7; 6.x. 1915; Chapra, Bengal (.l/«c/i-YHZte) ; Rangoon, 

 vi. 1897 (Bingham), a typical $ . A specimen in the Pusa col- 

 lection from Pusa (ix. 1907) has the wings quite clear, with a 

 short ap|)endix on the inner side of the outer margin of the discal 

 cell, and the 3rd antennal joint is as long as in interimxlins. In 

 all other respects, except that, the golden abdominal bands are 

 not (|uite so conspicuous, it resembles the typieal form. .\ not her 

 specimen {6, in tlic British Museum) from Ilarigalli, (."eyion, 

 2. vii. 1892 ( J'e/Vy/tn/), has the wings entirely rather dark brown, 

 but it agrees in all the other specific characters with IIk; ty|)ical 

 form, and it has ju^t a trace of the subapical darker chmd on 

 the wing. 



