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COKOPIDiE. 



antennae bright orange-brown, tip of 3rd joint sometimes blacliish ; 

 2nd joint twice as long as 1st ; proboscis brownisli-yellow, tip 

 black, barely twice as long as bead; occiput blackisli, witb a 

 brilliant wide gold dust-stripe on the side margins. Thorcuv 

 orange-brown, with humeral region and area towards bind margin 

 of dorsum dusted witb golden-yellow, as the whole dorsum 

 appears to be when viewed from in front. Pleurae concolorous, 

 with a silvery or golden-yellow dust-stripe from edge of dorsum 

 to hind margin of sternopleura; scutellum orange-brown; meta- 

 notum and liypopleura richly dusted witb golden-yellow. Abdo- 

 men bright orange-brown, hind margins of 1st and 2nd segments 

 whitish- or gold-dusted, more obviously so towards sides ; 3rd and 

 4tb segments broadly gold-dusted towards bind margins, remaining 

 segments wholly dusted witb gold. Pubescence very sliort and 

 inconspicuous. Legs bright orange-brown ; coxae witb silvery- 

 white reflections ; basal half of tibiae lemon-yellow, outer side with 

 glistening golden-yellow reflections. Wivgs clear; costal cell 

 pale dirty yellow; the blackish band hetween the 1st and 3rd 

 veins extends distally to about the tip of the 2nd vein, dyirg 

 away there ; halteres pale yellow. 



Levgth, 12 u)m. 



Eedescribed from the type $ (not J as originally stated) from 

 Puri, Orissa Coast, 6-13. xi. 1910 {Kemp), a second $ from 

 Babghai, near Puri, 16-20. viii. 1911 {Annandale d- Gravely); 

 Deesa, iii, viii, ix, x, & xi. 1901 (Nurse); Quetta, iii, viii, & 

 is. 1901, and v. 1902 (^'^urse). Type in Indian Museum. 



This species is coloured clean yellow and orange, and is principally 

 distinguished from all others by the dark band of tlie wing dying 

 away gradually instead of being more or less sharply delimited 

 distally. F. munda is somewhat intermediate between Cono])s and 

 PhysonphaJa, as the anterior femora are not incraseated, though 

 1 he bind cnes are appreciably so, and the anterior cross-vein is 

 distinctly beyond the middle of the discal cell; both of these 

 characters are more indicative of the latter than of the former genus. 



A variety of this species has the 3rd antennal joint black 

 except at the base, where it is reddish-orange. The dorsum of 

 the thorax is wholly dusted with grey; the grey dust extends to 

 all the margins, and includes the humeri, scutellum and meta- 

 notum, though there is a trace of a median dark stripe on the 

 anterior half of the dorsum in the 6 . The pleura? bear a broad, 

 conspicuous, whitish-grey stripe. The wing-band in the d dies 

 away, exactly as it does in typical mnnda ; but in the $ it ends in 

 an almost truncate form (though its limit is not very sharply 

 defined) at the tip of the 2nd vein, but just enters tlie top corner 

 of the 1st posterior cell. 



Length, 12 mm. 



Described from a c5' and $ taken by Col. Nurse at Quetta,. 

 viii & y._1902 respectively. Ihe c? was presented by him to 

 the British Museum. A seccnd $ specimen is intern:ediate 

 between the normnl form and this variety. 



