110 H. C. EFFLATOUN. 



but witli very short inconspicuous pul)€scence; scutellum shilling 

 feneons, alniost l'rec fcoin pubescenee ; Radius 4 + 5 only slightly 

 dipped. 



DESCRIPTION:— Maie: Face and frons shining bhuk, but 

 entirely covered with dense silvery-white dust and sonie wliite 

 hairs, amongst which are intermingled yellowish ones. Jowls, as 

 well as niost of the occiput, covered with white dust and whitish- 

 grey pubescenee; the pubescenee on the very shallow occiput is ex- 

 treniely short. Vertexvery long and put'fed ont above and pointed 

 in front, very shining seneous-bhuk and sparsely punctate, with a 

 hair arising from each dot; its pubescenee is rather long, tawny- 

 yellow on the extrême front, blackish about the ocelli and again 

 tawny-yellow on the back half ; the extrême tip of the vertical 

 triangle is usually covered with yellow dust and the anterior 

 ocelUis is nnich furthei' from the tw^o postcrior, than the two 

 lattcr are from each othcr. Eyes touching for a distance wliich is 

 shorter than the length of the frons (for about six to seven faoets), 

 covered with white, very inconspicuous hairs. 



Antennes with the two basai joints black and the third rcddish 

 black but blackish above; most of the second and ail the third 

 joints are covered with shining whitish dust and in addition the 

 second joint bears a short greyish-white pubescenee; arista three 

 jointed, about twice the length of the third joint of the antennse 

 with its apical half very slender; its two basai joints are decp 

 reddish-brown, while the long tiàrd joint is entirely blackish. 



Thorax very shining, blackish œneous, and rather densely 

 punctate, with a pair of wdiitish bands in front, wdiich are in- 

 conspicuous and scarcely extend l>eyond the middlc ; the humeri 

 are rather swollen and prominent, with a distinct and deep jiost- 

 humural suture; pubescenee very short, pale and inconspicuous, 

 exccpt for a tuft of rather longer whitish hairs on the suture. 

 Siutclhuii also very shining 9ene(ms, densely punctate and with a 

 .siiiiiiar pubescenee; its margin is serriform and flattened, excej)t 

 at the basai corners; the margin appears as if it raight bc com- 

 po&ed of about twenty short stout spines which had coalesced ex- 

 eept at their tips. 



Abdomen about twice as long as the thorax and entirely shi- 

 ning aeneous-black, with three pairs of whitish lunules, one pair 

 on each of the second, third and fourth segments respectively; it 

 is also den.sely punctate like the thorax with short pale pubescenee. 

 which is rather inconspicuous, except for a tuft or fringc of 

 Avhitish hairs oti the basai corners on the sides of the second seg- 

 ment, which is not unlike the fringe in Syritfa. Venter inpunc- 

 tate, reddish-brown near the base, opaque-grey, but with a fairly 



