382 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
pale smoky-yellow, apex slightly darker, only markedly so 
from upper branch of third vein to upper branch of fourth. 
Halteres paler yellow than thorax. 
Long : 3 mm. 
Described from unique male in perfect condition, except for 
loss of both hind legs beyond trochanters, taken on window. 
Suduganga, Matale, Ceylon, August 30, 1918. 
Type in my own collection. 
The fifteen-jointed antenna is a doubtful point ; it may 
possibly consist of sixteen joints, as in the remainder of the 
genus, the appearance of the first flagellar joint indicating 
that it possibly consists of a fused first simple with pectinate 
second joint. This is the second species of the genus to be 
described with an eight-segmented abdomen. 
EXXECHIA ARGENTEOFASCIATA hn. Sp. 
Female-—Head wholly orange-yellow, frons and vertex 
with fine golden hairs, a few black bristles along upper interior 
orbit. Eyes minutely pale pubescent. Middle ocellus absent. 
Antenne arising from lower margin of an elliptical depression, 
of which the upper margins extend to halfway between root 
of antenne and the ocelli, yellow, the apical six or seven joints 
of the flagellum very slightly darker, the whole flagellum with 
minute whitish pubescence. Palpi brown, the apical joint 
slender. 
Thorax—Dorsum orange, minutely golden pubescent. 
Above the dorsopleural suture a broad silvery stripe width 
about one-third of orange area), which appears black, with 
only a fine silvery lower margin viewed from front or side. 
Pleure yellow. A row of stiff dark bristles around dorso- 
pleural suture, weaker on anterior margin. Humerus with 
three strong bristles, a strong one on each posterior corner of 
thorax, and a prescutellar pair. The dorsopleural fascia has 
some bristles along its upper margin, and a few on the silvery 
area, irregularly placed. Scutellum concolorous with dorsum, 
very small, with traces of silvery pubescence, in certain lights, 
along its apical margin, above which is a row of small bristles: 
M>tanotum steep, carinate. Metapleure with a few dark 
bristly hairs. 
