384 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
Abdomen laterally compressed, tergum black, sternum 
yellow, except the last two segments, which are all black, 
the whole with pale pubescence. First segment with apical 
yellow dorsal band, segments two to five with apical black 
bands extending somewhat indefinitely into yellow sternal 
area, 
Legs, coxee and femora pale yellow, tibize appear darker 
from more closely set setule. Tarsi black. 
Wings pale gray. Halteres yellow. 
Long : 24 mm. 
Described from a single female, taken on window at dusk. 
Suduganga, Matale, Ceylon, January 19, 1920. 
Type in my own collection. 
EXECHIA AMPULLATA n. Sp. 
Female.—Head : Frons black, with thick silvery pubes- 
cence. Eyes very minutely pubescent. Antenne and palpi 
pale yellowish, apical half of flagellum slightly darker. 
Thorax white, the dorsal surface occupied by a black ovoid 
mark with a short anterior narrower extension (on extremity of 
which the colour fades to brown), the pattern resembling an 
earthenware vessel. Pro-, meso-, and ptero-pleurzee dark 
brown, remainder of pleural area white. A small brown patch 
at costal root of wing. Some strong setz on anterior and 
lateral margins and on propleuron. Scutellum black, barely 
separated by a paler area from the thoracic pattern, apically 
two long erect set, interior to which is a pair of smaller 
porrect setz, apically crossed. 
Abdomen yellow, dorsally the whole of the first and second 
and posterior half of third to sixth segments black. Venter 
yellowish. 
Legs.—Coxa and femora whitish, extreme tips of posterior 
femora darkened. Tibiz slightly darker, tarsi blackish. 
Wings slightly yellowish. Fork of fifth vein, short, occur- 
ring slightly exterior to origin of third vein. Halteres pale. 
Long : 34mm. 
Described from a female in good condition taken on a 
window. Suduganga, Matale, Ceylon, March 15, 1920. 
Type in my own collection. 
