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joint yellowish with a row of subapical short bristles, the 3rd dark 

 brown, with minute pale pubescence, squarish or nearly V-shaped 

 at tip, a long thick arista from the upper angle at the tip. 



Thorax.— WhoWy shining black, bare, except for microscopic 

 yellow hairs and two or three notopleural bristles. Scutellum 

 with two apical bristles. 



Abdomen.— Black, moderately shining, practically bare, belly 

 similar. Genitalia rather large, black, a pair of claspers with large 

 basal joint with long crooked terminal black hook-like appendages. 



Legs. — Brownish yellow, fore coxae half as long as the femora ; 

 anterior femora incrassated, hind femora not thickened, long ; 

 tarsi more or less brown. All the legs minutely pubescent. 



Wings. — Venation normal, anal cell absent; the anal cross 

 vein present but incomplete. Wings microscopically setulose, 

 pale brown, no stigma. 



Described from a single cf in the Indian Museum taken by 

 Dr. Annandale at Simla, 20-vii-ii. 



ELAPHROPEZA, Macq. 



cxul, Os. vSac, Berl. Ent. Zeits., xxvi, 113 (1882). Phihp- 



pine Is. 

 fulvithorax, Wulp, Termes Fuzet., xx, 138 (1907). Ceylon. 

 spuria, Bezzi, Ann. Mus. Hung., ii, 347 (1904). Papua, 

 metatarsata, id., I.e., 348. Ceylon, 

 basalis, ?^., /.c, 349- Ceylon. 

 formosae, id., I.e., v, 566 (1907). Formosa. 

 palpata» Meij., Tijd. v. Ent., liv, 330 cr' (1911). Java. 

 lineola, id., I.e., 331 ? . Java, 

 calcarifcra, Bezzi, Ann. Mus. Hung., v, 568 (1907). 



Elaphropeza variegata, mihi, sp. nov. 



& 5 Bengal, Assam and Orissa. Long, barely 2 mm. 



Head. — Black ; occiput with microscopic pale hairs. Eyes 

 contiguous except for a small vertical triangle which carries the 

 three ocelli. Antennae with first two joints brownish yellow, a 

 few bristles at the tip of the 2nd ; the 3rd elongate conical, black- 

 ish, with long pubescent arista. Proboscis short, base much 

 thickened, brownish yellow ; palpi much shorter, pale yellow. 



Thorax. — Bright ferruginous, a little blackish about the 

 base of the wings and a thin black median stripe present or absent. 

 Scutellum and metanotum concolorous with thoracic dorsum. A 

 few lateral bristles on the latter, a few towards the posterior 

 border and two on the scutellum. 



Abdomen. — The tip stump- like in (f , tapering in $ ; dull 

 yellowish on basal and apical thirds, the middle third black ; in 

 some examples the basal third is more brownish than yellowish. 

 Belly similar to upper side ; genitalia small, concolorous. 



Legs. — All yellowish, except for the slightly brown coxae; 

 femora not at all thickened ; hind tibiae with two long stiff hairs 



