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margin with a median projection on each side of which it is somewhat concave. Spot 

 below calhis velvet black. Antennae : First joint considerably swollen, about three 

 times as long as its greatest breadth ; outer half (from base to apex) blackish, inner 

 half rather light bro\Mi. Second joint similarly coloured. Enlarged portion of third 

 joint dark brown on its outer face, especially towards the base and apex, inner face 

 entirely reddish brown ; terminal annuli black. Palpi light brownish, with black 

 hair, except at the extreme base. 



Thorax rather dark greyish brown "vvith inconspicuous markings consisting of three 

 gre3nsh lines from the front margin, of which the lateral pair are broadest in front, 

 narrowed behind, and just reach the usual postsutural spots ; a median line extending 

 to the scutellum, but usually interrupted ; and a pair of small light spots in 

 front of the scutellum. Scutellum usually more or less reddish at the tip. Whole- 

 mesonotum rather densely clothed with close-lying yellowish pubescence, and also> 

 with sparser, more erect dark hairs. Pleurae gre3'ish, clothed with white hair. 



Fig. 8. Haematopota rabida, Edw., sp. n. 



Abdomen reddish brown, the last few segments dark brown and with pairs of 

 inconspicuous lighter spots. Hind margins of all the tergites narrowly, but quite 

 conspicuously, light brown. Pubescence short, black, except on the lateral margins 

 of the segments, where it is whitish. Venter grejash, darker apically. 



Legs : Front coxae light brownish, tip dark ; basal half with long white hair,, 

 apical half with shorter black hair. Femora rather darker brown. Tibiae moderately 

 thickened apically, black, wdth a broad white ring which occupies almost the entire 

 basal half. Tarsi black. Middle femora light brownish ; tibiae darker, with two 

 distinct equally broad pale brown rings ; tarsi blackish, the basal two-thirds of the 

 metatarsus pale. Hind femora light brownish ; tibiae somewhat swollen, darker 

 brown, with a broad whitish ring at the base and very indistinct traces of another 

 much narrower ring towards the apex. Tarsi blackish brown ; basal three-fourths 

 of metatarsus whitish ; bases of remaining joints indistinctly pale. 



