hymi;nobos:mixa. 



441 



330. Hymenobosmina pilosella, ('am. 



Neobosmiiia piloselht, Cameron,* J'^ntoiii. IHOG, p. ^-lO {S)- 



cS . A black species, witli the legs partly pale. Head dull, 

 closely and finely punctate, witli dense long silvery pubescence ; 

 mandibles (except apically), and palpi, stramineous; frons finely, 

 closely, and ii'regularly striate in the centre. Antennce with dense 



short black pubescence ; the scape 

 testaceous beneath. Thorax with 

 dense long silvery hairs, closely and 

 regularly punctate ; meta thorax 

 more strongly punctate ; ai-eola fully 

 twice as long as broad, truncate, of 

 equal width at both extremities and 

 slightly wider in the middle, finely 

 reticulate, with its base glabrous and 

 the basal carina stronger than the 

 apical ; spiracular ixvex finely and 

 obliquely striate beyond the spiracles ; 

 petiolar area stoutly cariuate, longer 

 than broad, more strongly trans- 

 stnate, especially in the centre of 

 its broad apex. Abdomen black, with 

 the four apical segments laterally, and the apices of the third and 

 fourth broadly above, ferruginous. Ler/s testaceous, Avith the 

 anterior femora rufescent and their coxae black ; hind legs black, 

 with the tibiaB broadly mfescent centrally beneath and the calcaria 

 dark testaceous. Wiii^s with the tegula^ stramineous, stigma and 

 nervures black. 

 Length S millim. 



The black markings on the legs are variable in extent, and the 

 intermediate legs are somewhat darker than the front ones. This 

 species dift'ers from H. mandilndarls in having the petiolar area 

 apically broad, the areola not basally acuminate, and the hind 

 femora and tibia), except the latter centrally beneatli, black. 



PuxjAB : Simla, ix. 98 {Col. Nurse); Bengal: Chapra {Mac- 

 Icenzie), Pusa, iii. 07 (Pusa coll.) ; Cetlon : Kandy, ix. 09 (0. /S. 

 Wichivar). 



Type iu Col. Nurse's collection. 



In addition to the type and cotype, I have seen three other 

 males, differing in no way whatever, exce])t in the possession of 

 a small and elongately petiolate areolet. 



Fig. 12a. 

 Hy ineiv'hosmina piloscUa, Cam. 



331. Hymenobosmina mandibularis, Cam. 



liotmima mundihularis, ( 'aiiu-ron, Zeiis. IIviii. - Dipt. 190.'», 



p. a;5H(c?). 



d" . A black species, with the abdomen mainly ferruginous. 

 Head with, dense silvery pubescence; mandibles (except at apex 



