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intermediate and posterior tarsi fuscous ; wings subfuscous, 

 nervures fuscous. Abdomen ferruginous, the basal segment black. 

 " Hah. India (coll. W. ^Y. Saunders)." 



347. Ceropales flavo-picta, Smith, Cat. iii, p. 178, c? ; Cam. Mem. 

 Manch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) iv, 1891, p. 434. 



" S • Length 6 lines " (13 mm.). " Head yellow, having a ferru- 

 ginous stain on the vertex and a fuscous spot before the ocelli ; 

 the autennse ferruginous, their apex fuscous above ; tips of the 

 mandibles ferruginous. Thorax beneath and also the sides black ; 

 above reddish yellow ; the anterior margin of the prothorax and 

 a stripe passing over the tegulae fuscous ; the lateral margins of 

 the metathorax fuscous ; wings yellow, their extreme apex slightly 

 fuscous ; the legs pale ferruginous, the coxae and trochanters 

 fuscous. Abdomen I'eddish-yellow, the apical margins of the 

 segments having rufo-fuscous fasciae. 



" Hah. India (coll. W. W. Saunders)*." 



*348. Ceropales annulitarsis, Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) iv, 

 1891, p. 434. 



(5" . " Yellow, a stripe across the vertex behind the eyes, a broad 

 one leading down from it on the front, with a small yellow mark 

 on its centre, a broad band in front of the pronotum, from which 

 an oblique one runs up the pleurae, the mesonotum except along 

 the sides, and a large squarish mark in the centre, this latter 

 having a large black triangular mark in the centre, the mesonotum, 

 a large oblique mark on the base of the mesopleuraj, the base of 

 the scutellum, and the metanotum black ; the greater part of the 

 meso- and metapleurae and the median segment reddish. Abdomen 

 yellow, the 1st segment black at base and apex, the centre reddish ; 

 the 2nd segment black and red at apex, the 3rd broadly black ; 

 the 4th black at the apex, the black in the middle being continued 

 to the base of the segment ; the 5th black at the base, the black 

 being continued in the middle to the apex ; the ventral segments 

 broadly black. Legs ferruginous ; the coxae yellow and red, the 

 trochanters blackish, the apex of the hinder tibiae and of the four 

 hinder tarsal joints black. Wings yellowish hyaline, the apex of 

 both wings infuscated ; the 2nd cellule (cubital ?) at the top and 

 bottom longer than the 3rd ; the 2ud and 3rd transverse cubital 

 nervures elbowed at the middle, thus narrowing the 2nd cubital 

 cellule at the top ; the 1st recurrent uervure is received in the 

 apical third, the 2nd a httle before the middle. Antenna} ferru- 

 ginous, longish, the joints curved ; the 3rd and 4th joints subequal. 

 Apex of clypeus bluiitly rounded, the sides rounded. Head, 

 pronotum, and median segments bearing long white hairs. 



" Long 14 mm. 



"Hah. Poona." 



* Whilst these pages have been passing through the press, I have, through 

 the kindness of Prof. Poulton, been able to exumiiio the types uf C. orjiata, 

 C. fusiforrnis, and 6'. Jlavo-picla, all now in the Hope Museum, Oxford. 



