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to discolor, V., from which it differs in having the abdomen black 

 except the narrow base and the restricted lateral spots on second 

 and third segments. It is also a little more narrowed in form. 



Euidiella unicolor, sp. nov. 



Length of body, 5-5 to 6'25 mm.; of wing, 4 to 4'5 mm. 

 Three females, Mujang, Sarawak, Borneo, July 12, iQio (C. W. 

 Beehe); Parambikuiam, Cochin State, 1,700-3,200 ft., Sept. 16-24, 

 I9I4(F. H. Gravely); andMangaldai District, N.B., Assam-Bhutan 

 Frontier, Dec. 26, 1910 (S. W. Kemp). 



Differs from quadrinotata, Big., by the still more narrowed 

 form, and the wholly dark green abdomen. The legs and anten- 

 nae are darker also. The second and third specimens mentioned 

 above have the front appreciably shorter and broader than in the 

 Bornean specimen. 



Holotype in Ind. Mus. , Sarawak. Paratype, No. 21025 U.S. 

 Nat. Mus., Assam-Bhutan Fr. 



Euidiella purpurea, sp. nov. 



Length of body, 8 to 9 mm. ; of wing, 6 to 7 mm. Three 

 males and two females : Three on board ship, 10 miles off Masuli- 

 patam, Madras Coast, June 4-5, 1908 (C. Paiva) ; one Sukna, 

 Eastern Himalayas, 500 ft., July i, 1908 {N . Annandale); and 

 one Kurseong, Eastern Himalayas, 5,000 ft., August 13-15, 1909 

 {/. T. Jenkins). 



Shining black, with greenish thorax. Parafrontalia honey- 

 combed with yellowish pollen. Parafacialia with silvery or yellow- 

 ish bar across upper end, extending over upper part of facialia, 

 and a yellowish fleck below on cheek-grooves next eye. Antennae 

 light brownish. The usual broad stripe of pale yellow pollen and 

 pile on cheeks and pleurae. Mesoscutum and scutellum metallic 

 greenish-cupreous, light golden pollinose, punctate with blackish. 

 Abdomen with decided purplish-cupreous shade on sides and cover- 

 ing whole of anal segment. Venter pollinose, with punctations. 

 Legs subf ulvous ; femora black with purplish tinge, especially front 

 ones ; tips of tarsi dusky. Wings nearly clear, base and espe- 

 cially tips smoky. Tegulae smoky-yellow. 



Holotype (male) and allotype (female) in Ind. Mus. Para- 

 types, No. 21026 U.S. Nat. Mus., male and female. 



This species is evidently similar to Idia cervina, O.S. , of 

 Amboyna. 



Metallea, Wulp. 



Genotype, Metallea notata, Wulp. — Java, (syn. Rhyncomya 

 diversicolor , Big.). 



Facial carina but little developed, flat and weak; epistoma 

 Phasia-like, not very broad, not strongly protuberant ; arista. finely 

 pubescent ; apical cell well open ; male eyes nearly contiguous, the 



