1^2 Records of the Indian Museum, [Voi,. VIII, 



Thorax.— Brovjmsh yellow, with four well- separated very thin 

 black lines which fade away at or just behind the middle of the 

 dorsurn; pleurae a little lighter. Bristles (mostly damaged) 

 comprise at least one post-humeral, one mesopleural (notopleural ?), 

 one supra-alar and one or two dorso-central ; there being a row of 

 four near the posterior margin of the dorsum. Scutellum and 

 metanotum brownish yellow, former rather elongate, with bristles 

 beyond the base each side, and an apical pair. 



Abdomen. — Brownish yellow, ist segment paler; segments to- 

 wards sides, especially on apical half of abdomen, more or less brown 

 or blackish brown ; sometimes a small round black spot each side 

 on dorsum of penultimate segment. Belly brownish yellow. The 

 colour of the whole abdomen varies in shade in individual specimens. 

 The 9 ( ? ) has a long thick conical bisected process curled under 

 its belly. 



Legs. — All brownish yellow, minutely pubescent, tarsi darker. 



Wings. — Distinctly brownish yellow, unmarked; venation in 

 conformity with Hendel's figure (Gen. Ins. Fasc. 68, pi. I, fig. ii); 

 haltereres pale yellowish. 



Described from four specimens, Sadiya, 23 — 28-xi-ii. 



Stcnopterina flavofcmorata, mihi, sp. nov. 



cf N.E. Assam. Long. 7 mm. 



Head. — Frons less than one-third of the head, blackish; face 

 blackish, dull brownish yellow about the cheeks and immediately 

 below the antennae ; of the latter, the two basal joints are dull 

 brownish yellow, the 3rd ])lackish grey with microscopic grey 

 dust, the arista yellowish and minutely pubescent at base, the 

 remainder being black and bare. Back of head black, slightly 

 shining, a little grey-dusted around the eyes, both narrowly on 

 the frons and on their hinder margin. Proboscis rather bulky, 

 brownish yellow, blackish in parts. A pair of median converging, 

 and a pair of outer diverging vertical bristles; (frontal bristles 

 broken off). 



r/iomA;. —Dorsum dull aenous green, with a pair of obvious 

 but not very distinct, approximated, moderately narrow grey 

 stripes from anterior margin to near po.sterior border; shoulders 

 bluish violet tinged. vSides dull aenous green, the hinder part of 

 the sternopleura blackish with miscroscopic grey dust ; scutellum 

 and metanotum dull aenous green, former with the two normal 

 pairs of bristles. 



Abdomen. — Ground colour black, with, when viewed from 

 certain directions, a dark violet tinge; covered with miscroscopic 

 yellowish grey hairs. 



Legs. — Coxae blackish grey, a little grej^-dusted, brownish 

 yellow at tips; femora wholly brownish 3^ellow except for a small 

 (possibly variable) blackish streak on underside of hinder pair; 

 tibiae and tarsi all black, underside of hind tarsi with minute 

 gok]( n yellow pub-.^scence. 



