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red, which renders it superficially distinct, though close examina- 

 tion shows no structural modifications and it must be treated as a 

 mere colour variety, which I here term var. rufescens, var. nov. 



Friona didymatat Mori., sp. n. 



In the Abor collection I find a cf of this species, --which I 

 have had for some time described in MS. and now bring forward 

 from an examination of a dozen 9 $ and one cf , taken in Dehra 

 Dun and near Bhowali, Kumaon, on grass and on the wing in 

 garden, between 26th April and 26th June, 1912. in the United 

 Provinces; and of the above o' , taken at Dibrugarh about i8th 

 November, 191 1. 



A black species with stramineous markings and the black 

 hind tarsi centrally white. Extremely like F. rufipes, differing in 

 little but size and colouration : face and clypeus black with two 

 dots on the latter, and two dots below scrobes and the central 

 orbits linearl}' of the former, stramineous ; outer and genal orbits 

 not at all pale, or cf with a narrow genal line stramineous ; cf 

 with base of both face and clypeus irregularly and transversely 

 stramineous throughout ; anteradical callosities black before 

 tegulse ; mesopleurae immaculate black, and metapleural pale 

 marks of 2 very small; hind trochanters of 2 , and coxae of both 

 sexes, not infuscate; hind tarsi black with second and third joints 

 of 9 , and centre of first to base of fifth in cf , pure white. 

 Length, 9-1 1 mm. This differs from all Cameron's seven species 

 of the present genus in having the face at most centrally binota- 

 ted with stramineous in 9 and apically entirely black in cf . I 

 have seen one 9 with the face and clypeus immaculate black, in 

 another the clj'peus alone was immaculate and in a third the base 

 of the face, as in the a" , was subcontinuously stramineous. 



There are also examples from Monghyr in Bihar, Mergui in 

 lyower Burma, Calcutta and Trevandrum, in the Indian Museum. 



Friona variipes, Cam. 



Trans. Ent. Soc, 1904, p. 107. 



A female at Kobo, 400 feet, on 3rd December, 19 11. 

 Cryptus filicornis, Cam. 



Hedyci'yptusJilicoi')iis, Cam., Zeits. Hyni.-Dip., 1903, p. 299; C. himnlnyeiisis, 

 Cam., Tr. Ent. Soc, 1904, p. 106. 



With the last species, a female of this common one occurred 

 at Kobo. It is a true Cryptus (sensu Thoms ). 



