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Legs paler, front femora broad, last femora with a group of 

 many short hairs along the posterior margin. 



Abdomen shorter than head and thorax together, with 

 sides evenly rounded, widest about midway ; last segment trun- 

 cate, bearing a fringe of fine hairs. vSecond and third segments 

 strongly angled behind, the second being acute and the third 

 more rounded ; sixth and seventh segments short ; segments 

 five to eight with backward projecting poster o-lateral angles, 

 those of the eighth being quite prominent and each bearing a 

 very long hair ; these angles on all segments before the eighth 

 bearing several short spines. Each segment bears a series of 

 hairs across the posterior margin. 



The male specimen at hand is very much smaller than 

 the female, is probably not mature, though the genitalia ap- 

 pear well developed. The head is large in proportion to the 

 rest of the body, with ocular bands and marginal occipital 

 band darker than in the female specimen ; a prominent, black 

 ocular fleck is also present. The metathorax does not extend 

 back over the abdomen as in the female, and the abdominal 

 segments are ordinary. The abdomen is small, elliptical, with 

 last segment entire, convex. The genitalia bear two well sepa- 

 rated processes. 



Measurements : 



(probably juv.), cf Leng. 1*30 mm. Width. 9 ,Iveng. 159 mm Width. 



Head -34 -47 -36 -53 



Prothorax '13 -29 '13 -34 



Metathorax '28 37 '43 -52 



Abdomen '60 "47 'So '64 



Menopon monochromateum, n. sp. 

 (Text-fig. 5.) 



One female from Garrulus lanceolatus (Simla, W. Himalayas) 

 and another from Graculus graculiis (Khambajong, Tibet). A 

 small, almost unicoloured species with unusually distinct black eye 

 flecks and evenly parabolic anterior margin of the head. 



Description of female : Ground colour of body yellowish brown , 

 with golden brown markings and pale legs and marginal regions of 

 head. Head much wider than long, semilunar, front with but 

 faint indication of a median angle, Clypeus with two fine hairs, 

 one on each side near the meson and five more, one of wdiich is 

 long, on the sides before the region of the ocular emargination. 

 Ocular emargination almost completely filled by the eye, the latter 

 with a large, distinct, black fleck. Temples narrow, rounded, 

 bearing four long hairs, three of about half the length and several 

 short spines. Occiput concave, apparently bare, with two small, 

 dark, marginal blotches. Colour pale yellowish brown marginally, 

 and darker, more golden near the centre ; ocular bands dark, curving 

 inward and forward; mandibles weak. 



