1909] E. Brunetti : New Oriental SepsincB. 345 



in the plains at low altitude, except Tenmalai which is among 

 the hills :— 



Travancore State, near coast. 

 10 miles N.E. of Trivandrum, 

 20 miles N.E. of Trivandrum. 

 12 miles N.N.E. of Quilon (Travancore), 

 West side of Western Ghats (Travancore). 

 West base of Western Ghats (Travancore). 

 Madras Frontier, east side of Western 

 Ghats (Travancore). 



Trivandrum 



Nedumangad 



Pallode 



Shasthancottah 



Tenmalai 



Maddathorai 



Shencottah 



Sepsis cynipsca, L. 



This common species, which extends over the whole of 

 Europe, North Africa and North America, probably extends also 

 over the whole of the Palsearctic region. 



The Indian Museum possesses it from the following places: 

 Simla (7,000 ft.), 11-V-08 and 16-V-09 (on the latter date common on 

 flowers of white stonecrop) ; Theog (8,000 ft.), Phagu (8,700 ft.) and 

 Matiana (8,000 ft.), Kufri (8,000 ft.), ii-v-09 I Dharampur (5,000 ft.), 

 28-iv — 3-V-08, and also again at Theog and Phagu, 11 — 13-V-09 (all 

 Annandale, and all these places in the Simla District). Naini Tal (6 — 

 7,000 ft.) [Lloyd]; also taken by the Indian Museum collector at 

 Unchagaon, 7-iv-09, Bindukhera, 13-V-09 ; Kichha, 4-iv-09, these all 

 in the Naini Tal District but in the plains ; Kumaon (Naini Tal 

 District, 6,000 ft.), 5-vi-09 ; Darjiling (6,000 ft.), 28-ix — i-x-08 

 [Brunetti]] Noalpur, Nepal, 23-ii-o8 ; Bhachkati, Bahraich District 

 (United Provinces, India). This latter place is near the base of the 

 Western Himalayas. I have also examined a cf and 9 taken in 

 April on Paresnath Hill, Western Bengal, by Dr. Annandale, at a 

 height of 4,350 feet. Paresnath Hill is separated by about 200 miles 

 from the hills of Nepal, the nearest point in the Himalayas. It will 

 be seen that the specimens examined by me are nearly all from 

 localities of some altitude, except the few from the plains in the 

 Naini Tal District. I think it probable that in the East it is 

 practically a hill species, but occurs sparingly at the base of the 

 hills, or on isolated elevated localities in their vicinity. 



Sepsis himalayensis, mihi, sp. nov. 

 (Plate xiii, figs, r, 2.) 



cf 9 . Darjiling. Long. 2^ — 4 mm. 



Head — Frons shining blue-black, bare ; ocelli red, equidis- 

 tant, gather widely separated, with two strong, diverging bristles 

 situated between them. A row of four equidistant bristles along 

 the vertex, reaching from eye to eye, and some bristles of different 

 lengths on the back of the head, which is black. Face, cheeks 

 and mouth border red, varying to reddish brown and to reddish 

 yellow, with a longitudinal row of strong bristles on each side of the 



