1909.] E. Brunetti : New Oriental Sepsince. 351 



taken by me the same day at Shanghai, and which I dubiously 

 refer to punclum, F., may possibly be the & of violacea, as I have 

 never seen that sex of this species, and two other cf cf taken with 

 them (now in the Indian Museum) more nearly approximate to 

 what I should expect violacea, cf to be like. I have never seen 

 a cf violacea or a 9 punctum. 



Sepsis flava, mihi, sp. nov 

 (Plate xiii, figs. 4, 5.) 



cf . India. lyong. 2 — 3 mm. 



Head. — Frons, face, back of head, proboscis, mouth, under 

 side of head and antennae wholly orange-yellow. Upper side of 

 antennae sometimes a little darker, and there is sometimes a 

 blackish irregular line across the back of the head, just below the 

 vertex. 



The ocelli are placed on three small black spots, between 

 which emerge two bristles. Three pairs of bristles occur along the 

 vertex, one in the centre, and one bahind the corner of each e^'e. 



Thorax normally entirely orange-3^ello\v, sometimes an irregu- 

 lar darker part or streak or two on dorsum. Four dorso-central 

 bristles. Scutellum concolorous, a stiff bristle near fore border in 

 front of each spine. 



Abdomen reddish orange ; the extreme base, the posterior 

 border of second segment, and more or less of the third and fourth 

 segments, blackish. Tip of abdomen, orange-yellow. The black 

 colour varies considerably in intensity and extent, sometimes 

 being reduced to the posterior half of the third segment, with a 

 little on the fourth and fifth, and sometimes covering all the abdo- 

 men except the basal half of the second and the abdomen tip. The 

 whole abdomen is covered with scattered, stiff hairs, including a 

 more or less regular row near the posterior border of each seg- 

 ment. These are much longer than in any of my previously des- 

 cribed species, and are almost as long as the usual pairs of spiny 

 bristles towards the sides of the second to the fifth segments. Geni- 

 talia large and conspicuous, orange-yellow, with stiff hairs. 



Legs.— Vront pair entirely yellow, with soft hairs; femora 

 with a .arge enlargement on basal half below, bearing five or six 

 black spines of different lengths; tibiee widened on apical half, 

 this half being contracted in the middle and bare, whilst the basal 

 half bears a row of short stout spines Posterior legs yellow, 

 with soft black pubescence; the basal half of the tibiae and to- 

 wards the tarsi tips, more or less brownish. Middle femora with 

 a few spiny bristles below, about the middle; the hind pair with 

 a bristle or two, apparently irregularly placed. Middle tibiae with 

 a row of spines behind, one on the outer side in the middle and a 

 few at the tip. Hind tibiae with a few on the apical half, irregu- 

 larly placed on the outer and hinder sides. All the tarsi with short 



