1909.J H. Brunetti : New Oriental Sepsince, 353 



Wings clear; spot fairly well defined, but without clear-cut 

 edges brownish, oval. Inner cross-vein at just beyond middle of 

 discal cell. 



Described from a single $ in the ndian Museum collection, 

 labelled Bhogaon (West Bengal), 6-X-08 IPaiva]. 



N.B. — Several specimens of both sexes in the above collec- 

 tion may represent varieties of this species, or further additional 

 ones. 



Sepsis tincta, mihi, sp. nov. 

 (Plate xiii, figs, 6, 7.) 



cf 9 . India. Long. 2J — 2^ mm. 



Head. — Frons shining black. Face, mouth, proboscis, lower 

 part of head and lower part of ocular orbit, reddish yellow to 

 reddish brown, the colour often extending to just above the an- 

 tennae, which are reddish yellow to reddish grey, the basal part 

 and the upper side of third joint more or less blackish. 



Thorax blackish, shining, no tinge of any other colour. Four 

 conspicuous dorso-central bristles. Sternopleura shining black. 



Abdomen shining black. The second segment (which some- 

 times is faintly pale at sides or on posterior border) is barely 

 humped up in the o^ , as in most species. Moreover it is some- 

 what attenuated in the cf , and the whole abdomen in this sex is 

 somewhat narrower than usual. There are in one specimen two 

 or three rather small spiny bristles on the fourth and fifth segments, 

 but in the remainder they are absent, although some of the 

 bristly hairs occurring in the spots where the spines usually occur, 

 are somewhat longer than those scattered over the entire abdomen. 

 Practically it is a species bare of abdominal spiny bristles. 

 Genitalia very large and conspicuous in the o* , triangular in 

 shape, shining black; in the $ very small and pointed, or with- 

 drawn. 



Legs. — Coxae yellow, fore pair wholly so, paler; posterior 

 coxse reddish yellow, blackish on basal portion. 



Fore femora reddish yellow, with upper side more or less 

 blackish, the variation in colour being considerable. On the 

 under side is an enlargement (narrowing towards and at the tip), 

 which bears two large spines, with a smaller one between them, 

 also, just beyond (on a small elevation) two small spines. There 

 are two or three bristles at the base. 



Fore tibia ( o" ) narrow on basal half, with a row of short spines 

 on inner side, extending nearly to the middle, where, to the end, 

 the tibia suddenly widens considerably, but is bare; in the 9 the 

 difference in width is inconspicuous, the tibia gradually widening. 

 Posterior femora and tibiae black, the farmer always narrowly 

 pale at base, the middle tibiae slightly pale at tips. Knees rarely, 

 narrowly pale. 



The femora are apparently bare of spiny bristles, the middle 

 tibiae bear two in the middle (outside and behind), with some at 



