366 Records of the Indian Museum. [Voi,. Ill, 



the antennie, and situated at the extreme edge of the frons, 

 touching the eyes. Face black, with a perpLnidicular reddish stripe 

 just below the antennae, which are reddish, with the upper side a 

 little blackish. Under side and the rather bristl}^ proboscis reddish. 

 Back of head shining black. 



Thorax blackish (posterior part of dorsum injured b}^ the 

 pin), apparently four dorso-central bristles. Sternopleura grey 

 dusted only above; mesopleura shining black; scutellum blackish. 



Abdninoi shining black. vSecond segment with several strong 

 bristly hairs towards sides ; third and fourth with the usual pair 

 each, which are hardly larger than the biistly hairs wdiich are scat- 

 tered over the whole dorsum, intermixed with hairs of various 

 lengths. 



Genitalia shining brownish black; very large, conspicuous and 

 of peculiar shape, elongated, thick, with two long palp-like organs at 

 the tip; with two stifT bristles at the extreme base above, and with 

 generall)^ scattered hairs. The fourth abdominal segment is drawn 

 out below and carries a bunch of long, ciliated filaments 



Legs mainly yellow. Fore femora only slightly enlarged 

 below on basal half, where is placed a stiff long bristle, followed 

 b}' a strong spine. In the middle of the under side is another 

 strong spine followed by a much wider, shorter and slightly curved 

 one. The fore tibtcs are narrow for the basal half and then suddenly 

 widened to double their ividth. A single spine is placed on the 

 inner side of the basal half; the rest of the tibia bearing (with the 

 fore femora) short hairs, as is the case with all the legs. 



Posterior femora without spines or strong bristles, the apical 

 half mainly blackish. Posterior tibiae mainly blackish, without 

 spines, even at tips. All the tarsi blackish towards tips, with a 

 row of short, strong bristles below, intermixed on all the tarsi 

 with short, thick, golden yellow pubescence below, the hind pair 

 bearing also a pair of small spines at the base, below. 



Wings clear; inner cross-vein at onW just beyond middle of 

 discal cell 



Described from two & & ; one (now the type) is in my own 

 collection sent me by Mr. E. E. Green from Ceylon; the other was 

 in the Indian Museum collection from Calcutta, i6-vi-07, but was 

 accidentally destroyed. 



Sepsis viduata, Thoms. 

 Nemopoda formiciodes, Big., no>n. nud., in Indian Museum. 



This species is commonly distributed over the East, but 

 appears more rarely in the hills. 



lyOCS. — Sukna (E. Himalayas, 500 ft.), i-vii-o8 \Annandale]; 

 Berhampur (Bengal), i-i-08 [Lloyd]; Calcutta, 29-V-07, lo-viii — 

 31-x; Maddathorai, i8-xi-o8, and Pallode, i5-xi-o8 [Annandale]; 

 Rangoon, 25-ii-p8 [Annandale]; Margherita (Assam), Bat'avia, x-07 

 [Jacobson]. The above localities are represented in the Indian 



