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bristles ; inetaiiotum shiny black, shagreeiied over its surface ; pleurae 

 brown with irregular patches of creamy white scales, which extend 

 up to the edge of the pale areas of the mesonotum ; prothoracic 

 lobes with flat creamy white scales. 



Abdomen black with violet reflections, the first segment un- 

 handed, with very fine pale hairs, second segment with a large 

 creamy median basal spot, traces of a pale area on each side 

 near the apex, but not nearly forming a band, the third to fifth 

 segments with almost complete white bands towards the apical 

 borders; a trace of pale scales on the sixth, similar to the 

 second ; apical segment wi^h a brassy sheen and some golden 

 brown chaetce, a yellow lateral line on each segment; venter black 

 and white. 



Legs black with white basal bands ; femora black, pale 

 beneath, in the hind pair white at the base and below except at 

 the apex; a pale, almost white spot at the base of the fore meta- 

 tarsals and first two tarsi, in the mid legs the banding is slightly 

 more pronounced, especially on the metatarsi, in the hind legs all 

 the tarsi have basal white bands and the chretee are prominently 

 pale, ungues equal and simple. 



Wings with dense brown scales ; the first submarginal cell 

 longer and narrower than the second posterior cell, its base nearer 

 the base of the wing, its stem less than one-third the length of the 

 cell ; stem of the second posterior not quite as long as the cell ; 

 posterior cross- vein nearly twice its own length distant from the 

 mid; halteres with the stem grey, then fuscous and the knob 

 creamy white. 



Length 5 5 mm. 



Habitat Maddathorai, w. base of \V. Ghats, Travancore 

 {Annandale). 



Time of capture i6-xi-o8. 



Observations. — Described from a single perfect 9 . At once 

 told from any other known member of the genus by the banded 

 palpi. The abdomen is relatively long and thin. The proboscis 

 is short and thick but not so bent as in the type of the genus. 



20. Brcvirhynchus apicalis, sp. no v. 



Head ochreous with a median and two lateral black patches ; 

 proboscis and palpi black. Thorax deep golden brown scaled with 

 a pale ochreous border around the sides and front ; pleurae brown 

 with creamy patches of scales; abdomen black, with apical yellow 

 bands, show ng some faint traces of a median pale line, lateral 

 median white spots and ochreous venter. Legs brown with nar- 

 row apical pale bands. 



2 . Head with flat ochreous scales, a small median dark- 

 scaled patch in front, then a large and then a small dark-scaled 

 lateral patch, borders of the eyes ochreous, golden c\\x\^ project- 

 ing between them, brown ones at the sides; eyes coppery red ; 

 clypeus brown, palpi long and thin, black, traces of a narrow pale 



