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28. Pseudocarrollia lophoventralis, sp. nov. 



Head black, a white border to eyes, eyes silvery above; pro- 

 boscis and palpi jet-black; thorax with the front bright silvery 

 white, also the scutellum, the posterior half of the mesonotum 

 rich brown ; pleurae with silvery white puncta. Abdomen black 

 with a dull greenish tinge, basal lateral snow-white spots and 

 basal white ventral bands, and ventral black scale tufts. Legs 

 banded with white, base and apex of metatarsi white, also base of 

 the front and hind first tarsal, base and apex of the mid; femora 

 white at base and with a white apical spot on hind pair. 



$ . Head black, clothed with fiat black scales and a narrow 

 border of spindle-shaped white ones around the eyes; narrow 

 black upright forked scales and black chaetse projecting forwards; 

 clypeus, palpi, antennae and proboscis all deep black ; eyes silvery 

 around the edges, black in the centre. 



Thorax black, clothed on the front half with dense long nar- 

 row-curved snow3' white scales, not quite extending to the pleurae 

 on each side, forming more of a large round patch, remainder of 

 mesonotum with rich bronzy scales except for a few snovv}^ white 

 ones over the roots of the wings ; supra-alar chaetae long and black ; 

 scutellum black, thickly clothed with snow}- white flat scales and 

 golden border bristles; pleurae rich brown, with six or seven white 

 spots ; metanotum black. 



Abdomen black, with the scales black, showing in some lights 

 green and peacock-blue reflections, the green mainly at the tips of 

 the scales; the segments with prominent basal lateral snow-white 

 spots, six on each side, last segment small, basally white; poster- 

 ior border bristles pale ; venter black with snow-white basal 

 bands, the fifth to the seventh segments with dense black out- 

 standing scales, giving a tufted appearance. Legs black with 

 white bands ; front legs with apex of tibiae an 1 metatarsi white, 

 and base of first tarsal ; mid legs with femora white at the base 

 ventrally, a small white apical spot, a white spot at the apex of 

 tibiae, a white band at base and apex of metatarsi, also base and 

 apex of first tarsal and a trace at the base of the second tarsal ; 

 in the hind legs the base of the femora are snowy white and there 

 is a large white apical band and the base and apex of the meta- 

 tarsi banded white, also base of first tarsal; leg bristles black; 

 fore and mid ungues uniserrate, hind simple. 



Wings with short fork-cells, the first submarginal narrow but 

 no longer than the second posterior, its stem more than half the 

 length of the cell ; stem of the second posterior also more than 

 half the length of the cell ; posterior cross-vein about twice its own 

 length distant from the mid, the latter and the supernumerary are 

 in a straight line ; scales brown, rather dense on the branches 

 of the fork-cells Halteres with testaceous stems and fuscous 

 knobs. 



Length 5-5 mm. 



Habitat Purneah, N. Bengal (C. Paiva). 



