3 6 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vor,. IV, 



side, another short one over the roots of the wings and two indis- 

 tinct median pale lines in front, each with a central dark line. 

 Abdomen deep brown, with basal grey bands, two gre}' median 

 spots to the segments, almost joining on to the bands, sixth to 

 eighth segments with many scattered ochreous scales; venter 

 bright ochreous with scattered pale scales. Legs dark, minutely 

 banded, apically and basally on the tarsi, the femora and tibiae 

 with a pale creamy ventral line. Wings with the subcostal vein 

 pale-scaled. 



$ . Head dark, clothed with rather large narrow-curved 

 creamy scales and flat creamy lateral ones and dark chsetse in 

 front; upright forked scales dark, a few pale ones in front; cl}'- 

 peus brown with gre^^ sheen ; palpi brown with creamy scales at 

 the apex and some nearer the base; proboscis dark at base and 

 apex, the median creamy area with some scattered dark scales; 

 antennae dark brown, base of the second segment bright testa- 

 ceous. Thorax dark brown clothed with rich brown narrow-curved 

 scales ; a pale-scaled twice curved line on each side and a pale- 

 scaled short line on each side in front and over the roots of the 

 wings; in middle (in front) are traces of two parallel narrow dark 

 lines with somewhat paler scales on each side ; supra and pre- 

 alar chsetse brown with pale apices, the supra-alar long and darker 

 than the others; scutellum pale brown with narrow-curved pale 

 scales and long brown posterior border bristles; the scales at the 

 back of the mesonotum are similar in colour to those of the scutel- 

 lum; metanotum bright brown; pleurae brown with patches of 

 pale scales. 



Abdomen with the basal segment ochreous with pale scales, 

 the second to fifth segments dark with grey basal bands which 

 spread out in the middle and with two ochreous spots nearly touch- 

 ing them, most pronounced on the fourth and fifth segments, the 

 sixth with many ochreous scales dotted over the dark area, the 

 seventh and eighth almost entirely ochreous ; posterior border 

 bristles thin and pale golden ; venter bright ochreous-yellow with 

 pale scales, a few dusky ones in the mid region. 



Legs rather long, dark, femora and tibise pale below, those of 

 the fore and mid legs with a pale-scaled line in addition ; faint 

 traces of very narrow apical and basal pale banding to the hind 

 tibiae, metatarsi and tarsi, scarcely perceptible on the fore and 

 mid legs; bases of the legs pallid; femora and tibis slighth* spinose, 

 pallid ; ungues equal and simple. 



Wings with brown scales, a few creani}^ ones at the base of 

 the costa and on all the subcostal vein and a few pale scales on the 

 first long vein ; first submarginal cell much longer and narrower 

 than the second posterior cell, its base much nearer the base of the 

 wing, its stem about one-third the length of the cell, stem of the 

 second posterior nearly as long as the cell, posterior cross-vein not 

 quite its own length distant from the mid cross-vein, 



Halteres ochreous with some fuscous scales on the knob. 



Length 6 mm. 



