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3'ellowish tinge, brownish scales and a pale spot towards the tip 

 on the costa. 



9 . Head brown, clothed with pale cream}- and ochreous nar- 

 row-curved scales and broadly expanded black upright forked 

 scales, paler in the middle of the head, chaetae brown and pale 

 ochreous ; clypeus ochreous ; palpi black-scaled with some 

 ochreous scales and creamy scaled apices ; proboscis with a very 

 broad ochreous pale band , base and apex black ; antennae brown 

 towards the apices, testaceous towards the base. 



Thorax deep brown, clothed with creamy and brown narrow- 

 curved scales, some paler before the roots of the wings, giving 

 it a mot led appearance; some short thick black chaettTe just be- 

 fore the roots of the wings, long brown and ochreous ones over 

 the roots and behind them ; scutellum brown, with small narrow 

 pale scales and golden brown long border bristles ; metanotum 

 pale ochreous with a grey sheen; pleurae brown and ochreous 

 with patches of flat pale scales and golden hairs. 



Abdomen brown with violet reflections, basal segment golden 

 ochreous with two small dark patches of scales ; the remaining 

 segments with narrow basal and ver\^ broad apical bright golden 

 ochreous bands, except the last segment which has two promi- 

 nent black spots ; the other segments have more or less marked 

 thin black lateral lines, except on the last two or three apical seg- 

 ments where there are pale creamy lateral spots ; venter ochreous- 

 yellow. Legs ochreous with scattered dark scales, prominent at 

 the apices of the femora and tibiae and on their upper surfaces ; 

 tarsi slightly darker with apical and basal pale bands except on 

 the last tarsal ; ungues equal and simple. 



Wings with brown scales, a pale ochreous spot towards the tip 

 on the costa and first long vein ; the first submarginal cell longer 

 and narrower than the second posterior, its base slightly nearer 

 the base of the wing, its stem nearh' one-fourth the length of the 

 cell ; stem of the second posterior not quite half the length of the 

 cell ; posterior cross-vein about twice its own length distant from 

 the mid. Halteres pale ochreous, with some small flat pale 

 ochreous scales on the knob. 



Length 5-5 mm. 



Habitat Bhogaon, Purneah district, N. Bengal {C. Paiva). 



Time of capture 2-X-08. 



Observations. — Described from a single perfect female. The 

 very bright and marked abdominal banding will at once separate 

 this from other Tceniorhynchi , together with the marbled thorax 



50. Tceniorhynchus luteoabdominalis , sp. nov. 



Thorax brown, marbled with bright yellowish brown and grey 

 scales on the front two- thirds, the rest bright brown-scaled, the 

 pale scales most prominent on the posterior edge of the brown and 

 pale-scaled area, also traces of a dark curved lateral line on each 

 side before the wings. Head yellowish brown, slightly darkened 



