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at the sides, pale around the eyes; proboscis with a broad pale 

 band, slighth- darkened at the base and apex. Abdomen entireh* 

 clothed with golden ochreous scales. Legs unbanded, ochreous 

 with slightly darkened tarsi. Wings with yellowish brown scales, 

 the apex paler above. 



2 . Head brown, clothed with narrow-curved pale scales, 

 especially around the eye border, bright ochreous upright forked 

 scales in the middle, darker ones at the sides ; small flat pale lat- 

 eral scales; clypeus brown; palpi clothed with brown scales, a few 

 pale ones dotted about and many at the apex ; proboscis with a 

 broad pale band, the dark base and apex with a few scattered pale 

 scales; antennae brown, basal half graduall}^ becoming bright 

 testaceous. Thorax brown, the front two- thirds mainh^ clothed 

 with very pale grey narrow-curved scales, particularly prominent 

 on the posterior border of this region, two ochreous-ljrown-scaled 

 spots in front amongst the pale scales and a somewhat nude dark 

 curved line on each side in front of the roots of the wings, the 

 hinder region of the mesothorax with mostly golden brown narrow- 

 curved scales, but some pale ones arranged in lines; two promi- 

 nent lines of rich golden brown chsetse behind and similar coloured 

 chsetse over the roots of the wings ; scutellum pale ochreous with 

 small narrow-curved pale scales and nine bright golden brown 

 posterior border bristles to the mid lobe ; metanotum brown ; 

 pleurae brown and bright ochreous with some patches of small dull 

 creamy flat scales. 



Abdomen clothed with bright golden ochreous scales, the 

 second, third and fourth segments with a band towards their bases 

 of similar coloured scales, darker at their apices, not forming dis- 

 tinct bands, last segment with two median lateral dark spots; 

 venter all golden ochraceous, also the whole of the first segment 

 which has many pale golden thin hairs ; posterior border bristles 

 pale golden. 



Legs uniformly ochreous but with some dark scattered scales 

 on the femora, with very pale reflections, no trace of banding; 

 ungues equal and simple. 



Wings with yellowish brown scales, the outer part of the apex 

 slightly pale-scaled ; first submarginal cell longer and narrower than 

 the second posterior cell, its base nearer the base of the wing, its 

 stem not quite half the length of the cell, stem of the second pos- 

 terior nearly two-thirds the length of the cell ; posterior cross- vein 

 about twice its own length distant from the mid ; halteres very 

 pale ochreous, almost cream}' white, 



Length 5-8 mm. 



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



Time of capture 4 or 5-X-08. 



Observations. — Described from a single perfect $ . It comes 

 very near Tceniorhynchus epidesmus , described previously, but the 

 total absence of leg banding, the more marked thoracic ornamenta- 

 tion and more marked pale wing spot separate it probably from 

 that species. If it is the same it is a most marked variety. 



