30 Records of the Indian Museum. [Voh. IV, 



Abdomen jet-black with snowy white basal bands and on 

 some of the segments two small white median spots ; venter black 

 with basal w'hite bands and all the bristles golden. 



Legs black, femora and tibiae speckled with pale creamy 

 scales, fore legs unhanded, but the apex of the tibiae white; mid 

 legs with two pale bands involving the joints of the metatarsal 

 and first tarsal, and first and second tarsals; hind legs with a 

 narrow band involving the metatarsal and first tarsal joint, a 

 very broad one involving the first and second tarsal joint, a nar- 

 rower one the second and third, apex of third white and all the 

 fourth. 



Wings with black scales over most of the veins but with 

 white spots as follows : — four large ones on the costa and three small 

 basal ones; the first two spread on to the first and second veins, 

 the third on to the first, second, third and fourth, the fourth on to 

 the first and second, the basal ones small and irregular, there is also 

 a spot on the first between the third and fourth costal spots, one 

 on the base of the second fork-cell and at the tips of the branches, 

 one at the apex and another near the base of the outer branch of 

 the fifth and one at its base, and a small one just past the cross- 

 vein on the fourth. Halteres all pale. Fork-cells rather short, 

 the first narrower and about the same length as the second, its 

 stem about half as long again as the cell ; stem of the second as 

 long as the cell; cross- veins pale, the posterior about twice its own 

 length distant from the mid. 



Length 5 mm. 



Habitat Maddathorai, w. base of W. Ghats, Travancore 

 (Annandale). 



Time of capture i7-xi-o8. 



Observations. — Described from a single & , taken resting on a 

 tree trunk in jungle. A very marked and beautiful species near 

 0. albipes, Theobald, but easily told by having only the last hind 

 tarsal white. 



59. Mimoniyia niinuta Theobald. (Pis. i and iii, wing and wing 



scales.) 



Rec. Ind. Mus., ii, p. 301 {cf ), 1908. 



Thorax shiny brown ; head pale creamy yellow ; abdomen 

 brown with basal pale yellow bands spreading out laterally. 

 Legs with apical and basal pale banding ; last hind tarsal pale 

 creamy. 



9 . Head clothed with flat pale creamy scales and some black 

 upright forked ones at the back; two long pale chaetae projecting 

 forwards in the middle in front and some dark incurved ones at 

 the sides ; antennae deep brown, basal segment black. 



Thorax shiny black, with scattered long curved black scales 

 and very long black chaetae ; scutellum shiny black with long 

 curved black scales and black border bristles ; metanotum black ; 

 pleurae ochreous. 



