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sub- triangular brownish spot towards each side in front of the suture, 

 and a similar but larger and longer spot behind the suture each 

 side. The macrochsetse of the thorax are practically' the same as in 

 niinuta, but the very small bristles covering nearly the whole surface 

 are relatively larger than in the previous species. The large bristles 

 are brownish yellow, the smaller ones blackish. Sides of thorax ash- 

 grey or with a bluish tinge, mesopleura with a row of long yellow 

 bristles on hinder side, as in minuta, and smaller ones in front; 

 sternopleura with numerous bristly hairs, and a row of curved 

 yellow long hairs below humeral calli. 



Scutellum concolorous with thorax, macrochaetse as in niiuuta, 

 but the smaller bristly hairs more numerous and much stronger. 

 Metanotum blackish grey, bare. 



Abdomen. Rather dark gre}', lighter at base, where a distinct 

 blackish dorsal narrow stripe extends over the ist segment to some 

 portion of the 2nd. The whole surface of the abdomen is covered 

 with short hairs, and there is a row of well-separated long curved ones 

 towards the posterior border of each segment, and a fan-shaped 

 bunch of yellow ones towards each side of the ist segment ; all the 

 other hairs and bristles on the abdomen being distinctly brownish 

 or brownish yellow. Belly concolorous, pubescent. 



Legs. Mainly yellow, coxae bluish ash-grey or yellowish grey, 

 femora except base and tip often more or less lighth' violet-grey 

 tinted, sometimes almost wholly 5'ellow. All the femora bear 

 rows of rather long soft yellow hairs, the fore pair have a row of 

 longer bristly hairs on upper side and a row of still longer ones on 

 under side ; middle pair with two stronger bristles on upper side, 

 near tip ; hind pair with three stronger ones below, near tip. 

 Tibiae, which are sometimes a little brownish, closely pubescent, with 

 comparatively short bristly, yellow hairs, along bristle in front at 

 tip of fore pair, some short stiff bristles at tip of middle pair, and a 

 long bristle on hinder side near tip of hind pair which are darker 

 than the others. Tarsi mainly blackish, bristly, pubescent ; meta- 

 tarsus and bases and tips of the remaining joints more or less 

 yellowish. Second and 3rd tarsal joints (ind') distinctly dilated at 

 tip, each with 3 or 4 long curved hairs on under side, and generally 

 all the joints with one straight hair and one longer curved one on 

 the upper side at the tip. Pulvilli whitish, grey fringed claws black. 



Wings. As in minuta. 



Described from a good series of both sexes taken in the slaughter- 

 house in Calcutta, 6 — 31-viii-OQ. Also from several of each sex 

 from Travancore State, South India, captured by Dr. Annandale 

 as follows : Nedumangad i4-xi-o8 ; Ouilon io-xi-08 ; ^laddathorai 

 i7-xi-o8 ; Pallode i5-xi-o8, nearly all on cattle and buffaloes. Also 

 from specimens from Sukna (500 ft.), 3-viii-o8 [Annandale^ ; Chitta- 

 gong (B. Bengal), 2-viii-o8 and 3-ix-o8 [Lt.-Col. Hall]. All the above 

 specimens are in the Indian ]\Iuseum collection. Two 2 $ in the Pusa 

 collection were taken at Bombay on cattle, 29-v and 16-X-05, and 

 I have a considerable number of both sexes in my own collection 

 from Calcutta and \\'est Java. 



