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In Indian Museum, males and females from Calcutta; and 

 Goalbathan, E Bengal. 



In Hewlett coll , a series of females from Gorakhpur^ United 

 Provinces; and from Belgatchia, Bengal, " on cow." 



A species distinguished by its testaceous legs with no darker 

 bands, or base of fore tibiae lighter, and b}^ the absence of any 

 spots on the face. 



The female is long, slender, greyish lirown, the abdomen 

 marked with a median grey stripe and with lateral grey spots on 

 each segment. Antennae yellow, long, the first joint nearly as long 

 as the third one which is blackish at apex. Forehead with the usual 

 paired spots, no unpaired spot present. Frontal callus yellow- 

 ish, transverse. Wings viewed from the base usually appear 

 pale in the basal cells and in the basal portions of the discal, first 

 posterior and submarginal cells, elsewhere greyish brown, with 

 three rosettes distinct, the apical band simple, short, a row of 

 short whitish disconnected bands run from it round posterior 

 border of wing. 



The males are more reddish yellow on the abdomen, the 

 first joint of antennae short, stout. 



Length of males 9 — 11 mm., of females 8J — 11 mm. 



2 . Face greyish with some short white pubescence, the 

 fovea alone appearing darker. Palpi pale ^^ellow with black 

 pubescence, stout, ending in an obtuse point. A ntcnnae reddish yel- 

 low, the first joint yellowish cylindrical, slighth^ incrassate, 

 barely as long as the third joint, the second joint very small, yel- 

 low, both the two first joints with black pubescence, the third 

 joint slender reddish, blackish on the annulated apex. Forehead 

 same colour as face or a shade darker, with some white pubes- 

 cence, broad, hardl}- narrower at vertex, the frontal callus red- 

 dish 3^ellow, shining, reaching the eyes, produced to a short point in 

 the middle of its upper border, a narrow spot proceeds from its 

 lower border to between the antennae, the paired spots blackish, 

 not touching eyes. Thorax blackish brown with three grey stripes 

 and sides grey , the scant}' pubescence consists of short greyish 

 yellow hairs : scutellum blackish brown , largely covered with greyish 

 tomentum. Breast greyish. ^6^o;wg;i blackish brown or brownish, 

 with a distinct ashy gre^^ median stripe, and grey roundish spots 

 on each segment not reaching the anterior or posterior border, 

 these markings are only distinct in well-preserved specimens, the 

 pubescence chiefly consists of very fine short yellowish hairs, 

 under side uniformly greyish. Legs reddish yellow, coxae greyish, 

 base of femora sometimes darker, tibiae not incrassate or hardly so. 

 Wings gre3dsh, paler at base and at base of submarginal, first pos- 

 terior and discal cell, though not always very distinctly so, the 

 stigma and veins yellow, an appendix present on fork of third 

 longitudinal vein, the two upper rosettes distinct, the third small, 

 its outer ring incomplete, continued from above across the anal 

 cell into the axillary lobe of wing, reaching the border, the short 

 pale bands begin from the anal cell and continue round the border 



