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of wing to the apical band which is smaU and often inconspicuous, 

 crossing the anterior branch of third longitudinal vein, but not 

 always reaching the second longitudinal vein. 



& . Similar, but the abdomen is largely reddish yellow, darker 

 at apex. Eyes with the large facets occupying two-thirds of sur- 

 face, coppery coloured, the basal small facets blackish. Face more 

 hairy. Palpi pale whitish yellow. Antennae with the first joint 

 incrassate only about half as long as the third. Frontal triangle 

 with small yellowish callus, the spot between the antennae brown. 

 Hind tibiae fringed with black hairs on each side. Foie tibiae 

 more filiform than in female. 



Haematopota limbata, Bigot. 



Bull. vSoc. Zool. France, xvi, p. y8 (1891) ; id., Mem. vSoc. Zool. 

 France, v, p. 626 (1892) ; Ricardo, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), xviii, 

 p. 115 (1906). 



Antennae, palpi and proboscis dull fawn coloured ; beard grey; 

 face whitish below, above dark shining chestnut ; forehead 

 whitish with two side black spots ; the first segment of antennae 

 hardl}' incrassate ; thorax dull reddish ; the dorsum with four 

 diffuse blackish stripes, scutellum blackish, sii^es whitish with 

 hairs of the same colour (or, in the Latin, pleurae ash}' grey) ; 

 abdomen bro\vnish (in Latin, chestnut coloured) with a wide dor- 

 sal stripe ver}^ regular and greyish white, all the segments narrowly 

 bordered with yellow, with a lateral blackish spot ; pleurae 

 and hal teres pale fawn coloured ; legs uniformly pale fawn coloured ; 

 wings very pale yellow, the stigma narrow, reddish, and all the 

 veins bordered with a pale reddish colour, some indistinct very 

 pale white markings. India: one specimen, 5 , 11 mm. Bigot, 

 Mem. Soc. Zool. France, v, p. 626. 



The author in his first notice of the species in his table for 

 Haematopota in Bull. Soc. Zool. France, xvi, p. 78, describes the 

 antennae as almost entirely yellowish, abdomen chestnut coloured 

 with a wide whitish dorsal stripe ; wings yellowish with pale indis- 

 tinct spots. 



From the type kindly lent me by Mr. Verrall in 1906 I made 

 the following description, published in the " Annals " as above: — 



Type (female) from Bengal, and another female from Khasi 

 Hills. A fair-sized species, easily distinguished by the prominent 

 bluish grey median strii)e of abdomen, with large black spots on 

 the upper part of the face. 



Brown. Face grey ; a large irregular-shaped black spot on each 

 side of antennae, reaching to the eyes. Frontal callus yellow, 

 shining, narrow, concave on the posterior or lower border ; the 

 spot between the antennae black. Forehead grey, the paired spots 

 black and distinct, the unpaired spot brown, indistinct. Antennae 

 yellow ; the first joint stout, not so long as the third joint, with 

 black pubescence; the second joint very small, with black hairs; 

 the third joint broad, becoming narrower where the annulations 



