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begin, and tapering to a point. Palpi yellow, with dense 

 t)lack pubescence. Thorax blackish brown, lighter coloured at 

 the sides, with faint narrow grey stripes, the breast with hoary 

 markings. Ahdomen hxown, the posterior borders of the segments 

 narrowly yellowish ; some faint black markings on the sides of 

 abdomen ; the under side brown, covered with grey tomentum. 

 Legs yellow, with fine black pubescence ; the coxae grey pollinose. 

 Wings gre}^, with yellow veins and a long appendix ; most of the 

 veins are faintly shaded with darker colour ; the typical markings 

 are faint : there is one rosette apparent, enclosing the appendix, 

 and another beyond. lycngth ii| mm. 



In Indian Museum are two females from Khasi Hills, Assam. 

 One of these is labelled H. limbata, n. sp.. Bigot, in his handwriting 

 and no doubt may be considered a para-type. Both agree in all 

 particulars with the descriptions, the apical band of wing is simple, 

 narrow, but curved on the part crossing the anterior branch of 

 third vein. 



Division II. 



Group II. 



lyegs not uniform in colour, with no rings, but with the base 

 of fore tibiae aMeast white or yellowish. 



{A) Wings with no typical rosettes hut with a pale hand and streaks. 

 Hacmatopota cingulatat 9 , Wied. 



Auss. zweifl. Ins., i, p. 216 (1828) ; Bigot, Bull. Soc. Zool. 

 France, xvi, p. 79 (1891) ; Ricardo, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), 

 xviii, p. 115 (1906). 



Thorax brown, with a wide j^ellow stripe ; abdomen blackish 

 with whitish segmentations ; wings brown, with base, band, and 

 two curved streaks, hyaline. 5 4I lines. From Java. 



Antennae leather-yellow, with the apex of third joint blackish. 

 Palpi blackish. Face blackish brown, faintl}^ greyish white at sides 

 with black dots ; cheeks blackish brown, forehead shining blackish 

 brown, above in certain lights grey with two brown contiguous 

 spots. The yellow stripe of thorax is as broad as the full clear 

 brown sides and is continued on to the scutellum, breast sides full 

 clear brown, breast greyish. Abdomen blackish brown, the first 

 segment with a broad triangular whitish spot which reduces the 

 ground colour at the base to a triangular spot ; second segment 

 with a narrower, triangular spot which attains the base and at its 

 own base unites with the white segmentation ; the following seg- 

 ments merely with white segmentations ; perhaps in perfect un- 

 rubbed specimens these ma}' have white hairs and triangular 

 spots. Under side the same colour, likewise with white segmenta- 

 tions. Wings at the base as far as the middle cross-veins fairly 

 hyaline, only 3'ellowish between the last two veins and on the 

 costal border ; otherwise blackish brown ; the hyaline band lies a 



