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the centre ; a black spot between the antennae. Forehead (denu- 

 ded) blackish, with grey tomentum and some golden pubescence. 

 Thorax (denuded) brown, with gre}' stripes and tomentum and some 

 black and grey pubescence ; sides grey, with traces of fulvous and 

 grey pubescence ; scutellum brown, with median grey stripe and 

 gre3ash pubescence. Abdomen brown, with grey median stripe, 

 gre}' spots on each side, and grey sides ; the greyish pubescence 

 rather dense. Legs reddish brown, the tibiae yellower, the an- 

 terior ones whitish at the base, brown at the apex ; the anterior 

 tarsi brown, the middle and posterior tarsi yellow, darker at the 

 joints and apex ; coxae with rather long white pubescence ; femora 

 with short white pubescence ; tibiae and tarsi with some black 

 pubescence. Wings greyish, with appendix ; veins yellowish brown ; 

 stigma brown ; a darker spot is visible above the stigma. Length 

 8 mm. Ricardo, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), xviii, p. 125. 



(C) Wings with the usual rosettes, the apical hand single. 

 Haematopota Indiana, $ , Bigot. 

 (PI. xvii, fig. 19.) 



Bull. Soc. Zool. France, xvi, 78 (189 1) ; id., Mem. Soc. Zool. 

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

 xviii, p. 124 (1906). 



Antennae double as long as the head, first and second joints 

 reddish yellow, the third brown, at the base a little reddish yellow, 

 the first cylindrical, the third not incrassate ; palpi chestnut col- 

 oured, proboscis brown ; cheeks and face white below ; forehead 

 ashy grey with two black spots, and with a black, shining, anchor- 

 shaped spot below ; thorax chestnut coloured with four ashy grey 

 stripes, scutellum chestnut coloured, pleurae ashy grey ; abdomen 

 brown, with white segmentations and with a median broad white 

 stripe ; anterior and intermediate femora pale chestnut, paler at 

 their apices, the posterior ones dull brown, tibiae not with rings, 

 black, at the base widely white, anterior tarsi black, intermediate 

 and posterior ones white at base; pleurae brown, halteres reddish 

 yellow with apex black ; wings pale cinereous, at the apex diffusely 

 pale brown, and ornamented with numerous white spots and lines. 

 Bigot, Mem. Soc. Zool. France, v, p. 627. 



In Indian Museum one female from Tezpore, Assam. 



The following description was published by me in the 

 " Annals " after an examination of the type : — 



A brown species, distinguished by its long slender antennae 

 and all the tibiae white at the base. 



Face grey, dark brown in the centre, immediately below the 

 antennae ; the stripe between the antennae and the eyes brown, 

 but broken up into dots and spots. Palpi reddish , rather long, with 

 brown pubescence and some white hairs ; beard white. Frontal 

 callus narrow, long, reaching the eyes, shining brown, both borders 

 nearly straight ; the spot between the antennae black, bordered 



