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Division III. 



Group III. 



Legs not uniform in colour 1)ut with rings on the middle tibiae 

 only, all tibiae white at base. 



{A) Apical band of zejinsi double. 



Hacmatopota dissimilis, 9 , n. sp. 

 (Plate xvii, tig. 22.) 



In British Museum type (female) and others from Baste, and 

 Gersoppa, N. Canara, India. 1907 (T. R. Bell). 



A species allied to H. bilineata, n. sp., in the wing but distin- 

 guished from it by the first joint of antennae being C3dindrical 

 hardly incrassate, yellowish or ^^ellowish brown in colour, the frontal 

 callus is also broader. Tibiae not incrassate, the hind tibiae with 

 a white-haired ring at the base, the middle tibiae only with typical 

 rings, in this allied to H. atomaria, Walk., but distinguished from it 

 l^y the cylindrical antennae and narrow frontal callus. Apical band 

 of wdng double, the upper branch proceeding from the inner border, 

 the lower and larger one from the outer border. Length 8|mm. 



Face 2iS\iy grey with some short black pubescence, a brown 

 band is present on upper part, broken up into spots, so that the 

 ground colour appears yellowish brown, and the spots are dark 

 brown or black. Palpi with the second joint swollen at base end- 

 ing in a narrow apex, obscurely reddish, with black pubescence. 

 Antennae reddish yellowy slender, long,- the first joint fully as long 

 as the first annulation of third joint, shining with black pubes- 

 cence, hardly incrassate, the second joint very small cup shaped, 

 likewise with black pubescence, the third joint slender, only slightly 

 broader at base, dusk}^ in colour at tip ; a large l)lack spot is pres- 

 ent between the antennae. Forehead brownish, the frontal callus 

 dark blackish brown, shining, almost straight on both borders, 

 in the type produced slightly on the upper border, reaching 

 the eyes anteriorly and posteriorly, occupying in breadth about 

 a third of the width of forehead ; the paired spots large, 

 black, touching the ej-es and the frontal callus, the paired spot 

 small, triangular. Thorax brown with some yellowish brown 

 tomentum and .short pale pubescence, shoulders with some ashy 

 grey tomentum. Scutellum similar to thorax. Abdomen choco- 

 late-brown with narrow grey segmentations, under side similar, 

 pubescence on dorsum scanty, white on segmentations, elsewhere 

 black. Legs blackish, the base of fore tibiae whitish and the usual 

 rings on the middle tibiae reddish yellow or whitish, often indis- 

 tinct, hind tibiae with only a white ring near base and sometimes 

 a tuft of white hairs beyond, the white base of fore tiliiae is more 

 correctly a white ring near the base, fore tibiae hardly incrassate, 

 femora reddish yellow, the basal joint of middle and posterior tarsi 

 pale. Wings very similar to those of //. bilineata, n. sp., the apical 



