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band in type has the upper branch proceeding from the inner 

 border very insignificant consisting of a very short narrow line 

 not reaching the anterior branch of the third vein, but in the 

 other specimens it usually crosses it or at least reaches it, the lower 

 and larger branch is wide at its base, becoming narrower as it 

 proceeds, crossing the upper branch of third vein. 



(B) Apical hand of luing single. 



Haematopota atomaria, 5 , Walker. 



(Plate xvi, fig. ii.) 



Proc. Linn. Soc. London, i, p. 112 (1856) ; Ricardo, Ann. 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), xviii, p. 117 (1906), 



In British Museum coll. 



Type (female), Sarawak, Borneo (Wallace), 56,44, and two 

 other females from Sarawak, 57, 36. 



A small dark species, with brown wings, distinctly marked 

 with the usual rosettes and spots; the first joint of the antennae 

 incrassate. 



Face grey ; two small black spots beneath the antennae , the 

 upper part of the face with a brown stripe, which becomes yellow- 

 ish near the antennae; the palpi yellow, with black pubescence; 

 the beard white. Frontal callus pitchy brown, shining, broad, 

 reaching the eyes, with the posterior border convex, rounded, the 

 anterior border reaching round the antennae ; the paired spots black , 

 round, reaching the eyes and the frontal callus, with yellow borders. 

 Forehead brown, yellower on the vertex ; the unpaired spot not 

 present. A)itennac blackish ; the first joint dark red, shining, with 

 iDlack hairs, slightly incrassate, considerably shorter than the third ; 

 second very small ; third broad, ending in a point. Thorax brown 

 with traces of darker stripes and of short white pubescence ; scu- 

 tellum the same colour ; l>reast brown. Ahdomen brown, with nar- 

 row greyish borders to the segments, which are broader on the 

 under side. Legs reddish brown, with black pubescence, which be- 

 comes fringe-like on the hind legs ; the base of the anterior tibiae 

 white, the middle tibiae with the typical rings, the posterior tibiae 

 brown at the extreme base, then white and brown on the apical 

 half. Wings brown, with brown veins and an appendix ; the 

 apical ,band single ; all the posterior cells and apical cell with a 

 triangular white spot at their openings with the exception of the 

 fourth posterior cell. Length 9 mm. Ricardo, Ann. Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. (7), xviii, p. 117. 



The posterior tibiae are white at base. 



Haematopota unizonata, Ricardo. 

 (Plate xvi, figs. 12, 13.) 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), xviii, p. 118 (1906). 

 Type (male) from Ceylon, 1892 (Yerbury). 



