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together. The figure of the antennae of Parhaematopota is not 

 unlike those of this group as regards the third joint, but the pro- 

 duced upper angle of the first joint is not present in these Oriental 

 species. 



(.4) Wings with a pale oblique transverse streak and no rosettes. 

 Haematopota rubida, Ricardo. 

 (Plate xvii, fig. i8.) 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), xviii, p. 120 (1906). 



Type (female) from Burma, 57, 16 (Mrs. Waring). 



An easily distinguished red species, with the hind tibiae in- 

 crassate ; the hind femora with a white bunch of hairs above and a 

 fringe of black hairs on the under side. 



Face grey, the whole upper part deep black ; the palpi yellow 

 with black pubescence and white hairs below. Frontal callus shining 

 brown, protuberant, rounded, the posterior border produced, the 

 anterior border with a deep incision in the middle, filled by the 

 black spot usually present between the antennae, which is large 

 and square with yellow borders ; the frontal callus is short, not 

 reaching the eyes ; forehead grey, darker in the centre; the paired 

 spots are black, small and isolated, the unpaired spot not present. 

 Antennae are of an unusual form ; the first joint very much incras- 

 sate and large, nearly as long as the third joint, 3'ellow and shining, 

 the second very small and narrow, yellow, both joints with black 

 pubescence ; the third joint very broad, ending in an obtuse point, 

 reddish yellow, darker at the tip. Thorax reddish brown, with 

 lighter stripes, darker at the sides ; the breast grey, with white 

 hairs ; the scutellum the same colour. Abdomen reddish brown, 

 with very narrow yellow borders to the segments, darker at the 

 apex; the under side yellow, with grey tomentum. Legs reddish 

 brown ; the anterior and posterior pairs the darkest, the anterior 

 tibiae white at base, the middle tibiae yellowish brown, the two 

 yellow rings not well defined ; the posterior femora broad, with 

 the fringe of hairs on the under side black, on the upper side black 

 on the basal half, on the apical half a tuft of white hairs are pres- 

 ent ; the posterior tibiae very stout and broad, with ill-defined 

 rings as on the middle pair, and fringed with black hairs above 

 and below; the basal joints of the middle and posterior tarsi pale 

 yellow. Wings reddish brown, the veins yellow, with a long ap- 

 pendix, the apical band single ; the pale streak across the middle 

 of the wing is very noticeable, and at once distinguishes the 

 species from H. lata, n. sp. I^ength 10 mm. Ricardo, Ann. Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. (7), xviii, p. 120. 



This species in the shape of its antennae is very nearly allied 

 to my two new species H. validicornis and annandalei, and might 

 be almost included in that group, but is left for the present here 

 owing to the similarity of the wing to H. singular is, Ricardo. 



