344 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vol. IV, 



Assam (H. ]\Iaxwell Lefroy). In Hewlett coll. females from 

 Nangpoh- 



This species is ven^ nearly allied to Haematopota javana, Wied., 

 but is at once distinguished from it by the apical band of wing 

 which is single, short; starting from the costal border just above 

 where the second vein ends, it crosses the anterior 1)ranch of 

 the third vein, curving downwards, and ends just beyond ; it is 

 broad at its base, gradually becoming narrower ; a pale indistinct 

 spot sometimes appears beyond it ; the first posterior cell is in some 

 specimens more largely filled at its apex with white markings. 

 The frontal callus is black, shining, centre of face with no black 

 spot. The first joint of antennae not quite so incrassate or so long 

 and the third joint not quite so wide. The grey stripes of thorax 

 and grey colour of scutellum is here ashy grc}-, abdomen blackish 

 brown with whitish segmentations, only median spots sometimes 

 apparent on second and third segments, and side spots not present, 

 The hind tibiae are fringed with black hairs. Length lo mm. 



Haematopota lata, 9 , Ricardo 

 (Plate xvii, fig. 26.) 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), xviii, p. 121 (1906). 



Type (female) from Khasi Hills district, India (Chennell), 1878 : 

 five females from N. Chin Hills, Burma, iv-93 (Watson). 



A dark brown broad-bodied species distinguished by the broad 

 hind tibiae fringed with black hairs. 



Face grey, with some brown marks below the antennae, the 

 stripe between the antennae and the eyes yellow, with some brown 

 dots ; the beard white ; the palpi yellow, with white pubescence and 

 a few black hairs intermixed. Frontal callus brown, shining, nar- 

 row, reaching the eyes ; the anterior border irregular with yellow 

 edges ; the posterior border nearly straight ; the paired spots black, 

 large, touching the eyes ; the unpaired spot small, bordered 

 with yellow ; forehead grey , yellower on the vertex with short 

 black pubescence. Antennae very similar to those of H. ruhida, 

 long, robust, ^^ellowish red, darker at the tips with black pubes- 

 cence ; the first joint shorter than the third, stout, incrassate, the 

 second very small, the third broad, ending in an obtuse point. 

 Thorax brown, with a narrow, indistinct, grey median stripe con- 

 tinued to the scutellum ; the side stripes grey, broader, ending 

 at the suture in triangular spots ; the shoulders and posterior 

 border of the thorax grey ; a short grey stripe from each side of 

 the base of the thorax running up to the suture outside the usual 

 side stripes ; the sides and breast grey, the latter with white hairs, 

 traces of silvery white pubescence on the dorsum, with some black 

 pubescence. Scutellum brown, grey on its anterior border. Ab- 

 domen brown, with distinct greyish wdiite borders to the segments : 

 the sides of the first four segments grey ; from the fourth segment 

 large grey spots are apparent on each side ; a grey median stripe 



