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slender^ only slightly wider at base, the first two joints with black 

 pubescence ; the black spot between the antennae present and a 

 small shining 37ellow frontal callus. Abdomen with the first four 

 segments reddish yellow, the posterior border of fourth and other 

 segments blackish. Legs rather paler than in female, and the ring 

 of tibiae not always apparent. Wings identical in design, the 

 small transverse bars smaller, reduced to spots. 



This species is allied in the wing to H. pallens, Loew, Neue Bes- 

 chreib. Kurop. Dipt., ii, p. 61 (1871). The six specimens of Loew's 

 species in the Brit. Mus. coll. recorded by me in the '' Annals " (7). 

 xviii, p. 96 (1906), are females, not males as erroneousl}^ printed ; the 

 Indian females of my species have the antennae reddish and no 

 band on the face, whereas in the Algerian specimens the antennae 

 are blackish, only the third joint being pale yellow, black at apex 

 and there is a black band on the face broken up into spots. The 

 Indian males have this band but the first joint of antennae is 

 wholly 3'ellow, incrassate but less so and shorter than in H. pall ens. 

 The spot between the antennae in both males and females of my 

 species is small and brown, in the Algerian females it is large and 

 black. 



(B) Apical band of iving dotible, but not almost filling up the apex 

 of wing. 



{a) Both branches of apical band joined at their base, diver- 

 ging later. 



Haematopota tessellata, ? , Ricardo. 

 (Plate xvi, fig. 14.) 



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



Type (female), Hot Wells, Trincomalee, S-xi-gi (Yerbury), 

 92, 192. 



A grey species with brown wings, the white marknigs very 

 clearly defined, so that the wings have a chequered appearance; 

 the middle and hind tibiae with rings. 



Face grey, only a trace of a brown stripe between the antennae 

 and the eyes. Frontal callus black, short, not reaching the eyes, 

 very much produced on the posterior border, ending in a point ; 

 the anterior border almost straight; the paired spots large, black, 

 not reaching the eyes; the forehead is apparently grey, and no 

 paired spot visible. Antennae yellow; the third joint dusky, the 

 first joint incrassate, rather shorter than the third, the second 

 very short, the third long, tapering to a point. Thorax brown, 

 with three grey stripes ; the shoulders, base, and sides of thorax 

 grey; a short white pubescence on the dorsum; the breast grey. 

 Abdomen brown, with rather wide white borders to the segments, 

 grey spots on the posterior segments, and a faint grey median 

 stripe. Legs brown, the femora fighter, the middle and posterior 

 tibiae with rings, the basal joint of the tarsi of the middle and 



