igii.] G. RiCARDO : The Oriental Tahanidae. 351 



Scutellum similar. Abdomen brown with distinct grey segmenta- 

 tions. Legs blackish brown, the fore tibiae at base, and the other 

 tibiae with two rings, yellowish, the base of posterior tarsi paler. 

 Wings dark brown, with apical band as described, posterior cells 

 with small pale markings in their apices, the transverse small bc.nds 

 small, chiefly appearing as spots, the stigma darker brown than the 

 colouring of wing. 



Hacmatopota cingalensis, 9 , Ricardo. 

 (Plate xvi, fig. 15.) 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), xviii, p. 119 (1906). 



Type (female), 19th milestone. Candy Road, 1890 (Yerbury) ; 

 two females from Tamblegum, 1890 (Yerbury) ; and a serise 

 of females from Anaradhupura, Ceylon ; 1899 (Oliver Bartholo- 

 mew). 



There is a note with Col. Yerbury 's specimens to the effect 

 that the species is common on the road near Tamblegum in Octo- 

 ber and November. 



This species is distinguished from H. cordigera. Bigot, by the 

 paired spots not coalescing, by the longer first joint of the an- 

 tennae, and by the fore legs being lighter in colour. 



A dull greyish brown species. 



Face grey ; an oblong black spot under the antennae, and a 

 black stripe reaching from the eyes half-way across to the lower 

 edge of this spot, the colour above the spot being yellowish. 

 Frontal callus pitchy brown, shining, with a concave fore border, 

 from which a black spot proceeds to between the antennae ; the 

 posterior border is produced in the middle ; the paired spots are 

 black, large, almost toudiing the eyes ; the unpaired spot ap- 

 parent, sometimes indistinct ; forehead yellowish, grey at the sides. 

 Antennae yeWow ; the third joint darker, its last three annulations 

 dull black; the first joint curved, not quite so long as the third, 

 the second joint very small. Thorax brown, with three well-marked 

 grey stripes and four grey spots on its posterior border, the side ones 

 ending at the suture in a spot ; there are traces of short white 

 pubescence on the dorsum ; the breast is grey, with some white 

 hairs. Abdomen light mahogany-brown or brownish, with light 

 yellow borders to the segments and a well-marked grey stripe 

 starting from the second segment ; there are also distinct oblong 

 grey spots on each side, beginning from the third segment; there 

 is some short white pubescence, thickest on the yellow borders of 

 the segments ; the under side with grey tomentum. Legs reddish 

 yellow, the fore tibiae white at base, or rather, with one narrow 

 white ring on the basal half ; the apical half black ; the middle 

 and hind tibiae with well-marked typical whitish rings. n'/;/g.s 

 greyish, with a yellowish brown stigma and yellow veins and an 

 appendix : the rosettes and markings are distinct ; the apical band 

 in the type and other specimens is double, but in others the double 



