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the same width throughout. The wings are longer than the body 

 and rather large. The legs are long and slender. 



Udenocera brunnea, $ , Ricardo. 

 (Plate xvi, fig. 8.) 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), xiv, p. 355 (1904). 



Three females from Kandy, Ceylon (Yerbury). The type is 

 numbered 31, 5, 02, the others 18, 5, 92 and 30, 5, 92. 



Brown, Face shining brown below the antennae, forming a 

 triangular convex tubercle, with the apex reaching the proboscis, 

 and longer than the cheeks ; on each side of the face is a brown 

 shining stripe bordering the eyes for a short distance and then 

 the facial tubercle to its apex ; the cheeks are ashy grey , with long 

 white hairs. The proboscis short, the /)a//)i nearl}^ as long ; the 

 first joint short, the second stout at its base, curved, ending in a 

 point, yellow, with black pubescence. The first two joints of the 

 antennae yellow, with black pubescence, the third black; the 

 antennal tubercle brown, shining, grey below; the forehead brown, 

 shining, convex in the middle, with a transverse groove near the 

 tubercle. Eyes bare, the facets of equal size ; on the posterior 

 border the eyes project beyond the vertex of the forehead. 

 Thorax brownish, shining, with indistinct linear yellow stripes on 

 each side, yellow at the sides; the breast brown with black hairs, 

 then grey with whitish hairs. Scutelluni yellow-brown at extreme 

 base, with yellow pubescence. Abdomen of a uniform brown, 

 somewhat shining, with brown pubescence, the under side yellowish 

 at the base. Legs pale yellow, with the femora, apices of tibiae 

 and apices of all the joints of the tarsi except the first one brow^n ; 

 the last joint of the tarsi wholly brown, wath pulvilli and claws; 

 the pubescence of the legs is yellow on the yellow parts and black 

 on the brown parts. Wings hyaline, the veins yellowish brown, 

 the fore border and the apex brown ; some light spaces are appa- 

 rent in the brown of the apex ; the brown shading extends along 

 the posterior border faintly into the fourth posterior cell ; on one 

 wing of the type the apical brown is reduced to a shading of the 

 veins. 



Length 11 mm. 



d' . Four specimens from Kandy, Ceylon, are evidently the 

 males of this species though differing in colouring, being reddish 

 yellow. 



Eyes. — The large facettes occupy two- thirds of the eye, reach- 

 ing the upper end of frontal triangle. Face ashy grey with some 

 w^eak brownish hairs. Beard white. Palpi short and stout, yellow 

 wdth greyish tomentum and brown hairs. Antennal tubercle not 

 quite so protuberant as in female Frontal triangle blackish with 

 grey tomentum. Thorax bare, chamois-coloured, with a few long 

 yellowish hairs on dorsum and shorter ones. Scutellum the same, 

 covered with greyish tomentum. Abdomen reddish yellow, shining, 



