igoy.] Records of the Indian Museum. 127 



2. Thorax black with bright red 



brassy pile . . Long. 5 mm. rubrithorax Macq. 



3. Thorax black with light hair, 

 unstriped. 



lyegs entirely yellow . . I^ong. 8 mm. diffusa Wlk. 

 lyCgs not entirely yellow. 



Posterior femora and tips 



of tibiae brown . . Long. 7 mm. claripennis 



Thoms.^ 

 Femora and tibiae tawny, 

 coxse more or less 



black . . lyong. 10 mm. lutatius Wlk. 



EB Abdomen pale, with black dorsal stripe 



or transverse bands. 

 F Legs partly black, or with distinct black rings. 



1. " Posterior legs black, testaceous 



at base " . . Long. 9 mm. consohrina Macq. 



2. Legs pale. 4 posterior femora 



and tibiae with broad black 



rings . . Long. 5 mm. ochracea Bru. sp. nov. 



FF Legs all pale (femora narrowly ringed in immaculata) . 



1. Thorax brassy . . Long. 6 mm. solennis Wlk. 



2. Thorax pale green with yellow 



hair, legs reddish. . . Long. 12 mm. ochropa Thom. 



3. Thorax black, with lighter hair, 

 (a) Small species, indistinct brown 



bands on femora . . Long. 5 mm. immaculata 



Bru. sp. nov. 

 {aa) Larger species — 



1. Thorax with bright 



tawny hair. Long. 9-1 1 mm. garatas Wlk. 



2. Thorax with whit- 



ish down. Long. 12 mm. immiscens Wlk. 



3. Thorax with short, 



golden yellow hair. Long. 8 mm. restricta\\[\\i. 



4. Thorax with silver 



tomentum. Long. 10 mm. staurophora Sch. 

 AA Scutellum with two exceedingly minute 



spines . . . . Long. 5 mm. suhmutica Bru. sp. nov. 



AAA Scutellum unspined . . Long. 11 mm. mutica V. d. Wulp. 



0. minuta Fab., 1792. 



(Stratiomys) Ent. Sys., iv, 268. 



5 Tranquebar, East India. Type in Fab. Coll. 

 In the Indian Museum Collection I find i $ taken at the end 

 of June, and have taken 2 $ 2 myself in Calcutta. 



i I am not quite sure that this species belongs to my sub-division E — the author's 

 description reading " abdomen pailide flavum, limbo prasino," yet this hardly reads 

 like a distinct dorsal stripe, or wide transverse bands. 



