A52 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vor. VII, 
Wings.—Sub-hyaline; stigma dark brown, roughly oval, very 
distinct. ‘Tip of wing, from outer side of discal cell, thence in a 
straight line to the costa, and extending hindwards, until filling 
the 2nd posterior cell, distinctly brown, the colour filtering more 
or less into the 3rd posterior cell. Halteres, stem yellow, clubs 
dark brown. 
Redescribed from a single perfect @ in my collection from 
Kandy, Ceylon, viii-08 [Green]. 
N.B.—Macquart’s description is quite correct, but a fuller one 
is not out of place as the species of this genus appear closely 
allied. Very near N. (Clitellaria) responsalts, Walk., from Papua ; 
the agreement in the pale inner side of the 3rd antennal joint and 
the pattern of the thorax being exact. Walker describes the 
thorax as ‘‘covered with cinereous tomentum, except a dorsal 
stripe and two spots on each side.’’ The discrepancy is in the legs 
and wings. In Walker’s species the ‘‘femora are livid, except 
towards the tips, posterior tibiae and tarsi whitish, with black 
tips.’’ He also distinctly notes that the wings are ‘‘ without any 
blackish tinge.’ 
Clitellaria bistriata, mihi, sp. nov. 
@. Western Himalayas. Long. 8—g mm. 
Head.—Vertex wholly occupied by the ocellar tubercle, 
black, shortly black pubescent; occiput blackish, the orbit bare, 
but a little whitish grey hair on lower part. Eyes closely contigu- 
ous, with dense dark brown hair. Frontal triangle black, a little 
whitish grey hair on its uppermost part. Antennae black, normal, 
under side of head with whitish hair. 
Thovax.—Black, with minute black pubescence. The anterior 
margin covered with, also two moderately wide dorsal stripes 
extending from the anterior margin to the scutellum, composed 
of very short golden-brown hairs; these hairs also appearing on, 
behind and below the shoulders. At the extreme lower anterior 
corner of the dorsum is a reddish brown, bare, prominent but very 
small callus. Scutellum rather broad, black, with microscopic 
black pubescence, some longer black hairs above and ragged dirty 
grey hair on under side. ‘The scutellum furnished with two 
slightly curved, moderately long, obtusely pointed spines, placed 
one at each extreme posterior corner. Some greyish hair on 
posterior corners of lower part of thorax. 
Abdomen.—Black, microscopically pubescent, with some very 
short greyish pubescence towards the sides, rather more extensive 
on first two segments, on posterior margin of penultimate segment 
and covering most of the last segment. Belly black, with very 
short greyish pubescence. 
Legs.—Black, with microscopic pubescence, and some very 
short greyish white hair on under side of anterior femora; the 
pubescence on the lower side of the tarsi dark brown. 
