CEHOPLATUS. 57 



8. Ceroplatus quadripunctatus, sp, uov. (PI. I, fig. 6 ; PI. Ill, 

 fig. 2.) 



§ . Head blackish ; eyes separated below the antennae by a 

 narrow grey line ; mouth-parts yellow ; antennal scape dirty 

 yellowish white, flagelluin black, the joints much broader than long, 

 with the apical two or three joints dirty white. Thorax dull 

 yellow. Dorsum with an indistinct thin reddish line, slightly 

 ■enlarged on the anterior margin. On each side of this line are 

 two, much shorter, narrow, well separated, distinct brown stripes, 

 joined in front by a narrow cross-stripe, which latter is placed at 

 some distance from the anterior margin. Tliese four stripes almost 

 meet in the middle of the hind margin, where each outer stripe is 

 enlarged into a triangle placed nearly on the posterior corner of 

 the dorsum. The space on each side of the posterior half of the 

 median line, as far as the nearest stripe on eacli side, is darker 

 brown. Below the posterior corners of the dorsum is a thin 

 brown streak. Sides of thorax, the scutellum and metanotum, pale 

 yellowish white. Abdomen dirty yellow, 1st segment and tip of 

 abdomen brownish. Belly concolorous, lighter, the middle seg- 

 ments with a very slightly darker median stripe on the basal half, 

 joined to a wavy transverse line across the centre of the seg- 

 ments ; abdomen with short black pubescence. Genitalia yellowish 

 white, inconspicuous. Legs yellowish white, tips of posterior 

 ■coxae and bases of posterior femora, brownish, also tips of tibiae ; 

 tarsi rather darker dirty yellow. Wings moderately dark grey, 

 darker at tip and on distal part of hind border. Two broad, 

 blackish, distinct stripes (ill-defined at the edges) run from the 

 costa ; the outer edge of the first placed just before the middle of 

 the wing, the stripe filling the basal third of the marginal cell, but 

 not encroaching on the basal cell ; the second blackish stripe 

 begins on the costa, immediately beyond the middle of the wing, 

 and is wide enough to enclose the upper branch of the 3rd vein, 

 extending posteriorly to the middle of the ist posterior cell, where 

 it joins the apical darkening of the wing, thus enclosing, on the 

 costal border, a roundish clear spot, through the centre of which 

 runs the 3rd vein ; between the two dark stripes the wing on 

 the costal border is nearly clear for an irregularly square space, 

 ill-defined at the edges, thus giving the appearance of two distinct 

 clear spots on the costal border of each wing. Veins brown, 

 ^interior ones, including the 3rd, deeper and stronger. Halteres 

 pale yellow, clubs brown. 

 Length 4| millim. 



Described from one specimen in the Indian Museum, from 

 Calcutta, 27. vii. 09, where Dr. Annandale took it from a spider's 

 web. 



If Cerotelion, Eond., is admitted as generically distinct from 

 Ceroplatus, the present species will belong to it. 



