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which is all yellow. Metanotum of moderate size, yellow. Sides 

 of thorax yellow, with a shining, very dark brown triangle just 

 below the root of the wing, and a downward brown streak 

 behind and rather above it. Underside of thorax dark brown; a 

 prominent, small, circular, pale yellow callosity in front of the 

 hind coxae. Abdomen concolorous, with irregularly scattered hairs. 

 Bases of all the segments bro\\-n, the part so coloured apparently 

 varying in breadth ; 2nd segment much contracted ; 3rd and 4th 

 suddenly widened ; the rest together tapering to a point. Ovi- 

 positor short, reddish brown, shining. Belly yellowish, with traces 

 of some transverse bauds, corresponding to those on the upperside. 

 Legs yellowish tawny ; coxae brownish yellow, tarsi blackish, bare 

 of long hairs or bristles, with microscopical yellow pubescence on 

 the femora, which is much mixed with black pubescence on the 

 tibije. Wiwjs yellowish, unmarked, stigma yellowish, indistinct, 

 small ; veins and halteres brown. 



Lenqth 12 millim. 



Described from one male from Sylhet in the Indian Museum, 

 in perfect condition. 



199. Pselliophora chrysophila, WalTc. 



Ctenophom chrysophila, Walker, Proc. Linn. Soc. Lend., Zool. i, 



p. 6 (1857). 

 Cteuophora chrysopila, Osteu Sacken, Berlm. Ent. Zeits. xxx, 

 p. 169 (1886). 

 $. Head, with scape, wholly bright orange, palpi slightly 

 brown, flagellum black, the form of the joints much as in 

 P. taprohanes. Thora.v with sides, scutellum, and metanotum 

 wholly bright orange; a very faint indication of three darker 

 stripes. Abdomen bright orange, with short concolorous pub- 

 escence ; posterior margins of segments a little deeper orange, 

 and small blackish marks (apparently the ground-colour of the 

 abdomen shewing through the tomentum) here and there at the 

 sides. Belly similar. Last segment and ovipositor shining black, 

 tip of valves reddish. Legs : cox« and femora bright orange, tips 

 of latter narrowly blackish brown, remainder of legs dark blackish 

 brown. Hind tibia; only with a narrow pale yellowish ring 

 immediately beyond the base. Wings orange-yellow ; the apical 

 part as far inwards as the whole of the outer marginal, sub- 

 margiual and 1st and 2nd posterior cells, brown; the colour 

 absolutely demarcated proximally by the veins delimiting these 

 cells, but extending, more indistinctly, into the discal cell and 

 posteriorly, also indistinctly, into the 3rd and 4th posterior ceils. 

 Halteres orange. 



Lenqth 16 millim. to tip of ovipositor. 



Eedescribed from two females in the Indian Museum from 



Bhim Tal, 4500 feet, Kumaon district, 19-22 ix. 06 (Annandale). 



The two examples examined are exactly similar, except that the 



