46 Mr. C. G. Lamb on Exotic Chloropidae. 



is itself rather unusually long; arista white and closely 

 pubescent as usual, with the smooth basal joint yellow. 

 The face is shining black, with silvery lines from the an- 

 tennal bases to the mouth and with silvery lower eye- 

 margins ; palpi black. 



Thorax: the dorsum is finely granulated; the geueral 

 ground-colour is dark greyish, with the following black 

 marks : — a broad median line vanishing about halfway, a 

 very fine black line running down the centre of each of the 

 itither obsolescent furrows ; beyond this a broadish line 

 from just in front of the callus to the Side of the scutellum, 

 interrupted by the grey ground where the cross-suture 

 should be; last d. c. well developed; pleura shining black, 

 with oblique row of three pale yellow spots — a triangular 

 one just behind the humeral callus, a sloping one on the 

 mesopleura, a horizontal one above the mid-coxa. Scu- 

 tellum pale orange, nearly flat, hairless, with long crossed 

 terminal bristles and small accessory ones beside the main 

 ones and close to them. 



Wings clear, vi'ith brownish veins ; the venation is not 

 quite as given by Becker for megalops (I., tab. iii. fig. 47) ; 

 the 2nd vein is quite parallel to the ord all the way, and the 

 distances between the ends of 2 to 3 and 3 to 4 are nearly 

 equal. 



Legs orange ; femora progressively more infuscate from 

 front to hind ; last tarsal joints dark.. 



Abdomen entirely deep dull black, smooth. 



Size (ex. antcnnse) 3j mm. 

 • Cam. Coll., Durban (F. M.j. 



To the section with dark and rather rugose scutellum 

 belong two species. One of these will pass for L. lungicorne 

 of Thomson (Eug. E,esa, p. 60ij. It agrees quite well with 

 Avhat would be a dark form of the species, though not so 

 Aveil with Becker's description (I., p. I08j. The remarkable 

 antennae are even longer than may be inferred from the 

 description ; the thorax can be described as black, rather 

 rugose, with three narrow, smoother, grey stripes ; the 

 scutellum like thorax, centrally black, with the sides orange. 



It is possible that we have a new species here, but as there 

 is but the single specimen, it is left provisionally in this 

 species. Thomson's species was from China, this is from 

 S. India. 



Size (ex. antennae) nearlv 3 mm. 



Bur. Coll., Coimbatore, Madras Presidency. 



