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XVI. — New Species 0/ H8ematopota//'om India. 

 By Gertrude Ricardo. 



These species were handed to me for identitication by the 

 Imperial Bureau of Economic Entomology, the types to be 

 given to the British Museum Collection. 



H(jematopota montanus, $ , sp. n. 



Type (female) and another from Bababuddin Hills, 

 Mysore, 4700 ft., vi. 1915 (Ramakreshna Coll.). 



A small species allied to Hematopota latifascia, Ricardo 

 (*' Recoi'ds Indian INIuseura,' iv. p. 355, 1911), having one 

 broad band extending across tlie apex of wing, but dis- 

 tinguished from it by the absence of a black band on the 

 face. 



Length of type 8 ram. ; the other female 10 ram. 



Face covered with grey tomentum and witlj small dark 

 brown spots on the upper part, in the other female there is 

 a trace of a black band on the lower edge; there is also a 

 dark spot between the antennae ; hairs ou face scanty, Avhite. 

 Palpi pale yellow with black hairs. Antenna long and 

 slender; the first joint as long as the first annulation of the 

 third joint, only slightly incrassate, yellow with black 

 pubescence ; the second one very small, blackish; the third 

 yellowish at base, then dusky ; slender throughout. Fore- 

 head same colour as face ; the frontal callus blackish brown, 

 reaching the eyes, straight on both borders; the paired spots 

 the same colour, touching the eyes, but not the band; some 

 black pubescence on forehead. Thorax yellowish brown 

 wiih appressed yellow hairs and some black ones ; scutelium 

 same colour with black hairs. Abdomen mummy-brown, 

 with pale yellow segmentations and an obscure pale median 

 stripe; pubescence black, some yellow hairs at apex ; under- 

 side paler. Legs yellowish with blackish-brown rings ; fore 

 femora rather dusky and the others dusky at their apices ; 

 tibiae at base and apex blackish and a black ring in middle, 

 tiie fore tibiee white at base, fore tarsi wholly black, on the 

 other tarsi the basal joint is pale yellow ; pubescence on 

 dark parts black, on the pale parts white; fore tibiae in- 

 crassate. Wings with the usual rosettes ; the apical band 

 starts from the junction of the first vein with the border 

 and attains the posterior border, it is rather sinuous on both 

 borders; on the posterior border pale spots are present in 

 every cell: veins and stigma brown. ■ 



Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 8. Fo/. xix. 15 



