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hairs ; the eighth ventral segment produced, with a fringe of 
black hairs. Leys black; all the femora with leng black 
hairs below, sometimes rather bristle-like ; the middle femora 
with three bristles at the apex aud one near the apex, the 
posterior pair with four on the upperside, two at the apex, 
and two near the apex; tibize and tarsi with strong black 
bristles; the tibize on their outer edges with a fringe of fine, 
short, whitish hairs, continued on the first two joints of tarsi, 
this fringe is most noticeable on the hind pair of legs. 
Wings clear, the usual shading very faint, the small trans- 
verse vein just before the middle of the discal cell or 
sometimes beyond it. 
Female is similar. Ovipositor black, about the length of 
the last two segmeuts. 
Machimus tibialis, 8 2, sp. n. 
Type (male) (216) from Dehra Dun, U.P., 3. 4. 1912. 
Type (female) (218) from Dehra Dun, U.P., 1. 4. 1912 
and others from same locality and Bhowali, Kumaon, 5700 
feet, July 1909, all from Imus Coll. 
A small species with reddish-yellow tibize and some of the 
femora with a reddish-yellow stripe on the inside. Abdomen 
greyish yellow, with paler segmentations. Moustache black 
and white. 
Length, ¢ 134, 2 15-17 mm. 
Male.—Face with grey tome:ntum; tubercle fairly pro- 
minent. Moustache composed of bristly white hairs, with 
black ones above and at sides. Padpi black with black hairs. 
Beard white. Antenne blackish brown, the second -one 
reddish, both with black bristly hairs below and whitish 
short hairs above, the third with an arista two-thirds of its 
length. Forehead with black hairs. Hairs round head 
whitish, the postocular .bristles black. Thorax greyish 
yellow with the usual stripes; the presutural bristles, the 
supra-alar, and postalar all two in number, black; the dorso- 
central bristles about eight in number, aljl accompanied 
by some long, fine, black hairs. Seutellum paler with pale 
yellowish pubescence and with six long bristles on its 
margin, some of these being yellowish. Abdomen greyish 
yellow, with a large dark spot on each segment; the seg- 
mentations lighter, the first three segments with whitish 
weak bristles on their’sides; a few white hairs are visible on 
the sides of the others and on the segmentations of the last 
two segments; pubescence on dorsum very short, black; 
genitalia blackish above and reddish below, with chiefly 
