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Neoitamus grandis, 2, sp. n. 
Type (female) and three other females from Bhowali, 
Kumaon, 5700 feet, July 1909 (4. D. Imms). 
A species rather similar in appearance to Neoitamus longi- 
stylus, Wik., but distinguished at ouce by the black femora. 
Abdomen brownish, densely covered with yellowish-grey 
tomentum and yellow pubescence. Moustache yellow. Legs 
reddish yellow ; femora partly black. 
Length about 22 mm. 
Face covered with greyish-yellow tomentum and with 
some yellow hairs at sides; tubercle very large, covered with 
the moustache, which cousists of long, yellowish-white, bristly 
hairs. Patpi black with yellow hast Antenne blackish 
the first two joints with ‘black hairs. Forehead brighter- 
coloured than face, with some black hairs. Beard yellowish 
white, the hairs round head the same colour till they reach 
the black occipital bristles. Thorax covered with yeliowish 
tomentum (type is denuded) and with the usaal brown 
stripes, the median one large, not divided. Preesutural bristles 
three, stout, black; supra-alar bristles three, postalar bristles 
four; dorso-central bristles about twelve in number, in the 
type some of the bristles near wings are yellowish ; pubes- 
cence on dorsum black. Scuéellum with greyish-yellow 
tomentum and four stout bristles on margin, yellow in the 
type, black on the others; some long yellow hairs on dorsum. 
Abdomen with the five first segments yellowish; the Ovipositor 
composed of the last three segments is blackish. Legs reddish 
yellow; the fore femora with a broad black stripe on their 
upperside in the type, in the other females wholly black ; 
no bristles below, but one black one on the inner side at apex, 
and long black bristly hairs at the base on underside, some 
of these are almost as stout as bristles; middle tibiz ineras- 
sate, with numerous black bristles on their lower sides and 
some yellow oues on their outer sides, two yellow ones near 
apex, sometimes black; hind femora with two yellow ones 
near apex, one black one inside near apex, and black bristly’ 
hairs below; the pubescence on femora chiefly yellow ; tibiz 
reddish yellow with black bristles and black pubescence, 
some fulvous hairs below; tarsi reddish, black at the apices, 
with many black bristles. Wings large, clear, veins reddish, 
the small trausverse vein at about the middle of the discal 
cell. 
