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shading at apex and on hind border not very distinct, but 
extending down the fore border as far as the Junction of the 
second and third veins ; the small transverse vein is just 
beyond the middie of the discal cell or at the middle. 
Female identical. ‘le hind femora appear to have only 
two or three yeilow bristles on their uppersides. ‘The 
ovipositor consists of the last three segments and is black 
with chiefly black pubescence. 
Neowtamus mornatus, § 2, sp. nD. 
Type (male) and type (female), from Mussoree, U.P., 
India (J. #. Middleton), 1911, 448. 
One female from Punjaub (Dudgeon Coll.), 1904, 232. 
A small inconspicaous-looking species. Abdomen blackish 
with segmentations and sides grey. Legs blackish; tibice 
and tarsi largely yellowish. Beard black and white. Fore 
femora with some bristles. 
Length, ¢ 14, 9 16mm. 
Male.— Face blackish with grey tomentum ; the tubercle 
large shining black, carrying a thick, tuft-like, white mous- 
tache surrounded by black bristles. Palpi black with black 
bristles. Beard white. Antenne broken off, in the other 
female they are blackish, the base of the third joint reddish 
yellow. Forehead with black bristly hairs, the hairs round 
head white, with strong black bristles at vertex on each 
side of the frontal incision. Thorax covered with greyish 
tomentum, having a very distinct median black stripe divided 
ia the middle and with three blackish spots forming side- 
stripes ; the pubescence is short and black. Praesutural 
bristles are four, three being yellow; three supra-alar bristles, 
four postalar Baistioa ; the dorso-central bristles are numerous 
but weak, many being yellowish, weak, bristle-like hairs. 
Scutellum covered with grey tomentum and with some long 
white pubescence, and three or four black bristles on its 
posterior border. Abdomen covered with greyish tomentum, 
leaving a large blackish-brown spot on each segment, 
rounded at their posterior border; on the side of each seg- 
ment are two or more strong yellow bristles and long white 
hairs; on the dorsum the pubescence consists of very short 
yellowish hairs, more numerous and longer and paler. on the 
first segment. Legs blackish; the femora at their apices 
yellow ; tibize yellow with apices black ; tarsi yellowish with 
black apices ; fore femora incrassate, w ith three short yellow 
bristles at base below and a few black small bristles round 
the apex; pubescence blackish with some white hairs, all 
