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hairs on the sixth segment are tuft-like and yellowish, those 
on the seventh segment shorter, whiter, and less numerous, 
not tuft-like. Genitalia stout, complicated, black, with black 
pubescence. Legs black, the fore and middle tibie dull 
rufous; femora appear devoid of bristles, but have black 
pubescence, thick on the hind pair; the tibize have black 
bristles and black hairs, the latter long below, and some rufous 
short hairs are present on the fore and middle pair ; tarsi 
black with black bristles and black hairs, the first joint 
inerassate aud Jong, very heavily armed with black bristles. 
Winys yellowish grey, shaded grey at apex and on posterior 
border, the small transverse vein this side of the middle of 
discal cell. 
Female is identical, but has no pale hairs on the sixth and 
seventh segments of abdomen; the ovipositor is reddish 
yellow, including the sixth and seventh segments, and as long 
as the three last segments together, at its apex with a (eer 
veak, yellow, short spines and hairs. Wings are more yellow 
i” colour. 
Neottamus pulcher, 6 2, 8p. n 
Male Ceype) from Kandy, Ceylon, 20. 5. 92. (Lt.-Col. 
Yerbury), 1892, 192. 
Female (type) from Haragam, Ceylon, 1. 6.92. (Lt.-Col. 
Yerbury), 1893, 192; and another female from Kandy, 
20.5. 92 (Li.- Col. Yerbury), 1892, 192. 
A large fine-looking species with reddish-yellow antennz 
and legs. Abdomen black with narrow reddish- yellow bands 
in the male and yellowish bands in the female. Wings 
shaded at apex and on hind border. 
Length, g 22, 2 with ovipositor 25 mm. 
Male, Face ‘chamois-yellow, with tomentum of same 
colour. Facial tubercle very large, carrying the moustache 
composed of stout yellow bristles, four or more black bristles 
above the mouth on each side. Palpi reddish brown with 
yellow hairs. Antenne pale yellow, the second joint redder, 
the third joint wanting, black hairs op sides of the first 
joint which is fully four times as long as the second joint, 
the black hairs are also present on this joint. Hind part of 
liead with yellow bristle-like hairs, continued as soft hairs 
to proboscis and below it. Thorawv blackish brown with 
yellow-grey tomentum, the median stripe very distinct, con- 
tinued just beyond the suture where it splits in half. Pree- 
sutural bristles apparently two, one being reddish, the other 
black; supra-alar bristles apparently two and both black ; 
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