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white hairs are longer and more inclined to be bristly, and 
two black bristles are present on the apex, also present on 
the hind tibize, which have an extra black bristle on the upper- 
side ; fore tibie with black bristles and long black hairs 
below, and a thick fringe of short rufous hairs below ; the 
middle pair the same with fewer black bristles and the long 
hairs are white; hind tibiw with black bristles and the fringe 
of rufous hairs on each side, and no long hairs below; the 
first joint of tarsi stout and elongate with many stout black 
bristles ; some white pubescence on outer side and rufous 
hairs below, and some long black hairs; the other tarsi 
studded with black bristles and with some black pubescence. 
Wings clear, shaded on the apex and posterior border, the 
small transverse vein situated on apical third of the length 
of discal cell. 
Female identical. Moustache with more black hairs. 
Ovipositor is very long, including the sixth and seventh 
segments, about as long as the four posterior segments 
together. 
Neovitamus tropicus, € 2,sp.n. 
Male (type) from Sat Tal, 9. 5. 1912. 
Hemale (type) from Sham Ket, 16. 5. 1912; and anothe 
from Bhowali, July 1909, 5700 feet—all from Imms Coll. 
A small species, very similar to the European Neoitamus 
cyanurus, but differing in the bristles on legs being largely 
yellow, and in the pre “esutural bristles being reddish yellow 
or yellow and three in number. 
Length, ¢ 10, ? 18-15 mm. 
Male.—Greyish black. Face covered with whitish tomen- 
tum ; the tubercle which takes up the greater part of the face 
darker, covered by the dense dirty-w hite hairs of the mous- 
tache with some black bristle-like hair above them. Palpt 
black with black hairs. Beard dirty white. Hairs round 
head the same colour; postocular bristles black. Antenne 
blackish, the arista not so long as the third jomt. Thorax 
with the usual black stripes, the median one divided ; the 
three preesutural bristles yellowish, two supra-alar bristles 
usually black, two postalar (one black, one yellow) ; the dorso- 
central bristles extend beyond the suture in two rows, all 
black ; pubescence on the dorsum black, white at the sides. 
Scutellum with four stout long bristles on its margin, and 
white pubescence on the dorsum. Addomen with the usual 
large black spot on each segment and long white hairs on 
the first segment, elsewhere short and white, “sides with some 
