33G 



Mr. C. G. Lamb on Exotic Chloropidse. 



several Chloropids {e.g., some Elachiptera) of possessing a 

 very large 2nd segment, longer than the rest of the abdomen. 

 The legs are exceptionally well developed, long, stout, hairy, 

 and even subspinose antero-inferiorly on the femur. The 

 head-bristles are very long and strong, the thoracic ones not 

 markedly so. The general head and body form is very like 

 the ordinary type, though more robust in every way, and the 

 colour-scheme is that of the scutellata group. It is repre- 

 sented by two males only, and although these show a very 

 evident hypopygial appendage (smaller than, but approaching 

 to, that of Vactylothyrea), it is thought best to assign them 

 to the present genus, although they are probably worthy of 

 at least subgeneric rank. 



Fiff. 9. 



Fier. 10. 



Meroscinis validissima, x 22. 



Head (top-front view, fig. 9) : — Eye-margin dull black, 

 getting very slightly broader anteriorly and leaving free the 

 huge steely-blue trapezoidal triangle, which extends right up 

 to the antennae and has very long inwardly bent bordering 

 hair-rows; the usual f.o. hair-rows are also very strong, the 

 verticals, long crossed post-verticals, and very divergent 

 ocellarsare all long, the last-named inserted close together on 

 the middle of the ocellar area. Side-view: antenna? normal, 

 with black basal joints and dark brown 3rd, a long black 

 very pubescent (almost hairy) arista ; upper lip just visibly 

 protuberant but sharply so, vibrissa? present, palpi black. 

 Face all black, as is the hind head. 



Thorax black, rather dull, profusely and minutely punctate, 

 with longish fine hairs, which show up brown against the 

 black; scutellum more coarsely, though likewise shallowly, 

 punctate, triangular in plan, with rounded end and also well 

 arched in side-profile : four tubercles, the end two with long 



