Mr. C. G. Lamb on Exotic Cliloropidse. 



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Head (top view) : — Frons very bright clear orange, the 

 side-forks (between eyes and triangle) brown ; the triangle 

 is very shining black, with its base across the whole vertex, 

 slightly concave sides, and its extreme tip yellow and ex- 

 tending somewhat indistinctly almost to the front ; there are 

 a few scattered black hairs on the frons. Face nearly 

 white. Side-view : eye-margins and jowls pale orange, 

 somewhat suffused with silvery dust, the depth of jowl about 

 equal to 3rd joint ; fine pale vibrissa about halfway down 

 the curved profile, followed by tiny hairs ; antenna orange, 

 with a black spot at insertion of the black, distinctly pubes- 

 cent arista; second joint with a long dorsal bristle at tip ; 

 palpi pale yellow; tongue long, thickening towards the end, 

 shining black. Hind head dullish black. 



Thorax: dorsum absolutely smooth, black, uniformly 

 though thinly covered with golden brown pollen, all bristles 

 black, well developed, and long, especially the last d.-c. Scu- 

 tellum as thorax, nearly semicircular in profile, very long 

 terminal bristles and quite short side ones ; pleura as dorsum, 

 but less shining. 



Wings (fig. 20) long, infuscate, especially so in some cases 

 on the costal half. Halteres yellow. 



Fk. 20. 



Lasioplcura zeylanica, x 22 



Leo-s long, all yellow, but generally slightly suffused on 

 the tibise and tarsi. 



Abdomen rather shining black, with longish black hairs, 

 especially long on the sides. 



Size 2| mm., wings a little more. 



CEYLON: Peradeniya (A. Rutherford). 



