366 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell — Descriptions and 



2. Hair fringing thoracic dorsum, and on each 



side of antennae, fox-red ; size ordi- 

 nary. Hair of sides of metathorax and 

 of pleura greyish white ; abdomen, 

 when fresh, with narrow white hair- 

 bands, very conspicuous, on hind mar- 

 gins of segments 2 to 5 ; mesothorax in 

 middle nude, shining, with scattered 

 large punctures ; second s.m. very 

 broad, much broader above than third ; 

 first abdominal segment with punctures 

 very much larger than on second ; hind 

 spur strongly ciliate; antennas short. 

 2 sidemii, Rads. {jnnhow- 



skyi, Rads., is a synonym, if the specimen so 



labelled is authentic). 

 Hair of thorax &c. not so coloured 3. 



3. Size smaller, length about 9 mm. : no dark 



hair on head or thorax ; abdomen with 

 broad bands of yellowish-white tomen- 

 tum ; hind margin of first segment 

 (tegument) rather broadly reddish ; 

 tegulae very pale reddish ; antennae 

 short ; clypeus sparsely punctured in 

 middle ; nervures and stigma rather 

 dark ; hind spur very minutely ciliate. 



$ mlrtus, Rads. 



Larger, with some fuscous hair on thorax 

 above 4. 



4. Abdomen dull, first segment granular, not 



punctured ; anterior wings dilute fuli- 

 ginous ; flagellum ferruginous beneath 



except at base dudyeonii, Bingham. 



First abdominal segment well punctured. . 5. 



5. Abdomen very shiny, pyriform, first seg- 



ment relatively weakly punctured, 

 though very distinctly, its hind margin 



ferruginous ; wings yellowish. (Japan.) perforator, Smith (type). 

 Abdomen duller, first segment strongly and 

 coarsely punctured, its hind margin not 

 reddened, but covered, as also base of 

 second segment broadly and apices of 

 segments 2 to 5, with greyish-white 

 hair ; face broad. £ yaUicus, Rads. 



The example o£ C. dudgeonii appears to be correctly named, 

 although it is from the Bombay district, and has anterior 

 wings quite strongly fuscous. It is 13 mm. long; clypeus 

 and front densely punctured ; tegulae very dark brown ; 

 abdomen dull, not punctured. 



Diadasia affiichda, sp. n. 

 $ . — Length about 7 mm.j width of abdomen 2\. 



