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short, bright golden-yellow, coarse scaly pubescence ; pleurae a 

 little lighter grey, nearly bare ; scutelluin with long hairs on hind 

 margin. Abdomen dark blackish grey (base of 1st segment some- 

 times lighter) ; dorsum wholly covered with similar yellow 

 pubescence to that of the thorax, which appears to be sparser 

 along the einarginations of the segments, and with some longer 

 finer black hairs intermixed ; venter lighter or darker grey, 

 with sparse pale pubescence ; genitalia dark grey, a rather large 

 dorsal plate, a pair of 2-jointed dark grey claspers, brownish 

 yellow towards tips. Legs pale or brownish yellow ; coxse dark 

 grey in places, with some pale yellow pubescence ; tips of hind 

 femora slightly brownish ; tibiae and tarsi yellowish, tips of tibiae 

 minutely black, hind tarsi blackish, darker towards tips. A high 

 microscopic power reveals the usual adpressed yellowish scales 

 on all the femora, so pale and closely applied to the surface as 

 to be easily overlooked. Wings clear ; stigma pale brownish 

 yellow, elongate, distinct, but not sharply defined ; halteres rather 

 large and long, brownish yellow with blackish knobs. 



Described from a <5 (type) from Almora, Kumaon District, 

 5500 ft., 29. vi. 1931 (Paiva), and another 6" from .Kurseong, 

 5000 ft., 8. vii. 1908 ; both in the Indian Museum. 



The differences between this species and the European splen- 

 didus, Mg.,* are as follows : The coxae are yellow, the hind pair 

 more or less blackish and bare; in splendidus the coxae are ash- 

 grey, the hind pair bearing long yellow hairs on the apical half. 

 In my species the femora are bright yellow, with minute yellow 

 scales ; in splendidus they are blackish, with blackish scales. In 

 flavopilosus the palpi are thinner and shorter than in splendidus, 

 also with fewer and shorter hairs. In flavopilosus the first two 

 antennal joints are dark yellowish brown ; in splendidus they are 

 black. 



103. Chrysopilus yerburyi, sp. nov. 



cJ . Head with face and proboscis moderately dusted with dark 

 grey, labellae brownish yellow ; palpi brownish yellow, black-tipped ; 

 antennal 1st joint blackish, 2nd and 3rd brownish yellow ; ocellar 

 triangle distinct; occiput grey, with a little pale hair on lower 

 part. Thorax and scutellum black, covered with golden-yellow scaly 

 pubescence ; pleurae grey ; humeral region somewhat yellowish. 

 Abdomen brownish yellow, hind margin of 2nd and 3rd segments 

 narrowly or broadly, of 4th broadly black, remaining segments 

 all black ; the major part of each segment (except perhaps 

 the 1st) from the base apparently covered with golden-yellow 

 scaly pubescence and thin yellow hairs; venter yellow ; genitalia 

 black. Legs yellow, tarsi darker, tips of hind femora above 



* In my note on " ? C. lielvnhis, Mg." (Rec. Ind. Mus. vii, p. 464) I used in 

 error the specific name hclvolus instead of splendidus. 



