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115. Hirmoneura cingulata, Licht. 



Hirmoneurn tinyulata, Lichtwardt, Deut. Ent. Zeits. p. 644, $> 

 (1909) ; id., Rec. Ind. Mus. ix, p. 333, $ (1913). 



<$ 2 . A small grey species with abdominal bands. Head 

 with eyes thickly pubescent, especially in $ , narrowly separated 

 in c? ; frons scarcely wider in $ , bearing sparse black hair, 

 around the antennal base with thicker yellowish-grey hair ; 

 antennae, palpi, and legs all yellowish red,* tarsi hardly darker. 

 Thorax blackish, wifh grey pubescence, which at the sides is longer 

 and more yellowish. Abdomen with basal part of 1st segment 

 dark brownish, apical part pale slate-grey; rest of segments grey, 

 with thin yellow pubescence and brown margins ; in the tf the 

 rows of abdominal pubescence are more erect and prominent, 

 forming in both sexes on the side-margins almost bunches of 

 yellow and black hairs intermixed. Wings grey, light brown 

 anteriorly ; halteres blackish brown. 



Length, 11-12 mm. 



Described originally from the $ sex only from India; the tf 

 subsequently described from two specimens from Phagu, Simla 

 Hills, 9000 ft., 12. v. 1909. 



Type ( $ ) in the British Museum, from the Saunders collection ; 

 of the c? c? referred to, one is in the Indian Museum. 



The above description is mainly Lichtwardt's, to which I have 

 added a note or two from the Indian Museum specimen. 



116. Hirmoneura brunnea, Licht. 



Hirmoneura brunnea, Lichtwardt, Deut. Ent. Zeits. p. 645, 

 (1909). 



$ . Near H. coffeala, possibly a seasonal form of it. 



In this species the wings are proportionately much shorter, being 

 only 11 mm. long to a body of 11 mm., plus ovipositor of 2 mm. to 

 3 mm. Apart from the difference in the proportions, the charac- 

 ters are mainly as in II. coffeata ; the pubescence on the sides of 

 the thorax and at the base of the abdomen is yellow, not pale 

 brown ; legs all yellowish red; wings rather duller in colour, and 

 the fore border darker. 



Described by Lichtwardt from a single $ in the British Museum 

 from Trincomali, Ceylon, 3. iv. 1892 (Col. Yerbury). 



117. Hirmoneura ochracea, Licht. 



Hirmoneura ochracea, Lichtwaidt, Deut. Ent. Zeits. p. 643, <^ 

 (1909). 



c? . Very near H. austeni. Body pale brown, with short velvety 

 yellow pubescence, which is longer behind the scutellum and at 

 the base of the abdomen. Eyes with distinctly yellow hairs, 



* According to Lichtwardt ; I call the legs bright yellow, as in H. annandalei. 



