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related to C. decipiens, Spinola, presents difficulties which 

 can only be overcome in the presence of more material from 

 various localities. 



Coelioxys sexmaculata, Cameron. 



Coimbatore, May 5 (T. V. R.) ; Devanakonda, Aug. 15 

 ( T. V. R.) . Females. 



According to Bingham's table this should have " tarsi 

 with golden pubescence/' a character derived from Cameron's 

 description. The specimens before me have pale ferruginous 

 hair on the inner side of the tarsi only ; the hind basitarsi 

 have white hair on the outer surface. No doubt Cameron 

 referred to this condition. In the case of C. fulvit arsis, 

 which he says is near to sexmaculata, he definitely states that 

 the rufo-fulvous hair is on the under side of the tarsi. 



Ccelioxys pachyrhina, sp. n. 



? . — Length about 1 3'5 mm. ; anterior wing 8 mm. 



Black, including legs and tegulae, except that the an- 

 terior legs, especially the tibia?, are rufescent anteriorly, 

 and the middle legs are also partly rufescent; pubescence 

 forming pure white markings, the white areas including 

 sides of face, cheeks, upper part of pleura, patch before 

 tegulse, spot behind tegulae, sides of metathorax, linear 

 bauds on hind margins of abdominal segments, expanding 

 laterally, broad longitudinal bauds on each side of first 

 segment, base and middle of first ventral segment, and 

 broad interrupted bands on ventral segments 2 to -A ; 

 clypeus very prominent and very strongly keeled (roof-like) , 

 very convex in lateral profile; abroad flattened longitudinal 

 elevation from the front to the upper margin of clypeus ; 

 mesothorax strongly punctured, with a median anterior patch 

 of slightly yellowish pubescence, and there are two yellowish- 

 white spots at base of scutellum ; scutellum rugoso-punctate 

 all over, very broadly rounded ; axillar spines prominent. 

 Wings pale fuliginous ; first r. n. joining second s.m. as far 

 from base as the second from apex; hind spurs pale dull 

 reddish. Abdomen strongly punctured : last dorsal segment 

 elongated, shining, the narrow apical part strongly keeled ; 

 last ventral very narrow, with entire margins, extending far 

 beyond dorsal, and curved downward, its basal margins 

 (under the dorsal plate) fringed with white hair. 



Devanakonda, Kurnool District, India, Aug. 15, 1913 

 (T.V.R.). 



In Bingham's table runs to C. confusa, Smith, from which 

 it is easily known by the structure of clypeus and front. A 



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