344 Mr. E. E. Austen on 7iew 



connected with the frontal callus ; face broad and relatively 

 flat, not tumid or prominent ; facial tubercles iu the shape of 

 a vertically elongate, rectangular, shining clove-brown spot 

 below each antenna ; eyes large, descending to lower margin 

 of head, no shining spot on jowls ; face, jowls, and upper 

 half of front clothed with fairly long, pale yellowish liair; 

 palpi ochraceous-buff, proximal joint clothed below with long 

 bufl'-yellow hair, terminal joint moderately large, its proximal 

 portion fairly broad, and its outer surface clothed with short, 

 appressed, buff-yellow hairs, and dark brown in centre ; 

 antennce 2'5 mm. long, first two joints of approximately 

 equal length and each about three- fourths as long as third 

 joint, first and second joints cylindrical and of equal thick- 

 ness, clothed with short black hair, first joint not incrassate, 

 second and third joints dark brown, second joint paler 

 (cinnamon) on inner side, first joint cinnamon, brownish at 

 tip on upper side. Thorax : dorsum on each side with a 

 broad yellowish pollinose stripe extending from humeral to 

 post-alar callus ; dorsum (including scutellura) clothed with 

 erect pale straw-yellow hair ; pleurne yellowish pollinose, 

 clothed with straw-yellow hair. Abdomen : ochraceous-buff 

 area at hase of dorsum extending to distal angles of second 

 segment ; first segment with a clove-brown, median, quadrate 

 blotch, extending beyond scutellum, but not reaching hind 

 margin of segment ; clove-brown transverse band on second 

 segment in contact with front margin in centre, but curving 

 away from front margin on each side and diminishing in 

 depth, somewhat emarginate posteriorly in middle line, 

 separated from hind margin of segment by a space equal to 

 about one-fourth of the lergth of latter, and not or only 

 indistinctly reaching lateral margins of segment ; clove- 

 brown bands on five following segments each in contact with 

 anterior margin throughout their extent, separated from 

 hind margin by roughly one-third of length of segment in 

 each case, tapering somewdiat tow^ards each side, and not 

 quite reaching actual lateral margins of segments ; bands on 

 second to fourth segments inclusive clothed, except on sides, 

 with short dark brown hair; sides of first segment clothed 

 with straw-yellow hair, those of second and third segments 

 clothed with short, appressed, buff-yellow hair : hair on ex- 

 treme lateral margins longer, forming a fringe ; venter 

 ochraceous-bviff, clothed \uth appressed buff-coloured hair, 

 second segment with an ill-defined, dark, transverse band in 

 middle, not reaching sides, anterior borders of following 

 segments infuscated. Wbigs: extreme base, costal border 

 above and as far as end of first longitudinal vein, stigma^ and 



