G2 Miss G. Hicai'do on the Asilkuy. 



Neoitamus hindos/ani, ($ ? , sp. n. 



r.Iale (type) from Dharmoti, Kuniaun, 8. 6, 1912, 



Female (type) from same locality, 9. G. 191.2 ; ami other 

 males and females from Slium Ket, 15. 5. 1912; and IJliowali, 

 July 1909, and 20. G. 1912 (Imms Coll.). 



A typical, well-defined, medium-sized species, yellowish 

 grey in colour with dark brown sj)ots on the abdomen, and 

 stripes on the thorax ; tibiae reddish yellow. Moustache 

 yellowish. 



]jeiigth, (? 17, ? 19 mm. 



Male. — Face silky yellosvish, tubercle darker. Moustache 

 thick, yellowish. Beard yellowish. Palpi black, with yellow 

 hairs. Antinace blackish brown, the first two joints with 

 black hairs, tlie arista of third joint as long as the joint. 

 Forehead darker than face with some black hairs. The 

 hairs round head pale yellowish, meeting the postocular 

 bristles, which are black. Thorax with the usual black-brown 

 stripes ; pr^nsutural bristles four, two large and two smaller; 

 sa[)ra-alar three, postalar three to four ; dorso-centr il bristles 

 ten to twelve, not so stout, long fine black hairs are inter- 

 mixed with these, and the pubescence on the dorsum is 

 short, black.' Scutellum with five to seven black bristles on 

 its margin and long yellow hairs on its dorsum. Abdomen 

 ashy grey, covered by a large dark brown spot on eacdi seg- 

 ment ; the segmentations paler, the first segment with many 

 long yellow hairs and a few yellow bristles; these are con- 

 tinued on the sides of the other segments, with about four 

 stout yellow bristles on the posterior border at side of each 

 segment, as far as the fourth segment. Genitalia large, 

 black, a little red below, with black pubescence. Legs 

 black, the tibiae yellowish red, darker at their extreme 

 apices; the fore and mid cox?e with dense white hairs ; the 

 fore femora with white short pubescence and some long, fine, 

 black and yellow hairs below ; the middle femora with four 

 rows of short stout bristles at the base below and on the 

 sides, and two or more Meak yellow bristles at the apex; the 

 hind femora with four yellow short bristles on the upper- 

 side and two near the apex, two weak small black ones at 

 apex, below are long yellow hairs and weak yellow bristles 

 with one or more black bristles intermixed ; tibiae and tarsi 

 with black bristles, the tibiae with pale yellow short pubes- 

 cence on the sides, the middle and hind pair with black 

 pubescence on the inner sides ; the foie tdjiie with two or 

 three long, weak, black bristles. W'litys clear, the grey 



