10 Mr. E. E, Aiutcn on neio 



scutdlum ; dorsum of abdomen {in fuliy coloured specimens not 

 altered by ]jo>t -mortem chanrjes) transversely and consecutively 

 handed with cream-colour, dark brown, light grey, and mummy- 

 brown. 



Head creani-biiff poUiuoso (occiput light grey), basi- 

 occipital region clothed with yellowish-white linir; front 

 Qiuch broader than in foregoing species, widening slightly 

 below ; ocellar spot greyish clove-brown ; frontal callus 

 ciniuunon, cinnamon-rufous, or light mummy-brown, of 

 normal shape, except that there is a pollinose indentation 

 on each side, forming a constriction, just above lower ex- 

 tremity ; palpi cieam-butf, proxinuil joint clotlied with pale 

 yeliowisii hairs, terminal joint vai'ying in width in ditferent 

 specimens but not particularly attenuated, clothed on outer 

 side with minute black hairs ; antenn<£ short_, first and 

 second joints clothed with minute black hairs, expanded 

 portion of third joint ochraceous-bufF, unusually broad from 

 above downwards, with nothing in the shape of au up[)er 

 branch, but with the upi)er margin rising in the centre 

 into a prominent angle, four distal aunuli clove-brown or 

 black, unusually short, of uniform width, terminal annulus 

 ending bluntly. Thorax : dark dorsal stripes commencing 

 just behind level of humeral calli, median stripe usually 

 reaching scutellum but jjaired stripes not extending beyond 

 postalar calli; dorsum clothed with short, ap[)ressed, pale 

 yellowish hair, and with blackish hair on dark brown scutellar 

 spot, which occupies whole of upper surface of scutellum 

 except margin ; pleurae and pectus clothed with yellowish- 

 Avhite hair ; mesopleurae dark brown below, steruopleune 

 also largely dark brow n on each side of middle line, but in 

 both cases ground-colour partially concealed by the light 

 grey pollen clothing pleuraj, pectus, and sides of dorsum. 

 Abdomen : dorsum in fully coloured ami unaltered specimens 

 marked as follows, — first segment and anterior third or half 

 of second cream-coloured; remainder of second segment 

 and third segment entirely dark brown ; fourth segment 

 light grey, more or less dark brown, oehraceous-bulf, or 

 cinnamon on front border; remaining segments mummy- 

 brown, hind margins of fifth and sixth segments greyish ; 

 the front margin of the dark brown band is often somewhat 

 irregular, but in the middle line frequently sends out a 

 triangular |)ri)jeetion, which docs not quite reach the posterior 

 edge of the first segment ; in imjierfectly coloured specimens, 

 or such as show post-mortem changes, the dark brown band 

 is less sharjjly dciincd, and frequently exhibits irregular 

 patches of paler (mummy-browin colour near the front 



