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Mr; C. G. Lamb on Exotic Chlovopidae. 



Thorax shining black, very finely roughened, with regular 

 rows of the above-mentioned hairs. Scutellum rounded, dull, 

 more roughened than thoracic dorsum, with four short pale 

 terminal bristles. Pleura shining black, the notopleural 

 bristles pale. 



Wings (fig. 17) pale, with whitish veins. Halteres shining 

 black. 



Legs : all coxa? black, trochanters orange, femora black 

 except knees, tibiae orange with broad black rings, smallest 

 on the front pair ; tarsi orange. 



Abdomen all shining black. 



Size If mm. 



Ceylon : Peradeniya {A. Rutherford). 



Epimadiza, Beck. 



There are two new species of this interesting little form, 

 one represented by several specimens, one by a single very 

 perfect specimen. 



Epimadiza nigra, sp. n. 



Head (top view) : — All very shining, slightly bluish black, 

 the triangle only demarcated by its border-lines of very faint 

 hairs ; the triangle extends about half across the vertex 

 basally and its point is about midway to the frons ; the bristles 



Fig. 18. 



Epimadiza nigra, X 30. 



are outer verticals, widely separate p. v., tiny ocellar, a few 

 just visible f.o. The face is orange ; antennae darkish 

 orange, just separated at the base by a tiny ridge, inserted in 

 pits, arista hair-like and orange; palpi orange. Side-view: 



