388 Mr. C. G. Lamb on Exotic Chloropidse. 



.^Hippelates ocellata, sp. n. 



Two specimens are present which must be near meso- 

 pienralis, Beck. 



Head (top view) : — Frons orange, the triangle shining, 

 equilateral, the base being about | the breadth of the head at 

 vertex and the point extending about | down to the front ; eyes 

 considerably more densely pilose than in most of the pubescent- 

 eyed species. Side-view : antennae orange, with black and 

 very pubescent arista inserted just supra-apically ; jowls at 

 their narrowest about \- depth of 3rd joint, these and the face 

 whitish and slightly silvery ; hind head orange, slightly 

 darkened around the neck; palpi orange. 



Thorax: dorsum orange, the humeri lighter; just behind 

 each is a perfectly circular black spot ; a long, somewhat 

 oval-ended black spot starts just beyond the middle of the 

 dorsum and extends nearly to the scutellar insertion ; the 

 scutellum is orange, with two long terminal and shorter side- 

 bristles ; in one specimen the central thoracic spot extends 

 over the scutellum, in the other the disc is barely darkened. 

 Pleura shining orange ; the notopleura is blackened just over 

 wing-base; the mesopleura is all very shining black, the 

 metanotum dark shining orange. 



Wings quite normal, clear, with brown veins. Halteres 

 all orange. 



Legs all orange, except that the front tibia and tarsus are 

 infuscate, as is most of the hind tibia; the spine on the latter 

 is inserted before the end and its tip extends to just beyond 

 the articulation of the tibia and tarsus. 



Audomen black and rather shining, the central area of 1st 

 and -2nd segments orange. 



Size, excluding antenna, 2 mm, 



Ceylon: Peradeniya (A. Rutherford). 



Lasiopleuea, Beck. 



The occurrence of this aberrant European genus in Ceylon 

 is of interest. The genus is remaikable in possessing an 

 almost complete Acalyptrate type of cha;totaxy, including a 

 full complement of d.-c. and acrostichal bristles. 



Lasiojdeura zeylanica, sp. n. 



The chajtotaxy is practically as given by Becker (I. p. 131), 

 and will not be further indicated. 



