of the Family Tabanldaj. 379 



The orij!;iiial description may be araeiulcd thus : — 

 Face bhick, yeUow at the sides^ and with a central short 

 yellow stripe. Abdomen with the first segment pale yellow 

 and a narrow black posterior border ; the second is pale 

 yellow on its anterior border; the black band posteriorly is 

 nearly equal in width to the yellow colour ; the third segment 

 is almost wholly black, with only a narrow yellow border 

 anteriorly ; the two black bands join at the sides, but the 

 second band is entirely straight on its posterior border, thus 

 diflcring from C siynifer, "SVik., which is deeply indented in 

 the centre ; the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh segments are 

 reddish yellow, with obscure black square spots in the centre 

 of the fourth and fifth. The wings are clear, dark at the base 

 and along the fore border to the apex, and Mith the usual 

 transverse band which extends to the posterior border. 



Clirysops striatus, S ? > Wulp, Notes Leyden Museum, vii. 

 p. 79 (1885) ; id. Cat. Dipt. S. Asia, p. G6 (1896). 



One male and one female from Tygosan, Chusau Archi- 

 pelago, 92. 196 [Walker). 



Chrysojis indianus, ^ $ , sp. n. 



One male from Nilghiri Hills, 88. 112 [Hampson) . 



One female from Khasi Hills district, India, 96. 135 

 [Chennell, 1878). 



A species allied to C. d'lspar, Fabr., but in the wing- 

 approaching C. fasciatus, Wiedem. ; it is larger and more 

 rol)ust than C. dispar, Fabr. 



Yellow, with a black bifid stripe on the second segment, 

 enclosing a small, almost round, yellow spot, but the black 

 does not join on the posterior border. 



(J & ? (types). Face yellow, with yellow hairs on the 

 central stripe and at tlie sides. Antennse long and slender, 

 nearly equal in length to the head and thorax, all the joints 

 about equal in length ; yellow, the third joint darker, the 

 first clothed with long black hairs, the second with shorter 

 ones, the third bare. Palpi yellow. Thorax and scutellum 

 brownish, with yellow pubescence, thicker at the sides, the 

 breast the same colour. Abdomen light yellow, the second 

 segment paler; the first segment with a narrow black band on 

 the posterior border, the second with a black stripe which 

 begins in the centre and then divides, sending out a branch 

 on each side reaching to the hind border, and there extending 

 outwards till it cuds in a point ; a small, yellow, oblong spot 

 is thus left in the middle, surrounded by the black, excepting 



