46 Mr. 0. G. Lamb on E.vot'ic CliloropicUe. 



is itself rather miusually long; arista M'hite and clo'^ely 

 pubescent as usual, with the smooth basal joint yellow. 

 The face is shiniu}? black, with silvery lines from the an- 

 tennal bases to the mouth and with silvery lower eye- 

 margins ; paljji black. 



Thorax: the dorsum is finely granulated; the general 

 ground-colour is dark greyish, witli the following black 

 mai'ks : — a broad median line vanishing about halfway, a 

 very fine black line running down the centre of each of the 

 rather obsolescent furrows ; beyond this a broadisli line 

 from just in front of the callus to the side of the scutcllum, 

 interrupted by the grey gi'ound where the cross-suture 

 should be ; last d. c. well developed ; pleura shining black, 

 with oblique row of three pale yellow spots — a triangular 

 one just behind the humeral callus, a sloping one on the 

 mesopleura, a horizontal one above the mid-coxa. Scu- 

 tellum pale orange, nearly flat, hairless, with long crossed 

 terminal bristles and small accessory ones beside the main 

 ones and close to them. 



"Wings clear, with brownish veins ; the venation is not 

 quite as given by Becker for megalops (T., tab. iii. fig. 47) ; 

 the 2nd vein is quite parallel to the 3rtl all the way, and the 

 distances between the ends of 2 to 3 and 3 to 4 are nearly 

 equal. 



Legs orange ; femora progressively more infuscate from 

 front to hind ; last tarsal joints dark. 



Abdomen entirely deep dull black, smooth. 



Size (ex. antcnnie) 3^ mm. 



Cam. Coll., Durban {F. M.). 



To the section with dark and rather rugose scutcllum 

 belong two species. One of these will pass for L. lungicorne 

 of Thomson (Eug. Resa, p. 604). It agrees quite well with 

 what Mould be a dark form of the species, though not so 

 well with Becker's description (L, p. I08j. The remarkable 

 antennae are even longer than may be inferred from the 

 description ; the thorax can be described as black, rather 

 rugose, with three narrow, smoother, gi'ey stripes ; the 

 scutellum like thorax, centrally black, with the sides orange. 



It is possible that we have a new species here, but as there 

 is but the single specimen, it is left provisionally in this 

 species. Thomson's species was from China, this is from 

 S. India. 



Size (ex, antennae) nearly 3 mm. 



Bur. Coll., Coimbatore, Madras Presidency. 



