52 ]\Ir. C. G. Lamb on Exotic ChloropiJas. 



concave sides bordered with liair-lines, and it is the same 

 colour as the t'roiis but shining and suliused across the 

 middli' with pale brown, as shown l)y tlie dotted boundary- 

 line in the figure; the ocellar spot is black; a very distinct 

 but narrow I'urrow runs from front ocellus right to edge of 

 frons. Hind head broadly black, witli pale yellow bordering 

 stripes starting from the vertical bristles. Side-view as in 

 hi;. 1) ; all yellow, the liaired frons more oi'ange, rest quite 

 bare except for a few oral hairs. Anteunaj with yellow 

 basal joints, deep black orbicular third ; arista white, basal 

 joints a little suffuse, pubeseeuce very tine. Face all pale 

 yellow; palpi pale, but just perceptibly infuscate outside at 

 tip ; tongue yellow. 



Thorax : dorsum moderately shining yellow, with black 

 hairs ; three broad black stripes, the middle one beginning 

 on neck and extending to scutcllnm, the side ones abbre- 

 viated in front but meeting the middle one behind, so that 

 they form an almost uninterrupted band on hind dorsum ; 

 small side-lines above the wings run into the main pair ; 

 liumeri pale yellow. Pleura pale yellow ; a shining oval 

 black spot on the lower front angle of the mcsopleura, the 

 nsual black triangle over the middle coxa, and a smallish 

 black oval spot over the hind coxa. 



^Vings normal, clear, thick-veined ; in one of the two 

 specimens both the hind cross-veins are broken in the 

 middle. Halteres bright whitish yellow, with darkened stalk. 



Legs entirely yellow except that the front tarsus and last 

 joints of the otheis are very faintly infuscate. 



Al)domen: dorsum all brown-black, slightly shining, the 

 liind margins of all segments but last very narrowly yellow, 

 the last broadly so ; venter paler. 



Size (ex. antennae) 3i mm. 



Cam. Coll., Peradeniya, Ceylon {J. C. F. Fryer). 



Parectecephala, Beck. 



Parectecephala varifrons, sp. n. 



A species in the Cam. Coll. is best assigned to this genus; 

 the triangle is rather longer than normal according to the 

 descriptions of the known species. 



Head (top view, fig. 12) : — Frons about 2\ times as broad 

 as one eye and about 1^ times longer than broad, projecting 

 about \ its length beyond a line touching the eyes in front; 

 eye-margins parallel, the projecting forehead narrowing a 

 little and ending in a broad pointed tooth overhanging the 



