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XVI. — New Species 0/ Hsematopota /row India. 

 By Gertrude Hicardo. 



These species were handed to me for identitioation by the 

 Imperial Bureau of Economic Entomology, the types to be 

 given to the British Museum Collection. 



Hvematopota monfanus, ? , sp, n. 



Type (female) and another from Bababuddin Hills, 

 Mysore, 4i703 ft., vi. I9I5 (Ramakreshna Coll.). 



A small species allied to tlematopota latifascia, Ricardo 

 (•'Records Indian Museum,' iv. p. 355, 19II), having one 

 broad band extending across the apex of wing, but dis- 

 tinguished from it by the absence of a black baud on the 

 face. 



Length of type 8 mm. ; the other female 10 mm. 



Face covered with grey tomentum and with small dark 

 browu spots on the upper part, in the other female there is 

 a trace of a black bund on the lower edge; there is also a 

 dark spot between the antennie ; hairs on face scanty, white. 

 Palpi pale yellow with black hairs. Antenna long and 

 slender; the first joint as long as the first annulatiou of the 

 third joint, only slightly incrassate, yellow with black 

 pubescence ; the second one very small, blackish; the third 

 yellowish at base, then dusky ; slender throughout. Fore- 

 head same colour as face ; the frontal callus blackish brown, 

 reaching the eye^, straight on both borders; the j^aired spots 

 the same colour, touching the eyes, but not the band; some 

 black pubescence on forehead. Thorax yellowish brown 

 with appressed yellow hairs and some black ones ; scutellum 

 same colour with black luiirs. Abdomen mummy-brown, 

 with pale yellow segmentations and an obscure pale median 

 stripe; pubescence black, some yellow hairs at apex ; under- 

 side paler. Legs yellowish with blackish-brown rings ; fore 

 femora rather dusky and the others dusky at their apices ; 

 tibite at base and apex blackish and a black ring in middle, 

 the fore tibije white at base, fore tarsi wholly black, on the 

 otlier tarsi the basal joint is pale yellow; pubescence on 

 dark parts black, on the pale jjarts white; fore tibiie in- 

 crassate. PVings with the usual rosettes; the apical band 

 starts from the junction of the first vein with the border 

 and attains the posterior border, it is rather sinuous on both 

 borders; on the posterior border pale spots are present in 

 every cell: veins and stigma brown. 



Ann. c£* May. X. //Ist. Ser. S. I'ol. xix. 15 



