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golden yellow in wcll-ijicservctl specimens by reason of the 

 coloured toiuentuni and huirs. Legs, moustaelie, and anteiauu 

 black. 



J.engtii, cJ 12^ It, ? l.Vl 1 mm. 



Mule. — Face blackish with yellowish tomcntnm, tubercle 

 large. Moustaclit' composed ol' tine black hairs and a lew 

 white ones sometimes below, these hairs reaching nearly to 

 the antennic. Palpi blaek-haired. Heard white. Antennie 

 black, the first two joints with black hairs, the third as long 

 as the two joints together ; the arista stout, as long as the 

 third joint. Furehead with a few weak black hairs. Hind 

 part of head with stout black bristles. Thorax in type 

 denuded, in the others brownish with a darker divided median 

 stripe and with side-stripes ; pubescence black with longer 

 black hairs and bristles posteriorly and on the median stripe. 

 Scutellum with short black hairs and three or four black 

 bristles on the border. Ahdoinen black isli c(;v(-red with 

 yellow tomcntum and the segmentations are yellowish; pubes- 

 cence black, with yellow bristles ou the segmentations 

 towards the sides; underside with soft yellow hairs. Geni- 

 talia small, pointed, black, the upper forceps long, simple, 

 club-shaped, under pair in proportion large, but still shorter 

 than the upper pair, both are black, shining, with black 

 hairs. Leys black, with some yellow hairs intermixed with 

 black hairs ou the underside of the femora, and some short 

 yellow pubescence on the uppersides ; tibiie and tarsi with 

 black liairs and bristles, the hind tibiie and tarsi with some 

 oppressed ]>ale yellowish pubescence. IVinys clear, grey ou 

 the apices and fore and post borders, leaving only centre of 

 wing clear, the pcjsttrior branch of the third vein with rather 

 a sharp bend in the middle, the small trausverse vein is just 

 beyond the middle of the discal cell. 



female identical, the hairs of the forehead are n)ore 

 numerous and stronger. Ovifjositor short, black, not so long 

 as the last two joints together. 



The species is probably near Toliueriis nicoharcnsis, Schiner, 

 whose description is rather insulUcient; this species is larger 

 and the bristles on the abdomen are yellow. 



Machimus jjallipes, ^ ?, sj). n. 



Tyjjc (male) from Dharmoti, Kumaon, type (female) from 

 Hhowali, Kumaon, and two other females from liliowali 

 and Dharmoti. All in Forest Research Zool. Coll. {A. I). 

 Iinms). 



A species with a rcddish-yellow-looking abdomen; femora 



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