species of Tahawdx. 57 



wliereas in this species the face and foreliead are both black 

 and the gold bands on the abdomen are absent. 



A black species with brownish wings, some golden pubes- 

 cence on the thorax and on the sides of the abdomen. Legs 

 yellow, femora black. 



Face black, shining, the cheeks dull black, the pubescence 

 black, a few yellow hairs being intermixed. Forehead 

 black, obscurely red near the antenna^ with light half-moon 

 circles round their base ; from the base of the frontal heart- 

 shaped callus proceed three short furrows on each side, from 

 its apex spring the beginnings of four raised lines which 

 resolve themselves at once into the broad shining frontal 

 stripe; on the vertex is a large red, oblong, ocelligerous 

 tubercle. Antennae dull red ; palpi red, large, the second 

 joint twice as long as the first, broad at its base, tapering 

 gradually to a point, with a furrow on its basal half. Pro- 

 boscis as long as the thorax, which is dull black with golden 

 pubescence on the shoulders, on the sides of the suture ex- 

 tending halfway across the dorsum and on the posterior 

 border, and a tuft at base of wings; the scutellum has traces 

 of similar pubescence on its posterior border. Abdomen 

 black, somewhat shining, very obscurely red on the sides of 

 the second segment, with yellowish-white pubescence on the 

 sides of the first and second segments and traces of similar 

 pubescence on the third and fourth ; the fifth, sixth, and 

 seventh are red on their extreme lateral margins; the dorsum 

 of the abdomen is finely punctuate, apparently devoid of 

 pubescence; the underside is black, shining, with fine white 

 hairs on the sides of the segments, most noticeable on the 

 second one. Legs yellowish, the femora reddish brown, the 

 apices of the tibiae and tarsi dull red. Wings hyaline, brown 

 at tlie apex ; veins red on the fore border and at base, else- 

 where brown, with an appendix ; the first posterior cell is 

 open, but very narrow where it attains the border. 



Length 18 mm. 



Ilamatopota cili'pes, ? , Bigot, Nouv. Archiv. Mus. llidt. 

 Nat. Paris, 1890, vol. ii. p. 205. 



The type came from Laos, a district of Siam, and was seen 

 by me in the Paris i\Iuseum after my paper on llccmatopota 

 had gone to the printers. 



It should go in the table published on p. 114 of the 

 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xviii. (August 190(5), under the 

 heading " 15 " preceding //. lata, Kicardo, thus : — " Black 



