410 Mr. E. E. Austen on nsw 



3 ram. ; width of front at vertex just under 1 mm. ; length 

 of sving 8 mm. 



Broivn ; frontal callns large, clove-hroivn or black ; dorsum 

 of thorax bistre, of ahdomen mvmimj- broivn, darker towards 

 tip, hind margins of segments lighter, g?'eyish huff; ivi'-gs 

 sepia-colonred, light markings buff, largely rnoniliform, rosettcS 

 rather indistinct ; femora ochraceous buff, tips brown ; front 

 tarsi and distal half of front tibia black or blackish broivn, 

 basal half of front tibia cream-coloured, clothed with white 

 hair ; middle and hind tibia and tarsi dark mummy-brown, tiv'/ 

 bands on tibia and basal two-thirds of first tarsal Joints buff 

 or cream-buff ; distal half affront tibia expanded. 



Head: front yellowish grey, face and jowls light grey, 

 latter clothed with white hair, lateral frontal dark brown 

 spots large, conspicuous, in contact with eyes when seen 

 fi-om below, median frontal spot very small or wanting ; 

 frontal callus extending, from eye to eye, depth of its sides equal 

 to half its width, upper margin rising to a point in middle 

 line; a clove-brown spot in middle line below callus, with which 

 it is in contact ; paljn buff, last joint elongate, not greatly 

 expanded at base, clothed on outer side with minute black 

 hairs, intermixed with some yellowish hairs towards ba>e ; 

 antenna cinnamon-coloured, basal portion of third joint 

 except extreme base browner, terminal annuli dark brown, 

 last annulus equal or almost equal in length to tw^o preceding 

 annuli taken together, first joint of antennae somewhat ex- 

 panded towards tip, but not markedly incrassate, basal 

 portion of third joint elongate. Thorax : dorsum, including 

 scutellum, clothed with minute shining yellow hairs, easily 

 rubbed off; dorsum marked with three narrow smoke-grey 

 stripes, more or less indistinct except in front, continuiition 

 of admedian stripe on each side marked by a spot behind 

 transverse suture and usual crescentic mark on hind margin ; 

 pleuree and pectus smoke-grey, clothed with whitish hair. 

 Ahdomen : dorsum clothed with minute brownish hairs; hind 

 margins of segments with yellow ish hair, median portion of 

 front margin of second segment sometimes narrowly grey ; 

 venter smoke-grey, clothed witli minute appressed whitish 

 hairs, hind margins of segments except last lighter. Wings : 

 stigma dark mummy-brown, distinct, but brown blotch below 

 it not conspicuous or sharply defined, on other hand brown 

 colour in tip of wing, that is beyond rosette round fork of 

 third vein, somewhat darker than elsewhere ; in extreme tip 

 of wing an irregular curved mark, with its concavity towards 

 apex of wing, runs down from below end of second longi- 

 tudinal vein, and is indistinctly connected with margin in 



