412 Mr. E. E. Austen on new 



of entirely brown^ as well as by certain differences in the 

 wing-uiarkiugs. 



Hcpmatopota vexans, sp. n. 



$ . — Length (1 specimen) 6'5 mm. ; width of head 

 225 mm. ; width of front at vertex 1 mm. ; length of wing 

 66 mm. 



Small brown species, ivith dark hrown distinctly marhed 

 wings ; thorax dark sepia-coloured, front part of dorsum loith 

 beginnings of three narrow grey stripes ; scutellum smoke-grey ; 

 abdomen uniform clove-brown, dorsum with hind margins of 

 segments except last narrowly pearl-grey ; icings with cream- 

 coloured light markings, rosettes somewhat confused, a con- 

 spicuous transverse light mark connecting tip of second and 

 that of loioer branch of third vein, and a light mark in distal 

 angle of each posterior cell, on hind margin ; legs dark hrown, 

 all tibia with narrow indistinct pale band close to base, middle 

 tibite ivith a second indistinct pale band below middle, first 

 joint of middle and hind tarsi except tip cream or cream-buff, 

 other joints pale at base, first joint of front tarsi except tip 

 mummy-brown ; front tibice incrassate. 



Head : front wdde, mouse-grey^ face and jowls pearl-grey, 

 latter clothed with whitish hair, face on each side with a 

 narrow, horizontal, dark brown streak belo^' level of an- 

 tennae ; lateral frontal dark brown spots larg^e, conspicuous, 

 each surrounded by a distinct light grey ri'ig and narrowly 

 separated from eye, median frontal spot sm^l^ inconspicuous ; 

 frontal callus seal-brown, narrow from alove doM^nwards in 

 centre, but deeper at sides, running straight across from eye 

 to eye, upper margin straight, a conspicuoiis quadrate clove- 

 brown spot in middle line below, in contact with lower 

 margin of ciillus ; basal joint of palpi ■*'ark brown, clothed 

 with long whitish hairs below and blacl hairs on outer side, 

 terminal joint drab-grey or mouse-gn-y, relatively large, 

 elongate, somewhat swollen, blunt at ti>^ clothed on outer 

 side with blackish and below with v-iVowish hair ; first and 

 second joints of ffH/e??;/* russet, thff\ joint mummy-brown, 

 last three annuli clove-brown, first ioint somewhat elongate, 

 not incrassate, curved, with concave side outwards, upper 

 angle of second joint blunt, ba^^l portion of third joint 

 elliptical, terminal annuli flatt("ed from side to 'side. 

 Thorax : dorsum (including scut-'Hum) clothed with minute 

 pale yellowish hairs, continuation of admedian stripes in 

 shape of a small grey spot on .^ich side behind transverse 

 suture, and usual crescentic m;'ks on hind margin, con- 

 tinuation of median stripe distnct from midway between 



