416 Mr. E. E. Austen on new 



dark with exception of a single transverse light mark before 

 middle. 



Hamatopota cruenta, sp. n. 



? . — Length (1 specimen) 9 mm. ; width of head 3"2 mm, ; 

 width of front at vertex jnst under 1 mm.; length of wing 

 7 mm. 



Clove-hroion, dorsum of abdomen with hind margins of 

 segments and a double series of spots grey ; frontal callus 

 large, black, extending from eye to eye, upper margin pro- 

 duced upwards into a blunt median jyrocess ; a large, circular, 

 shining black median tubercle on face beluiv antennce ; poste- 

 rior margin of thorax and base of scutellum light grey ; 

 infuscation of wings uniform and extending to base, but not 

 dark, light markings distinct, rosettes more or less broken up 

 into spots ; legs black, all tibice with a broad white band close 

 to base, middle tibice with a second narrower band on distal 

 half, first joint of middle and hind tarsi cream-coloured at 

 base. 



Head smoke-grey, front with a brownish mark on each side 

 above lateral spot, sides of face with black blotches (partly- 

 denuded?) and clothed like jowls with whitish hair, lateral 

 frontal and median frontal dark brown spots small, former in 

 contact with or scarcely separated from eyes ; palpi mouse- 

 grey, lighter at extreme tips, clothed with shining whitish 

 hair ; antennce clove-brown, basal portion of third joint some- 

 what lighter and elongate-ovate, first joint short, not or 

 scai'cely incrassate, pollinose, clothed with whitish hairs 

 beneath. Thorax : dorsum with commencements of three 

 pearl-grey stripes in front, further back continuation of each 

 admedian stripe is represented by a small pearl-grey spot 

 behind transverse suture and usual crescentic mark on hind 

 margin, a very narrow continuation of mediaa stripe runs 

 forward from hind margm rather more than halfway to 

 transverse suture; humeral calli pearl grey above; pleurae 

 and pectus mouse-grey, former clothed with whitish hair ; 

 dorsum sparsely clothed with minute shining yellowish hairs. 

 Abdomen: grey hind margin of dorsum of second segment 

 the deepest, first four segments grey on sides, spots on third 

 and fourth segments larger than rest ; first three (really 

 first four) segments of venter grev, remainder clove-brown 

 with grey hind margins; grey areas above and below clothed 

 with minute whitish hairs, tlsewhere abdomen clothed for 

 most part with blackish hair, last segment of dorsum with 

 longer whitish hair on hind margin. IVings with conspicuous 



