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and yellowish-white hairs ; in the female the bristles are 

 often yellow. Wrings tinged yellow ; apex and posterior 

 border greyish. Ovipositor short, black. Abdomen with 

 white bristles at sides. 



Length 20-22 mm. 



A small blackish species; the second submarginal cell 

 nearly as long as the first, but distinctly shorter. Moustache 

 white, some black bristles near oral opening. Abdomen with 

 the usual dark spots and grey segmentations. Legs blackish^ 

 thickly covered with white pubescence ; fore femora below at 

 apices and fore tibise below at base reddish ; fore femora 

 unarmed, with long white hairs below, fore tibiae with 

 golden-yellow appressed pubescence below ; hind femora at 

 base with some yellow bristles, also the coxse; on the fore 

 tarsi appear a few white bristles in some specimens, and on 

 the fore tibise, otherwise the bristles are black. 



Length 19 mm.^ as given by Wiedemann. 



Philodicus meridionahs, ^ ? , sp. n. 



This and the following species are both very nearly allied 

 to Philodicus hospes, but differ by the second submarginal 

 cell being shorter, the transverse vein being about the usual 

 distance from the base in this genus. All the three species 

 are small, with abdomen blackish with grey segmentations. 

 This species has black legs, the femora and tibi?e reddish 

 below ; the bristles on the legs black and white ; the fore 

 femora with two black at the most below in the male with 

 soft white hairs ; the female has black and yellow bristles. 

 Moustache yellow. 



Length, J? 12-15, ? 18 mm. 



Types male and female and others all from Ceylon 

 (Yerbury Coll.). 



In I. E. E. Coll. are males and females from Pattikonda, 

 Kurinooi District (J. V. R. Coll.) ; from Marugmala (C. N. 

 Colh); from Coimbatore (A. G. R. Coll., G. N. Coll.); 

 Becravalli Bellary District (C. N. Coll.) and Palur Farm, 

 S. Arcot District (P. S. Coll.), in South India. 



Philodicus fuscipes, (J ? , sp. n. 



Types (male and female) and others from Biserat, Bidor, 

 Putani Cape, Siam {Robinson and Annandale). 



Length, J' 16, ? 16-18 mm. 



A species very nearly allied to the above species from 

 CeyloUj P. meridionalis. 



