298 Mr. E. E. Austen on new 



tibicB each toifh fwo pale bands, which may be so faint as to be 

 indistinguisha ble. 



Head: front mouse-grey, extreme lateral margins, a ring 

 surrounding each lateral frontal spot, and sometimes a 

 narrow median stripe running up to vertex from median 

 frontal spot yellowish grey or light grey; face and jowls 

 smoke-grey, space between antenna and lower inner margin 

 of eye on each side more or less speckled with dark brown 

 or with a more or less distinct dark brown horizontal streak ; 

 clove-brown lateral frontal spots of small or moderate size, 

 not in contact with eyes, median frontal spot small and 

 inconspicuous or obsolete ; frontal callus tawny olive to dark 

 sepia, rather narrow from above downwards, extending from 

 eye to eye, but upper angles sometimes rounded off, upper 

 and lower margins straight or nearly so ; a small and incon- 

 spicuous Vand\ ke-brown spot in middle line below callus; 

 palpi isabella-colourecl, terminal joint moderately stout, 

 clothed on outer side with black hairs ; first and second joints 

 o^ antetmce pale cinnamon, first joint short and small, not or 

 scarcely incrassate, greyish poUinose and clothed with black 

 hairs above, upper' angle of second joint very slightly pro- 

 duced, basal portion of third joint of moderate breadth, 

 tapering but not markedly elongate, last thiee annuli darker, 

 terminal aunulus clove-brown, two preceding annuli burnt- 

 umber coloured. Thorax : dorsum (including scutellum) 

 clothed with short, yellowish, deciduous hairs ; pectus and 

 pleurae smoke-grey or drab-grey ; scutellum with hind border 

 and an ill- defined median stripe yellowish grey. Abdomen : 

 dorsum clothed with short, appressed, pale butf-yellow hairs; 

 olive-brown area in middle of second segment much broader 

 than corresponding areas on subsequent segments, on which, 

 however, an offshoot from median area extends outwards 

 parallel with and in front of hind margin ; venter yellowish 

 grey pollinose, hairy covering as on dorsum, hind margins 

 of segments except first cream-buff', traces of an ill-defined 

 dark median longitudinal stripe, interrupted on hind borders 

 of segments, sometimes distinguishable. Wings : usual three 

 rosettes present, their outlines sometimes consisting of very 

 fine lines, each rosette, apart from two or three light flecks 

 towards centre, and in case of proximal rosette three light 

 blotches occupying base of first submarginal and first poste- 

 rior cells and apex of first basal cell respectively, composed 

 of a single series of markings ; apical sinuous mark simple 

 and apparently obsolescent, widely interrupted in second 

 submarginal cell ; usual series of oblique marks across poste- 

 rior cells distinct, marks in first three posterior cells each 



