122 LEPTID-ffi. 



5th segments, iu $ only on the 2nd and 3rd ; 4tli and 5th seg- 

 ments with broad white posterior border in both sexes ; venter 

 yellowish red. Legs very long; in J wholly brownish black, in 

 $ with base of hind femora yellowish. Wings in S pale grey, 

 in middle clear, with a broad irregular dark brown longitudinal 

 stripe ; wings in $ clear, only the tip greyish, and the brown 

 stripe darker. Irons in $ velvet-brown, with white pubescence 

 above antennas ; occiput white-haired; tip of abdomen in <$ pointed 

 and forked, in $ flat, obtuse. 



Length, S-S - 8 mm. 



Ceylon (Nietner). 



The foregoing is a translation of Karsch's description. 



Genus MACELLOPALPUS, Big. 

 Macellopalpus,'Bigot, Bull. Soc. Ent. France, (6) vi, p. xlviii (1886). 

 Genotype, MaceUojxilpus flaveolus, Big. ; by original designation. 



This genus differs from Atriehops in having a smaller 1st an- 

 tennal joint, the 3rd (damaged) " apparently hardly dilated on 

 underside." Palpi quite bare, large, and conspicuously oval 

 on upper side, nearly straight below. Eyes bare. Pulvilli very 

 small. Anal cell closed before the border. 



Bange. India, New Guinea. 



M. faseipennis is distinguished from M. fulvidus by the brown 

 streak across the "wings. 



83. Macellopalpus fulvidus, Brun. (PI. II, fig. 15.) 



Macelhpalpus fulvidus, Brimetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. ii, p. 424, pi. xii, 

 fig. 8 (1909). 



2 . Head with frons parallel-sided, slightly less than one-fifth 

 of the head in width, with a deep vertical central groove, ter- 

 minating before reaching the vertex, on which the three brownish- 

 yellow ocelli are very prominent ; frons just above antennas grey- 

 dusted, the remainder of it shining black, quite smooth ; face 

 below antenna?, aud cheeks, grey-dusted : antennse brownish 

 yellow, 3rd joint darker, with long arista ; proboscis light brown 

 (tip broken off) ; palpi blackish brown, lighter at base ; eyes black, 

 facets of uniform size ; occiput bluish grey, with fringe of yellow 

 hair, which behind the vertex is replaced by two or three irregular 

 rows of stout black bristles. Thorax light brown, with sparse 

 short hair; sides with a slight yellowish tinge; metanotum 

 lighter; scutellum light brown. (Though in the unique type the 

 scutellum is bare, there are traces of it having borne bristles along 

 the posterior border, and others, to a less extent, on the dorsum.) 

 Abdomen light brown, nearly bare; posterior borders of segments 

 narrowly blackish ; venter light brown, with a central blackish 



