138 lepxidjE. 



100. Chrysopilus similis, sp. nov. 



Very near C. yravelyi, differing in the 2nd and 3rd antennal 

 joints and the palpi being yellow, not black ; labella bright, 

 brownish yellow ; 1st abdominal segment and base of 2nd 

 yellowish ; ernarginations of segments yellowish brown ; sides of 

 abdomen and venter mainly so also; suffusion at wing-tip lighter 

 and less well defined proximally. 



Length, 7g mm. 



Described from a single S in the British Museum from Madul- 

 sima, Ceylon, 15. v. 1908 (T. B. Fletcher). 



101. Chrysopilus magnipennis, Brun. 



Chrysopilus magnipennis, Brunetti, Bee. Iud. Mus. hi, p. 213 (1909). 



2 • Head mainly brownish yellowish grey, a little darker here 

 and there, especially just above the base of the antennae ; ocellar 

 triangle distinct ; antennae black, the joints subequal in length, 

 2nd narrowly white at tip, 3rd with grey hair, style long ; palpi 

 blackish brown, with brownish-grey dust ; proboscis blackish 

 brown, with a few hairs ; underside of head with a little black 

 hair. Thorax (denuded) black, also at sides ; traces of grey hairs 

 and some golden-yellow hairs around base of wings and on 

 scutellum. Abdomen black, with moderately close grey hairs, with 

 which are intermixed some golden-yellow ones ; venter with grey 

 hairs. Leys wholly yellowish, except coxae, a very narrow ring at 

 base of femoi-a, and the tarsi tips, which are black. Wings 

 practically clear ; venation as in my C. segmentatus, except that 

 the upper branch of the 3rd longitudinal vein takes towards its 

 tip a slight downward curve, thence curving rather sharply up- 

 wards to the costa, and enclosing a well-marked, large, dark 

 brown stigma; halteres black, club yellowish. 



Lenyth, 4g mm. ; wing, 6^ mm. 



Described from a $ in my collection from Maskeliya, Ceylon 

 (E. E. Green). 



102. Chrysopilus flavopilosus, sp. nov. 



d . Head with eyes, contiguous for a considerable space, upper 

 facets dark chocolate-brown, lower ones black; ocellar triangle 

 dark grey, bare except for a few microscopic bristles behind ; 

 frons, face, and cheeks, which are very receding, ash-grey, as is 

 also the basal half of the proboscis; palpi brown, with yellow 

 hairs : lower (cylindrical) part of proboscis yellowish or brownish, 

 with a little pale pubescence ; antennae blackish, a little ash-grey 

 about the tips of the joints, ai-ista grey ; occiput ash-grey, with 

 some pale pubescence, lower part of head with pale yellow hairs. 

 Thorax, with scutellum, blackish grey, wholly covered with very 



