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112. Hirmoneura annandalei, Licht. 



Hirmoneura annandalei, Lichtwardt, Rec. Ind. Mas. ix, p. 333 

 (1913). 



c? $ • Very like H. cingulata in size and colour, but separated from 

 all other species except II. basalts by the bare eyes. Mead with 

 Irons hardly narrower in S than § > more than twice as wide at 

 level of antenna? (where it forms a little more than one- fourth the 

 width of the head) than at vertex ; frons with long soft black 

 hairs, face with yellow hairs ; antennse and proboscis both bright 

 yellow; sides of face narrowly yellow. Thorax blackish, with 

 blackish pubescence in middle of disc, yellowish and thicker on 

 anterior margin and towards sides, on shoulders, and in front of 

 and just below wing-base ; soft yellow pubescence on sides 

 of thorax and scutellum ; metanotum pale grey. Abdomen with 

 black anterior half and slate-grey hinder half of 1st segment ; 

 remainder of segments blackish ; 1st segment with black hairs on 

 the black part and thin pale yellowish hairs on the slate-grey part ; 

 remainder of segment with thick, long, bright yellow pubescence 

 on anterior half and shorter black pubescence on hinder half; 

 venter blackish, with short uniform pale yellow pubescence, bind 

 margins of segments yellowish. Legs entirely bright yellow. 

 Wings grey, anterior border brownish ; halteres blackish brown. 



Length, 11-13 mm. 



Described from several of each sex in the Indian Museum from 

 Simla, 7000 ft.. 9. v. 1910 and 16. v. 1910 (Annandale), 3. v. 1914 

 and 29. v. 1914 (Capt. Evans); Kufti, Simla Hills, 11. v. 1909 

 (Annandale)', Kufti to Phagu, 21. v. 1916; Mahabaleshwar, 

 Satara Distr., 4200 ft., 13-16. iv. 1912 (Gravely). 



This species is extremely like H. cingulata, but in addition to 

 the bare eyes it may be recognised by the black hairs on the 

 abdomen being much shorter than the yellow ones, whereas in 

 H. cingulata they are nearly or quite as long as the yellow ones. 



In the present description of this species I have incorporated 

 Lichtwardt's main characters. 



113. Hirmoneura basalis, Licht. 



Hirmoneura basalis, Lichtwardt, Dent. Ent. Zeits. p. 595, fig. 3 

 (1910) ; id., Eec. Ind. Mus. ix, p. 333 (1913). 



S . Head with eyes bare, closely contiguous for a considex-able 

 distance, leaving a grey frons of the shape of an isosceles triangle, 

 covered with long black pubescence ; vertex reduced to the very 

 small ocellar tubercle, with a few black hairs ; face blackish, with 

 yellow margins and pale yellowish hairs; blackish hairs round 

 base of antennae ; latter yellowish brown, basal joint with long 

 stiff black hairs, 3rd joint onion-shaped. Thorax greyish brown, 

 shortly pubescent at sides ; on breast the hairs more greyish 

 white ; scutellum with dense yellowish-brown pubescence. Ab- 

 domen characteristically coloured ; anterior half of 1st segment 



