150 HEMESTBINTDJE. 



black, bind half of 1st and anterior half of 2nd ivory-white, with 

 pale yellowish-white pubescence; remaining segments cinnamon- 

 brown, with short blackish-broAvn pubescence; a little yellowish 

 or whitish pubescence at sides of abdomen from 4th segment to 

 tip; venter reddish brown, with some short yellowish pubescence. 

 Legs : anterior pairs wholly brownish yellow ; hind femora 

 brownish, hind tibiae and tarsi dark blackish brown. Wings 

 pale brownish grey, darker anteriorly ; venation typical, as in 

 H. obscura, Mg. 



Length, 1 b' mm. 



Described originally by Lichtwardt from a type 3 in his col- 

 lection, which, purchased from a dealer, bore the label " Ecuador, 

 iii. 1899." This author subsequently received from the Indian 

 Museum for examination the J specimen from which the above 

 description is drawn up — from the Dawna Hills, Burma, 2000- 

 3000 ft., 3. iii. 1908 {Annandale). 



Type in Herr Lichtwardt's collection, 



114. Hirmoneura opaca, Liclit. (PI. II, fig. 22.) 



Hirmoneura opaca, Lichtwardt, Deut. Ent. Zeits. p. 643, 5 (1909) ; 

 id., Eec. Ind. Mus. ix, p. 334, J (1913). 



d $ . An obscure, blackish, grey-dusted species, with thin soft 

 grey pubescence. Head with ej^es dark brown, pubescent ; frontal 

 stripe in $ not at all broad, barely wider above antennae than 

 at vertex, with thick black pubescence, which is longest above 

 antennae; proboscis, palpi, and antennae black, 1st and 2nd joints 

 of latter grey-dusted and with yellowish-grey hairs ; similar 

 hairs on epistoma, underside of head, and sternum. Thorax 

 with the pubescence more yellowish and longer at the sides ; 

 entire dorsal surface with soft greyish blue hoary dust. Abdo- 

 men with a hardly discernible pattern on the middle of each 

 segment, consisting of a central spot and two oblique lateral 

 spots of a dull blackish-grey colour ; ovipositor rather long, 

 with pale hairs. Legs black ; tibia?, especially hind pair, with 

 such dense bright brown pubescence, that they appear brown. 

 Wings with a blackish tinge and a brownish shading on anterior 

 border. 



Length, 15 mm. 



Described originally from a single $ from the Kangra 

 Valley, N.W. Himalayas, 4500 ft., xi. 1899 {Dudgeon). Fur- 

 ther notes and the 6 described by Lichtwardt in the Rec. Ind. 

 Mus. (Z. c). Several specimens are in the Indian Museum from 

 Mussoorie, the Kangra Valley, 4500 ft., xi. 1899 {Dudgeon), 

 and Simla, but are in very bad condition, nearly all appear to 

 have been immersed in spirit; it also occurs at Dehra Dun, x. 1911 

 {Hoivlett). 



Type in the British Museum. 



The above description is almost entirely Lichtwardt's. 



