170 CYKTIDJE. 



129. Oncodes octomaculatus, Bvun. (PI. II, figs. 28, 29.) 



Oncodes octomaculatus, Bmnetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. vii, p. 476 (1912). 



$ . Head with eyes very dark reddish brown, bare; vertex and 

 back of head blackish ; two ocelli present. Antennae normal 

 (apparently, as they are not properly visible), terminated by a long 

 arista, which is slightly thickened at the base, and is thinnest in 

 the middle, the tip provided with two minute stiff: hairs. Thorax 

 brownish yellow, with three dorsal clear-cut black stripes of 

 moderate and equal width, the median one attaining the anterior 

 margin, the outer ones considerably foreshortened ; hinder part of 

 dorsum all blackish, the colour extending to the scutellum ; the 

 metanotum brownish yellow ; a short black streak (which in one 

 specimen forms nearly a complete circle) on each side in front, 

 below each shoulder, sometimes joined to the tips of the outer 

 dorsal stripe ; a small blackish mark at base of wing, and the 

 underside of the thorax mainly blackish. Thorax with a little 

 light yellow pubescence generally distributed both on dorsum and 

 sides. Abdomen mainly blackish, with light yellowish pubescence ; 



Fig. 13. — Oncodes octomaculatus, Brun., wing. 



hind margins of segments narrowly pale yellowish white, the 

 colour widest on 5th segment ; 2nd segment with two large oval 

 greyish-white spots nearly filling the dorsum, but quite clear of 

 the borders in all directions ; 3rd and 4th segments each with a 

 pair of moderate-sized brownish-yellow spots, one on each side of 

 the middle ; 5th segment with an elongated similarly coloured 

 spot, clear of the borders in all directions, and nearly filling the 

 segment ; 6th segment much smaller, practically a replica of 

 the 5th ; lateral margins of each segment occupied by a shining 

 black elongate spot, which does not overlap the pale hind margin. 

 Venter pale yellowish; sometimes (in one example) a black spot 

 towards the lateral margins as on dorsal surface. Legs brownish 

 yellow ; hind pair with coxas more or less at base, femora at base 

 and a broad subapical band, and tibiae and tarsi almost wholly, 

 brown or blackish. Wings yellowish grey ; venation normal ; 

 squamae dirty grey, shortly and closely pubescent, and of the 

 normal enormous size. 



Length, 4 mm. 



Described from two <5 6 in the Indian Museum, from Igat- 

 puri, Western Ghats, Bombay Presidency, 20. xi. 1909 (Annan- 

 dale); Nasik, Bombay Pres., hi. 1911. 



