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yellow; antennae brown, 1st and 2nd joints bristly; occiput dark 

 grey, with yellowish scales around eye-margins. Thorax black, with 

 long bright ferruginous scales or bristly hairs on anterior margin, 

 below shoulders, and on posterior calli ; dorsum (denuded) evi- 

 dently more or less covered with very short yellow scale-like hairs 

 closely applied, which towards the sides and hind margin are 

 thinner and longer ; lower part of thorax bare, with ferruginous 

 marks.* Abdomen elliptical ; black, the sides more or less broadly 

 brick-red; this coloration is very variable in quantity, as in one 

 specimen it only moderately narrowly borders the abdomen, and in 

 another one it extends so far inwards as to reduce the black part 

 almost to a dorsal row of spots. Bunches of ferruginous elongate 

 scales at each side of 1st and 2nd segments, and a small tuft of 

 stiff black hairs at the sides of each segment ; dorsum thinly covered 

 with short tawny yellow scales and black hairs ; last segment red- 

 dish, black at the middle of the base ; venter brownish bi'ick-red, 

 with sparse yellow hair-like scales. Legs (mainly missing) tawny 

 brown : fore coxae with rather long yellow hairs ; hind femora and 

 tibiae with short black spines. Wings dark brown, tip and 

 posterior border nearly to tlie base irregularly and indistinctly 

 clear, the clear part extending into the discal cell ; traces of a 

 small round clear spot in upper corner of 2nd basal cell ; alulae 

 and alar squamae with dirty brown elongate scales. 



Length, 14-18 mm. 



Described from three $ $ in the Indian Museum from Calcutta ; 

 and Talewaddi, 1ST. Kauara Distr., 3-10. x. 1916 {Kemp). 



149. Exoprosopa annandalei, Brun. (PI. Ill, fig. 8.) 



Exoprosopa annandalei, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. ii, p. 469, pi. xii, 

 fig. 20 (1909). 



5 . Head with vertex, frons, and face blackish, with short sparse 

 yellowish hairs, and some stiff bristly black hairs on frons, which 

 is considerably narrowed on the vertex, where the ocellar triangle 

 is very small; mouth-opening yellowish, proboscis dark brown; 

 palpi black, short, filamentous, with a single row of hairs ; antennae 

 yellowish, first joint hairy, third rather elongated, with moderately 

 long style ; back of head dark grey ; eyes dark brown, with some 

 yellowish hairs, which are whitish behind the eyes. Thorax 

 blackish ; tawny-yellow hairs rather thickly placed on fore border, 

 and on the sides, where there is a pale tawny spot on the pleurae ; 

 dorsum nearly bare (? denuded). Scutellum light brown, posterior 

 border with a row of black spiny bristles and short sparse 

 yellowish hairs ; metanotum hidden. Abdomen ovate, chestnut- 

 brown (ground-colour), with a row of irregularly oval dorsal 

 black spots at the base of each segment, and with traces of a 

 narrow black line almost on the posterior borders of some of the 

 segments ; a sparse band (interrupted in the middle) of short 



* Possibly due to discoloration. 



