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Abdomen : ist segment broadly semi-circular, of exactly the 

 same shape and size as scutehmn, 2nd very pedicillate, 3rd narrow 

 at base, thence sharply widening ; general colour of abdomen 

 black, moderately shining, with rather long blackish grey hairs 

 at sides of 2nd and 3rd segments, and faint traces of a pair of spots 

 at the middle of the sides of 3rd segment, and towards the base (at 

 the sides) of 4th segment. 



Legs pale tawny, hind femora and tibite with a dark l:)and 

 towards the tip. hind tarsi blackish. 



Wings blackish, nearly clear at base. vStigma black, much 

 elongated and a blackish cloud immediately below it, and a small 

 blackish spot at extreme tip of costa. 



Described from one cf taken by Dr. Annandale (iq-22-ix-o6) 

 at Bhim Ta^ , Kumaon, now in the Indian Museum collection. 



B. tinctipennis, mihi, sp. nov. (PI. xi, lig. 6.) 

 2 . Ivower Himalayas (Bhim Tal, 4,500 feet). Long. 8-9 mm. 



Head : front broad, narrowing towards vertex, grey dusted, 

 nearly wholly occupied above antennse by a broad black band 

 with ill-defined edges; filling the whole vertex, and resolving 

 itself into a shining black callosity above antennae. Under side 

 of face grey dusted, with a black central line, slightly prominent ; 

 mouth-border and proboscis tawny ; antenna:; tawny. 



Thorax shining black with minute grey pubescence ; humeri 

 and a vertical short stripe just before base of wing, pale ; scutel- 

 lum shining black, immediately above the pronotum, giving the 

 appearance of two scutelli^ one abo\ e the other. 



Abdomen brown, ist segment wholly pale 5'ellow ; extreme 

 tip of 2nd, base of 3rd and 4th, and t^^'o very small spots on the 

 sides at the base of 5th, pale yellow-brown. 



Legs pale yellow, a brown ring at tip of hind feniora ; hind 

 tibiae brown, except base and tips ; hind tarsi darker. 



Wings clear, iridescent, a dark brown oblong spot forming a stig- 

 ma^ and a dark spot at tip of subcostal cell, also at tip of wing , 

 the discal cross-vein, and a streak from just below tlie medias- 

 tinal vein down to and enclosing the lower cross-vein blackish. 



Described from one 5 taken by Dr. Annandale (22-27-ix-o6) at 

 Bhim Tal, Kumaon, now in the Indian Museum collection. vSome 

 specimens taken by me at Kobe in Japan, T5-V-06, which I con- 

 sider to be the same species, differ on1^• in the ist abdominal seg- 

 ment being all black instead of yellow. 



I also, took at Darjiling and I.ucknow respectively a sj^ecimen 

 each of what ma}' be two additional new species. 



Of B. dispar, Wlk., a 2 named by Bigot is in the Indian Museum 

 collection — this being the only other Oriental species I have seen. 

 Van der Wulp added in 1898 (Termes. Fiizet. , xxi, 423) two species 

 from Papua new to his list ; these were rubella and mundula. 



