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PARAGUS, Latr. 



P. luteus, mihi, sp. nov. (PL xi, fig. i.) 



2 . Persia (Bushire). Long. 5 mm. 



Head pale yellowish white, vertex black, with a thin stripe 

 (slightly enlarged in the middle) leading to a large black roughly- 

 square shining spot above antennae. Antennae brown, base paler. 

 Frons gradualh^ narrowed towards vertex. 



Thorax wholly shining aenous, a whitish hairy stripe, com- 

 mencing in front of the insertion of the wings, and reaching down- 

 wards ; scutellum yellow, base black. 



Abdomen yellow, basal segment black, and a thin black line 

 almost (but not absolutely) on the border of 2nd segment, a similar 

 line just below centre of 3rd segment, and a black mark on each 

 side at the edge of the 4th segment. 



Legs all yellow, a brown ring towards tip of hind femora. 



Wings absolutely clear, no stigma. 



Described from the above type in the Indian Museum collection. 



P. serratus, F. 



A common species variable both in size, and coloration of the 

 abdomen. The species is the only one with serrated scutellum, 

 and the specimens in the Indian Museum collection, added to those 

 of my own collecting, show a distribution from Calcutta to Nepal 

 and reaching as far west as Karachi and as far south as Bangalore, 



PIPIZELLA, Rond. 

 P, indica, mihi, sp. nov. 



'S 9 . Lower Himalayas (Simla and Nepal). Long. 5 mm. 



Head yellow ; vertex, eyes, mouth and proboscis black. A 

 black central line on the frons in the 5 , which slightly' narrows on 

 the vertex ; just below the antennae it is hardly one-third the width 

 of the head. 



Thorax smooth, shining black, with a little gold-l^rown hair on 

 the posterior half, and a little wdiite hair on the lower anterior 

 portion of the sides. 



Abdomen shining black, minutely pubescent, especially on last 

 segment, and distinctly so along the sides of all the segments. 



Legs tawny ^^ellow, basal half of the four anterior, and basal 

 three-fourths of the hind femora black ; tibiae yellowish white to- 

 wards the base. 



Wings clear, stigma very pale yellow : halteres yellow. 



Described from a a" and two 2 2 in the Indian Museum col- 

 lection from the Simla district and from Katmandu in Nepal. 



The genus has not previously been recorded from the East. 

 This species does not agree with any European one known to me, 



