igo8.] Records of the Indian Museum. 55 



Abdomen black, with an unbroken, deep brown raised edge 

 around the entire dorsal surface, closel}^ beset with verv short 

 bristles : ist segment greenish black, sub-metallic, very short 

 2nd segment aenous at base, with two orange elongated spots, 

 placed transversely, forming a band, interrupted in the centre ; 

 this band being enlarged at the ends (foreshortened in front) in 

 the cf , and contracted at the ends and barely attaining the ridged 

 edges of the segment in the ? . A bunch of 3'ellow hairs on the 

 shoulders of this segment in both sexes. 



Dideoides ovata, mihi, sp. nov., $. Dideoides ovata, mihi, sp. nov., $. 



The 3rd segment bears a transverse orange band across the 

 centre, the anterior edge being slightly convex forward, the posterior 

 edge forming two straight lines narrowing the band in its centre 

 and leaving the remainder of the segment as a flattened black 

 triangle, the extreme posterior edge being sub-metallic dark brown 

 with a fringe of very short black hairs. The sides of this orange 

 cross-band are parallel with the sides of the abdomen, to the ridges 

 of which they extend. 



On the 4th segment is a similar, 1iut rather narrower and slightl}^ 

 more arched band, with a second orange band (as a flattened 

 triangle, sub-metallic posteriori}') on the posterior part of the 

 segment, the extreme edge of which is sub-metallic brassy, with 

 a fringe of longish yellowish hair. The 9 shows no trace of the 

 sub-metallic tinge. The 5th segment is orange, with black at 

 the base in some specimens of ^r cf ; yellow haired. The whole 

 abdomen bears yellow hairs on the yellowish parts (longest towards 

 the tip), and shorter, black hairs on the black parts. Genitals : in 

 the cf rather prominent, orange, with some short black hairs; in 

 the $ small, elongated, dark coloured. 



Belly in the cf black with narrow yellowish bands at tne junc- 

 ture of the segments, widest on the posterior border of the 2nd. 

 In the 9 black, with two semi-circular large yellow spots at the 

 base of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th segments ; the posterior border of 

 the 1st, widely, of the 3rd, narrowly, and of the 2nd, very narrowly 

 (with enlargements at the corners) yellow. Bellv nearly bare, a 

 little short yellow sparse hair. 



Le^s : coxK and base of femora black with some short black 

 hair ; remainder of legs entirely orange-yellow, the u]:iper sides 



