igo^.] Records of the Indian Musenin. gi 



Abdomen : tricolorous ; greenish yellow, black and tavviiv 

 orange, in about equal proportions. Difficult to decide on a ground 

 colour. The best plan is to consider the abdomen as black ; ist 

 segment very narrow, brownish, with some hairs. On each of the 

 2nd, 3rd and 4th segments are a pair of arched greenish yellow 

 lunules of uniform width, almost contiguous at the base of the 

 segmLcnt, and curving thence (convex side uppermost) to the ])os- 

 terior corners, where they attain the border, slightly widened. 

 These lunules are repeated on the 5th segment, on which thev are 

 almost perpendicular. The posterior border of the 2nd, 3rd and 

 4th segments is tawny orange, being much wider in its centre on 

 the 2nd segment ; whilst on the 3rd and 4th segments it spreads 

 forwards in the shape of a triangle, of which the apex distinctly 

 o.ttains the base of the segment, where it separates the two lunules. 

 Tliis pattern is repeated on the 5th segment, but in a more exagger- 

 ated form perpendicularl}^ (as though laterally compressed) ; thus 

 reducing the black part between the yellow lunules and the orange 

 triangle to two narrow streaks. The whole dorsum is very sparsely 

 covered with short yellow hairs, and there is a fringe of very short 

 black hairs along the edge of the whole abdomen, and a bunch of 

 yellowish hair on the anterior corners of the abdomen. Genitalia 

 inconspicuous. 



Legs : fore coxse greenish yellow, bare ; posterior coxas, 

 dark brown, shining, with a little brownish hair. Femora and 

 tibise mainly greenish yellow, distal half of hind femora and tibiae, 

 and all the tarsi^ wholly, tawny orange. IvCgs practically bare, but 

 the femora have some ver}' short light ^xllow hairs on the under side. 



Wings pale grey ; anterior border slightly tawny ; subcostal 

 cell dark gre^'. Halteres pale 3'ellow. Tegulse whitish, with tawny 

 edges and a little yellow^ hair. 



Described from a unique cfl,. in my own collection, sent by 

 Mr. B. Green, taken at Kandy (Ceylon), December 1907. The 

 specimen is perfect, except for the missing antennae. At first I 

 thought it was the o' of my sexfasciaUun , but am now convinced it 

 is quite distinct. The three colours in the abdomen stand out very 

 clearh\ 



MICRODON, Mg. 



Six species are given in V. d. Wulp's catalogue ; to which are 

 added the following : — 



M. obscurus, V. d. Wulp, 1898, Ternies. Fiizet., xxi, 421 ; 



Papua. 

 M. mctallicus, Meijere, 1904, Bijd. Dierk., xvih, 98; Darji- 



ling. 



M. annandaleit niihi, sp. nov. (PI. xiii, fig. 10.) 



. cf . Nepal (Soondriial). Long. 9!^ mm. 



Head black ; frons narrowed just above antennae, covered 

 with close silver-white hair, only visible from above ; vertex 



