420 B. Brunetti : Oriental Leptidcs. [Vol. II , 



Athcrix lanopyga, mihi, sp. nov. 



{Chrysopila lanopyga, Bigot^ nom. nud.) 

 (Plate xii, fig. 3, 9 , full insect.) 



$ . Assam. Long. 10 mm. 



Head. — Rather more than the upper half of frons velvet-blacky 

 remainder of frons, the vertex, and face below antennae, black- 

 ish, with bluish grey reflections. Antennae, two basal joints brown 

 (third missing). Eye facets of uniform size. Proboscis and palpi 

 blackish, the latter pubescent above and below. Back of head 

 blackish grey with a continuous fringe of short grey hair. 



Thorax. — Black, with whitish grey reflections at the sides 

 and on the humeri. Scutellum black, with black hairs ; posterior 

 border brown. 



Abdomen. — Mainly black. First segment dark brown, the 

 colour extending as a wide dorsal stripe across the second ; sides 

 of first two segments occupied by a large, light yellow translucid 

 spot. Third segment velvet-black, with a bicoloured spot at the 

 sides of the posterior border, the anterior half of this spot bemg 

 orange, and the posterior half grey ; the orange colour extending 

 along the sides of the abdomen in a streak, until it reaches the large 

 translucent side spots in front of it. Remaining segments black, 

 whitish grey posteriorly, the sides of the sixth and seventh being 

 light orange-brown. Anal process black. Dorsum of abdomen 

 with yellowish hair, which at the tip becomes brown. Belly yellow, 

 with soft, yellow hair, the middle segments with some irregular 

 black marks. 



Legs.— Coxae brown, with bluish white shimmer, and soft, 

 silky white hair ; femora yellow, base of fore pair and basal half 

 of middle and hind pairs, light brown ; tibiae brownish yellow, 

 hind pair darker ; tarsi brownish black. The femora have a little 

 pale yellow hair, which is brown on the tibiae, bright golden brown 

 on hind pair and black on the tarsi. 



Wings. — Pale grey, a faint brown streak from the elongated 

 brown stigma reaches nearly to the posterior border : a small, 

 elongated, clear spot in the middle of the discal and of the fifth pos- 

 terior cells. Discal cell 3^ times as long as broad. Halteres yellow, 

 knobs black. Tegulae pale yellow, transparent. 



Described from one $ in good condition in the Indian Museum 

 collection from Sadiya (Assam). 



[ Atherix calopa, mihi, sp. nov. 



{Id. id.^ Bigot, nom. nud.) 



(Plate xii, fig. 2, abdomen, & .) 



& . Assam and Tenasserim. Long. 8 to 10 mm. 

 Head. — Vertex black ; frons blackish with bluish grey 

 shimmer ; proboscis and palpi blackish, the latter hairy below. 



