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longitudinal until nearly half-way towards its base, where a short 

 stump vein connects the latter with the third longitudinal directly 

 over the upper transverse vein, and where also a distinct appendix 

 is directed backwards. On the upper and lower transverse veins, 

 base of second longitudinal, and at each spot where the veinlet joins 

 this to the third longitudinal is a small suffusion ; also a similar 

 spot in the centre of the upper basal cell. Anterior part of wing 

 slightly yellowish. 



Described from a perfect unique specimen in the Indian Museum 

 collection. A very conspicuous species. 



Exoprosopa annandalei, mihi, sp. nov. 

 (Plate xii, fig. 20, wing). 



$ . lyower Burma. Ivong. 9-12 mm. 



Head. — Vertex, frons and face blackish, with short sparse 

 yellowish hairs, and some stiff bristly black hair on frons which 

 is considerably narrowed on the vertex, where the ocellar triangle 

 is very small. Mouth-opening yellowish, proboscis dark brown, 

 palpi black, short, filamentous, with a single row of hairs Antenna? 

 yellowish, first joint hairy, third rather elongated, with moderately 

 long style. Back of head dark grey, eyes dark brown, with 

 some yellowish hair, which is whitish behind the eyes. 



Thorax. — Blackish ; tawny yellow hair rather thickly placed 

 on fore border, and on the sides, where there is a pale tawn}^ spot 

 on the pleurae. Dorsum nearly bare ( ? denuded). Scutellum 

 Hght brown, posterior border with a row of black spiny bristles 

 and short sparse yellowish hair. Metanotum hidden. 



Abdomen. — Ovate, chestnut-brown (ground colour), with a 

 row of dorsal black irregularly oval spots at the base of each seg- 

 ment, and with traces of a narrow black line almost on the 

 posterior borders of some of the segments. A sparse band (in- 

 terrupted in the middle) of whitish short hairs on the anterior 

 part, and a similar band of blackish hairs on the posterior part, 

 of each segment ; the second segment possessing a basal row of 

 short sparse tawny hairs and a bunch of white longer hair on each 

 side at the base. The short whitish hairs on the dorsum may 

 possibly extend over the greater part of the surface, and appear 

 more like scales than hairs. Belly chestnut-brown, with irregular 

 black marks and with short white scaly hairs generally distributed 

 over it. 



Legs. — Tawny brown, fore coxse similar, posterior coxae black- 

 ish brown ; hind femora with a few hairs below, posterior tibiae 

 moderately covered with short bristles ; tarsi, blackish brown, 

 minutely pubescent below. 



Wings. — Pale grey with a dark brown oblique baso-costal 

 band, which has an indentation on the lower side. The brown 

 colour extends along the costa to the tip of the first longitudinal 

 vein, its outer edge extending posteriorly to just behind the second 



