igog.] Records of the Indian Museum. 481 



•'-': 'Abdomen. — Ground colour apparently blackish brown, thickly, 

 clothed with yellowish and whitish hair, which is generally yellowish 

 on the basal segments and apical one, and generally whitish on,, 

 the others, but variable. Sides of third and fourth segments with 

 thick tufts of white hair, and the sides of the fifth segment with a 

 tuft of black hair ; posterior borders of second and subsequent 

 segments each with a row of closely placed, black, strong, erect spines, 

 forming two arcs when viewed from behind {vide figure 27). Belly 

 blackish, dorsum of segment with w^hite pile, some black spines 

 towards the tip. 



-'Legs. — Blackish brown, with small spines and a silvery sheen 

 s€en in certain lights. 



Wings. — Absolutely clear, extreme base slightly tawny, a 

 small row of black bristles at base of costa. Tegulse pale 3^ellow, 

 with a narrow fringe of yellow hair. H alter es light brown. 



Described from thirteen cf & and twelve 2 9 from Banga- 

 lore in fairly good condition except for the general absence of 

 thoracic and abdominal pubescence : the abdominal spines have 

 also been rubbed off most of the specimens. 



Types in the Indian Museum collection. Co-types in the 

 British Museuni and my collection. . -■ 



r- Dischistus resplendens, mihi, sp. nov. .>:;..- 1 



■ cf $. India and Assam. Long. 5-6 mm. ^^ 



Head. — Face below antennae rather prominent, black. An-- 

 tennse black, very elongated ; first very long, second very short, 

 both with long black hair, third longest of all, flat, with parallel 

 sides and a minute white style at tip. Proboscis strong, black, 

 as long as head and thorax together. In the a" the eyes are con- 

 tiguous from just below the vertex nearly to the antennae, facets 

 very small, those above and towards the front being rather 

 larger. The whole of the face is clothed with greyish, soft long 

 hair, surrounded by a ringe of stronger, long, bristly black hair 

 placed round the inner orbit of the eyes. Vertex wholly occupied 

 by the ocellar tubercle and a tuft of long black hairs ; the three 

 ocelli being placed in contact with the eyes. Under side of head 

 with soft black and grey hairs. Back of head with a thick fringe 

 of long soft yellowish grey hair, and a single row of black long 

 hairs on the extreme ocular orbit. 



In the 9 the frons is one- third the width of the head, blacky, 

 with sparse long black hairs and with a number of brilliant emerald- 

 green and rose-pink small scales, intermixed and lying close to, 

 the surface. These are also very numerous on the back of the head, - 

 where the dense grey hair is replaced by a moderately thick fringe,^ 

 of pale 3^ellow hairs. The face is shining black, bare, the mouth- 

 border pale yellow, bare. Under side of head with greyish white 

 soft hairs. 



Thorax and scutellum denuded, but ground colour black/ and; 

 dorsum surrounded in front, at the sides and behind with a dense' 



