484 ^- Brunetti : Oriental BomhylidcB. [Voi,, II, 



calli are placed vertically beneath the upper one, all being contigu- 

 ous to one another, the lower ones touching the concolorous 

 fore coxse. All these spots are pale yellowish white. A scale- 

 like callus is placed in front of the wing, and is yellowish white 

 on the anterior half, and black on the remainder, which reaches 

 back to the posterior callus which is yellowish white. Below this 

 callus is a small round yellowish white scale, by the side of the 

 scutellum, and below the wing is an orange-yellow scale-like pro- 

 cess, connected by a thin membrane to the just- mentioned scale. 

 The sides of the thorax are black, with a little blackish brown 

 hair and a little whitish grey hair in front of the insertion of the 

 wings, and a larger quantity of longer similar hair on the large 

 sternopleura. 



Scutellum black, finel}' punctate, posterior half with some grey 

 hairs. 



Abdomen. — First joint at base wider than the scutellum, rap- 

 idly contracting posteriorly, forming a triangle ; black, finely punc- 

 tate on dorsum, with some very short grey hairs. At the sides 

 are both black and grey much longer hairs. Second to fifth seg- 

 ments (inclusive) very narrow, dorsum black, sides and belly 

 orange-yellow, fifth slightly widening at tip. Sixth, seventh and 

 eighth segments widened into an elongated club, but the segments 

 themselves are all shorter than the others, the eighth being shortest 

 of all, sixth segment orange, seventh and eighth reddish brown. 

 The whole abdomen at sides with very short, scattered, golden 

 yellow hairs ; on dorsum with microscopic black hairs, and the last 

 three segments with very short black hairs which are also present on 

 the posterior borders of these latter. The anal appendage (cf), with- 

 drawn within the ninth segment (which latter is peculiar to the 

 d^ only, in accordance with Osten Sacken's views in the Biol. 

 Cen. Am., i, 157), consists of an orange process bearing an upper 

 pair of jet-black conical " claspers," there being also an orange- 

 coloured plate projected from the eighth segment, bearing a very 

 small pair of black conical ' ' claspers ' ' at the tip. 



Legs. — Coxse : fore pair wholly pale yellowish white, bare ; 

 middle pair yellowish white, with a large black mark on the outer 

 side, on the basal half, and bearing a few dark hairs ; hind pair 

 black, with a little pale colour on inner sides below. Femora : 

 fore pair pale yellowish white, with a dark brown streak behind, 

 about the middle ; middle pair black, extreme base and tip pale 

 yellowish white ; hind pair, basal half pale yellow, deepening to 

 orange on the apical half, extreme base black above. Tibiae : 

 fore pair pale yellowish white, bare ; middle pair similar but with 

 a few very small black spines at the tip ; hind pair yellowish 

 orange, streaked here and there with black above, with irregu- 

 larly placed black spines, and with a circlet of some short black 

 spines at the tip. Tarsi : anterior ones pale j^ellow, upper side 

 blackish on apical half ; hind pair black, minutely pubescent, 

 slightly yellowish at extreme base, and with a row of minute black 

 spines below. 



