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tion ; a few fine hairs above them ; cheeks without any pilosity, their 

 inferior portion scarcely a fourth of the longitudinal diameter of the 

 eyes; under-side of the head with a row of bristles; beard white; 

 occiput grey ; posterior orbits white. Eyes bare. Autennse inserted above 

 the median line of the eyes; basal joints short; third joint threeto four 

 times as long as the second ; arista thickened to beyond the half of its 

 length. Proboscis blackish ; palpi dark rufous, cylindrical, slightly 

 thicker towards the end. Thorax blackish, cinereous ; shoulders and 

 pleuree with grey portions ; thoracic dorsum with indistinct black stripes ; 

 scutellum semi-circular, rufous, covered with grey dust and hence appear- 

 ing ochraeeous ; its surface with short black hairs and its margin with 

 several long macrochsetse. Abdomen ovate, cinereous ; first segment 

 black, the following segments with broad black hind-bordeis, second 

 segment with two marginal macrochsetse, the third with a row of 

 marginal macrochsetse ; anal segment densely furnished with bristly 

 hairs. Legs black; middle tibise with some long bristles and long 

 spurs ; hind tibise furnished externally with fringe-like bristles ; foot- 

 claws and pulvilli short. Tegulse yellowish-white. Wings greyish- 

 hyaline ; apical cell opened at some distance before the tip of the wing ; 

 small cross-vein a little in front of the middle of the discal cell, curva- 

 tion of the fourth vein rectangular without appendice ; apical cross- 

 vein very slightly concave; posterior cross-vein a little curved near 

 its insertion in the fifth vein. 



A single female specimen, bred from the caterpillar of Basychira 

 tliwaitesii, Moore, which is injurious to the tea-plant. 



7. Masrcera stihnigra, n. sp. ( ?). 



PI. I, fig. 5. 



Blackish-cinereous ; face white with the oral margin rufous ; thorax 

 with black stripes ; abdomen, antennse and legs black ; palpi rufous. 



Length 9 millim. 



Head as broad as the thorax ; front and face broader than the eyes, 

 with parallel sides ; the front somewhat prominent, yellowish-cinereous 

 with dark reflections ; frontal band blackish, narrower than the lateral 

 portions ; frontal bristles strong, but not numerous, on each side in a 

 curved row, descending to the end of the second antennal joint; outward 

 of them a pair of orbital bristles directed forward ; on the vertex two 

 pairs of bristles directed backward. Eyes bare. Face and cheeks 

 white, with some blackish reflections ; oral margin somewhat rufous, 

 not prominent ; the face slightly inclined ; facial ridges divergent down- 

 wards, but curved inwards before they reach the oral margin ; vibrissse 

 inserted near that margic surmounted by a few short bristly hairs; 



