404 GERTRUDE RICARDO. — TWO NEW SPECIES OF HAEMATOPOTA. 



Haematopota malayensis, sp. uov. 



Tyjpe (female) and another from Kuala Lumpur (Br. A. T. Stanton). 



A species belonging to Group III ; the legs not uniform in colour, but with rings 

 on the middle tibiae only, all tibiae white at base (see Ricardo, Records Indian Museum, 

 iv, p. 331, 1911). 



Wing with the apical band single, reaching barely more than half-way across the 

 apex. Antennae with the first joint short, not half as long as the third. The species 

 may be distinguished by the very protuberant large frontal callus, and the forehead 

 is considerably narrowed at the vertex. A small dark brown species. Length, 7 mm. 



Face pale ashy grey, with rather long white hairs. Paljpi yellow, the second joint 

 of almost the same size throughout, ending in a short obtuse point, with short black 

 pubescence. Antennae reddish yellow ; the first joint more yellow, with black 

 pubescence, cylindrical, hardly more than a third of the length of the third joint ; 

 the second joint very small, of the same colour ; the third joint duU reddish, the last 

 four small divisions narrower than the first division. Forehead almost half the width 

 of the head anteriorly, and perceptibly narrower at the vertex ; a small black spot 

 between the antennae ; the frontal callus protuberant, shining brown, taking up the 

 entire width of the forehead, nearly as deep as it is wide ; the paired spots large, 

 touching its posterior border ; the unpaired spot represented by a small dark stripe ; 

 the rest of the forehead is covered with grey and yellowish tomentum. Thorax dark 

 broAvn with traces of appressed fulvous pubescence. Scutellum covered with greyish 

 tomentum shoulders with black hairs. Abdomen brown, rather a brighter shade than 

 that of the thorax, a very distinct triangular grey median spot on the second segment, 

 extending from border to border, all the segmentations very slightly greyish ; there 

 are signs of white-haired spots on the third and fourth segments, elsewhere the 

 pubescence is black. Legs reddish yellow ; the fore femora appear darker, having 

 thicker black pubescence ; the fore tibiae whitish, with white hairs, the apical third 

 being black ; tarsi blackish ; the middle tibiae appear blackish, with a pale ring at 

 the base and beyond the middle, but the dark colour appears to be composed of spaces 

 covered with thicker black pubescence, the whole tibiae being really much the same 

 colour as the femora ; the tarsi yellowish at base, then dusky ; the posterior tibiae 

 very similar to the middle ones, but the second ring is hardly distinct (if really present, 

 the species would belong more properly to Group VI), the base of the tibiae being 

 whitish, the rest reddish yellow covered with black pubescence ; tarsi as those of 

 the middle pair. Wings with the apical band small, short and irregular in width, 

 reaching only a short way beyond the anterior branch of the third vein ; every cell 

 has a white triangular spot on its outer border ; appendix present, stigma and veins 

 brown. 



