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of golden tomentum on dorsum ; thorax entirely bare, with some 

 black hairs on the metapleura. Scutellum like the thorax ; meso- 

 phragma black, gray-dusted, with black hairs on the sides; 

 halteres black, the stalk yellowish at the base. Abdomen black 

 and black-haired; strongly shining, even on venter; the tergites 

 have at base a broad velvety black band, which on the terminal 

 segments is reduced to a middle spot J genitalia black and black- 

 haired. Coxse black, with black hairs; femora black, with nar- 

 rowly yellow tips, and the four posterior ones with yellow 

 bases, broadest on the hind pair; tibiae and tarsi long and dark 

 yellowish; terminal spurs yellow. 



Wings grayish hyaline, with a faint yellowish tinge ; stigmatic 

 spot broad, elongate, dark brown, filling up the entire end of the 

 marginal cell; in addition, and in contact with the stigma, the 

 end of the subcostal cell is dark brown, beginning at the end of 

 the auxiliary vein. The rest of the wing immaculate. Cubital 

 fork only a little longer than its stalk, destitute of appendix at 

 base; second posterior cell acute at base and longer than the 

 third ; the last shorter than the discoidal cell. Squamse pellucid 

 brown, with pale fringe. 



Luzon, Laguna, Los Baiios (Baker) , 



131. Mydas fruhstorferi van der Wulp. 1896. 



Mount Maquiling. Two female specimens, which answer 

 perfectly to the description of the species from Java. Species 

 of the present genus seem to be very scarce in the Oriental 

 Region, only two others being known: namely, one from India 

 (ruficornis Wiedemann) and one from Celebes and Sumatra 

 (basifascia Walker) ; but I have in my collection a species from 

 Ceylon that differs from all the others in being entirely black 

 with the last three abdominal segments wholly rufous. 



132. Leptogaster princeps 0. S. 1882. 



Specimens from Mount Banahao. A very distinct, endemic 

 species, which may be considered as gigantic in its genus. 



133. Saropogon rubricosus sp. nov. 



Very near S. jucnndics van der Wulp, 1872 {vertehratus Bigot, 

 1878), from Java and Sumatra, but distinguished by the wholly 

 rufous abdomen and hind legs. The apical spur of the front 

 tibise is very small and easily overlooked; thus van der Wulp 

 has described this species as belonging to Habropogon, and Bigot 

 placed it in Scylaticus, a fact recently noted by de Meijere, who 

 has described another allied species from Java. 



