174 ERNEST E, AUSTEN—TWO NEW SPECIES OF 
below), frontal callus clove-brown, shining, extending from eye to eye and nearly 
quadrate in shape, though slightly higher in middle line than at sides, in rubbed 
Specimens connected in middle line above with a small black spot in centre of 
front, above which and not connected with it is a second and much smaller, 
quadrate, median, blackish spot near vertex ; palpi in both sexes cream-coloured, 
terminal joint in ¢ pyriform, clothed with whitish hairs and also on lower 
portion of distal two-thirds of outer surface with black hairs; terminal joint of 
palpi in © swollen above and ending in a sharp point below, clothed on outer 
surface with minute black hairs, mixed with minute whitish or yellowish white 
hairs ; first and second joints of antenne in both sexes isabella-coloured, clothed 
with minute black hairs, third joint in G narrow and elongate, its proximal 
portion cinnamon, its terminal annuli brown ; expanded portion of third joint in 
Q moderately broad and more or less russet-brown, terminal annuli dark brown 
or clove-brown. Thorax: dorsum in ¢ thinly clothed with erect brownish or 
blackish hair, mixed with yellowish hairs on central third in front of transverse 
suture ; dorsum in © thinly clothed with appressed yellowish hairs, especially on 
central third and in front of suture ; the grey stripes on dorsum consist in both 
sexes of a narrow median line extending from front margin to transverse suture, 
a broader and complete stripe on each side of this, midway between middle line 
and lateral margin, and a still broader stripe on each lateral margin, which 
includes the humeral and extends to the postalar callus ; postalar calli and region 
immediately above base of each wing clothed with whitish hairs ; from humeral 
callus to base of wing on each side runs a narrow, dark brown, horizontal stripe, 
which is clothed with dark brown or black hair ; pleure and pectus light grey, 
and clothed in both sexes with white hair; scutellum agreeing in ground colour 
of its upper surface with that of remainder of dorsum, grey on lateral and hind 
border, in ¢ thinly clothed above with erect brownish hairs, mixed with 
appressed yellowish hairs near front margin, and with whitish hair on lateral and 
hind border, in Q clothed above with appressed yellowish hairs mixed with some 
more erect blackish hairs. Abdomen: median grey stripe on dorsum extending 
from base to hind margin of sixth segment, and clothed with, minute, appressed, 
yellowish hairs ; grey stripe between median stripe and lateral margin on each 
side broken up into spots after second segment, and terminating, like median 
stripe, on sixth segment, although in ¢ (at least in case of type) the spots on 
fifth and sixth segments are invisible unless abdomen be viewed at a low angle 
from behind ; the spots on the third and following segments forming the paired 
stripes situated more or less close to or even in contact with the front margins of 
the segments, but widely separated from the hind margins; lateral borders of 
first six segments grey, posterior angles and extreme hind margins of second 
to sixth segments inclusive narrowly cream-buff ; paired grey dorsal stripes, grey 
lateral margins, and grey portion of venter clothed with minute, appressed, 
whitish hairs; ventral surface of last three segments, except hind margins of 
fifth and sixth, greyish clove-brown, hind margins of ventral scutes of second to 
sixth segments inclusive cream-buff. Wings hyaline, stigma elongate, faint, and 
inconspicuous. Squame@ isabella-coloured, Halteres : knob buff or cream-buff, 
sometimes brownish at base, stalk brownish. Zegs: coxe grey, clothed like 
femora with whitish hair ; lower surface and distal fourth of front tibie black, 
