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times as long as 1st and 2nd together, style about § the length of the joint, thicker 
at apex than at base ; facial bump rather prominent, viewed in profile about f the 
short diameter of the eye ; proboscis rufo-testaceous ; occiput rather wide, 
covered with greyish scales, the ground colour immediately behind the eyes 
darker than the posterior margin. 
Thorax blackish on disc, covered with greyish scales ; pronotum with a collar 
of light yellow hairs ; scutellum dark red ; bristles on postalar calli and scutellum 
yellowish. Abdomen both above and below light red, the segments more or less 
blackish at base, covered with grey scales (partially denuded) ; 1st segment with 
a tuft of light yellow hairs at each side. 
Legs rufo-testaceous, with some indications of grey scales on femora and tibiae ; 
all femora and tibiae with very short black spinules ; apical 2 or 3 joints of tarsi 
darkened. 
Wings with the anterior portion as far as the end of 1st longitudinal vein tawny 
yellow ; all cross veins and the apex of discal cel) with dark tawny suffusions, 
and there are similar but smaller suffusions near the apex of both branches of the 
2nd longitudinal vein ; 1st posterior and anal cells open. The third posterior cell 
is divided by a veinlet which runs towards the apex of discal cell (both my speci- 
mens are alike in this respect, but it may be adventitious); base of costa with 
greyish scales and short black bristly hairs ; halteres yellowish white. 
Length 8 mm. 
Described from two specimens obtained at Deesa in February. 
Nearest to auriplura. Walk., but differs as follows : smaller, antennae red, not 
black, 3rd joint much shorter than in auripium. In the latter species the whole 
of the wings are tawny yellow ; in the present species the apical and posterior 
margins are, except for the suffusions on the veins, almost hyaline. 
Exoprosopa dissoluta, n. sp. 
5 . Head ; frons at level of antennae about | the width of head, narrowing at 
vertex to 5 the width at antennae ; face slightly convex, viewed in profile the upper 
mouth edge, extends beyond the eye margin about half the short diameter of the 
eye ; vertex and frons reddish brown, becoming paler towards antennae, below 
which the whole face and mouth edge is pale testaceous ; frons with some short 
stiff black hairs, and covered with pale yellow scales, which extend to the mouth 
edge ; antennae with 1st joint red, with numerous short stiff black hairs, 2nd and 
3rd joints bro^vn or blackish, 3rd gradually tapering, longer than the 1st and 2nd 
together, style short ; proboscis black, palpi pale ; occiput rather broad, black 
with some pale yellow scales, the indentation of the eyes with white scales; 
occipital fringe short, whitish. 
Thorax black, with portions of metapleurae and sternopleurae red ; pronotum 
with a collar of pale yellowish scale like hairs ; disc covered with short yellowish 
scales, among which are mixed a few short stiff black hairs ; patches of greyish 
white scale-like hairs above and below bases of wings ; bristles near wing base and 
on postalar calli black ; scutellum dark red, covered with scales like the thorax, 
and with black marginal bristles. 
Abdomen black, apical margins of segments narrowly reddish ; 1st segment 
with a patch of greyish scale-like hairs at each side, 2nd and following segments 
with basal bands of white scales, on the first three or four segments these bands 
cover about half the segment, those on the apical segments being wider ; last two 
segments fringed with black hairs ; venter almost entirely covered with short 
greyish scales, which become yellower towards apex of abdomen. 
Legs ; front coxse red, covered with long grey hairs and a few stiffer black ones ; 
remainder of legs brownish or blackish, with small black spinules on inter- 
mediate and hind femora and tibiae. 
Wings ; base as far as humeral cross vein dark brown ; an irregular infuscated 
band stretches from fore margin through discal cell and apex of anal cell,becoming 
