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Abdomen jet black with snowy-white basal bands, and on 
some of the segments two small white median spots; venter 
black with basal white bands and all the bristles golden. 
Legs black, femora and tibiae speckled with pale creamy 
scales ; fore legs unhanded, but the apex of the tibiae white ; mid 
legs with two pale bands involving the joints of the metatarsal 
and first tarsal and first and second tarsals ; hind legs with a 
narrow band involving the metatarsal and first tarsal joint, a 
very broad one involving the first and second tarsal joint, a 
narrow one the second and third, apex of third white and all the 
fourth white. 
Wings with black scales over most of the veins, but with 
white spots as follows : four large ones on the costa and three small 
basal ones, the first two spread on to the first and second veins, 
the third on to the first, second, third and fourth, the fourth on to 
the first and second, the basal ones small and irregular ; there is 
also a spot on the first between the third and fourth costal spots, 
one on the base of the second fork-cell and at the tips of the 
branches, one at the apex, and another near the base of the outer 
branch of the fifth and one at its base, and a small one just past 
the cross-vein on the fourth. Halteres all pale. Fork-cells 
rather short, the first narrower and about the same length as 
the second, its stem about half as long again as the cell; stem of 
the second as long as the cell; cross-veins pale, the posterior 
.about twice its own length distant from the mid. 
Length .—5 mm. 
Habitat. —Maddathoray, W. base of W. Ghats, Travancore. 
Time of capture. —17. xi. 08 (Annandale). 
Observations .—Described from a single $ taken resting on 
tree trunk in jungle. A very marked and beautiful species near 
0. albipes, Theobald, but easily told by having only the last hind 
tarsal white. 
Type in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 
Genus NEWSTEADINA. Theobald (1909). 
Ann. Trop. Med. and Parasit. II., No. 4, 297 (1909), Theobald. 
Hear Orthopodomyia, Theobald, but differs in the longer male 
palpi, and the presence of very long scales on the male antennae, 
and also in the wings having Mcinsonia-like scales. 
