The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology . Mr. C. G. Lamb on Exotic Chloropidae. Thorax shining black, very finely roughened, with regularrows of the above-mentioned hairs. ScuMlum rounded, dull,more roughened than thoracic dorsum, with four short paleterminal bristles. Pleura shining black, the notopleuralbristles pale. Wings (fig. 17) pale, with whitish veins. Halteres shiningblack. Legs : all coxce black, trochanters orange, femora blackexcept knees, tibice orange with broad black rings, smalleston the front pair ; tarsi orange. Abdomen all shining black. Siz
The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology . Mr. C. G. Lamb on Exotic Chloropidae. Thorax shining black, very finely roughened, with regularrows of the above-mentioned hairs. ScuMlum rounded, dull,more roughened than thoracic dorsum, with four short paleterminal bristles. Pleura shining black, the notopleuralbristles pale. Wings (fig. 17) pale, with whitish veins. Halteres shiningblack. Legs : all coxce black, trochanters orange, femora blackexcept knees, tibice orange with broad black rings, smalleston the front pair ; tarsi orange. Abdomen all shining black. Size If mm. Ceylon : Peradeniya (A. Rutherford). Epimadiza, Beck. There are two new species of this interesting little form,one represented by several specimens, one by a single veryperfect specimen. Epimadiza nigra, sp. n. Head (top view) :—All very shining, slightly bluish black,the triangle only demarcated by its border-lines of very fainthairs; the triangle extends about half across the vertexbasally and its point is about midway to the frons ; the bristles Fig. Epimadiza nigra, X 30. are outer verticals, widely separate , tiny ocellar, a fewjust visible The face is orange ; antennae darkishorange, just separated at the base by a tiny ridge, inserted inpits, arista hair-like and orange; palpi orange. Side-view: Mr. C. G. Lamb on Exotic Chloropida?. 347 jowls dark orange-black, divided into two parts by a linefrom the lowest point of eye to the insertion of the smallvibrissa, the upper part of this area being duller than thelower, which is quite shining; the depth is about twice thatof the 3rd joint. Thoracic dorsum and scutellum rather shining, all denselybut finely shagreened and practically bare, small notopleurals,and parallel scutellars ; pleura all shining black, callusprominent. Wings (fig. 18) glassy and pale-veined. Halteres black. The legs vary somewhat in colour, being very chitiuous,especially the femora ; the black in what follows is some-times near
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