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appendage, enormously enlarged base of penis stem (when viewed from behind) and solid, abrupt apically ventral pygofer appendage. Alebroides elsae sp. n. (Figs 13-23) Type material. - Holotype male: Sikkim, Rumtek, 1700 m, lamp domes, 1990, I. Dworakowska (in SMTD). - Paratype F, same data as the holotype (in SMTD). Vertex comparatively long and narrow. Background light beige. Centre of vertex, its anterior margin and broadly anterior margin of pronotum, orange-ochre. Centre of pronotum brownish-grey, hind margin broadly milky grey. Scutum ochre-yellow. Scutellum white at its anterior margin, black posteriorly (Fig. 15). Face orange-ochre or yellowochre centrally, whitish laterad. A narrow brown medial streak on frontoclypeus and in upper 1/4 to 1/3 of anteclypeus. Dorsal side of abdomen brown. Valvae of female blackish on long distance apically. Fore wing light beige, apical cells slightly infuscated. Length M 3.5 mm. Anal tube appendage long, sickle-like (Figs 18, 19). Ventral pygofer appendage broadened apically and serrated at margins (Figs 21, 22). Penis stem short, bearing lateral basal appendages (Figs 13,14). Apical part of subgenital plate infuscated (Fig. 23). Basal abdominal apodemes of male long (Fig. 20). Comparison. Male genital apparatus unique. Similarity to A. clavatus Sohi et Dwor. as concerns with ventral pygofer appendage is superficial because the whole serration in the former is shaped in the same direction while in A. elsae it is directed apicad on both sides. Remarks. The most distinct external character of this species is colouration of scutellum. The name of the new species is formed to honour my Columbian friend Elsa Patricia Medina Ingold. Alebroides fumosus Sohi et Dwor., 1979 Alebroides dolkhensis Thapa, 1989 syn. n. 1 M, Sikkim, Rumtek, 1700 m, lamp domes, 1990; 1 F, Rumtek, 1800 m, Artemisia, 6. Ill; 3 M, 2 F, Phodong, 1750 m, Artemisia, 1. Ill; 3 M, 5 F, Labrang, forest, 1800-2000 m, 8. III. 1991,1. Dworakowska. Remarks. The original description (Thapa, 1989) compares the new species to A. soror Dwor. The characters illustrated for A. dolkhensis (op. cit. pp. 96, 97 Fig. 2 [1-8]) meet those for the senior synonym (Sohi and Dworakowska, 1979 p. 369). Thapa mentions "an oblique row of black spots on each side of thorax" (op. cit. p. 97) as characteristic of A. dolkhensis. The "spots" are, in actual fact, irregularly shaped blackish minute patches situated on dorso-lateral part of pronotum, not on side of thorax that would mean "pleuron". Infuscation vary individually in intensity and in some specimens only anterior part of vertex might be infuscated. Thapa states that anterior part of coronal suture infus-