GOBGOPAS.— PELLICIA. 367 



The green head, well developed costal fold, and the absence of a tuft of hairs 

 on the secondaries, near the base of the costa, at once distinguish these insects 

 from Pellicia, to some species of which genus they otherwise have a considerable 

 resemblance. 



The male genitalia have a simple slender tegumen ending in a straight rod ; the 

 scaphium is not apparent ; the harpes are wide, ending in two lobes, with a narrow cleft 

 between them, at the base of which is a smaller rounded dependent lobe. (See Tab 

 LXXXIII. fig. 5.) 



V. Secondaries of the male with a tuft of hair near the base of the costal margin ; 

 subcostal nervure of the secondaries and its branch more or less swollen near 

 their junction. 



PELLICIA. 



Pellicia, Herr.-Schaffer,Corr.-Blatt Regensb. 1870, p. 159; Plote, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. xxvi. p. 253 

 (1882) ; Wats. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 56. 



We restrict this genus to the species in which the males have a very distinct tuft of 

 long hairs arising between the costal nervure and the costal margin of the secondaries; 

 the subcostal branch of the same wings is usually swollen near to where it parts from 

 the subcostal, and the subcostal itself is swollen near the same angle. The only other 

 genera that have these characters are Mycteris and Hemvpteris, the former differing in 

 having more prominent porrect palpi, the latter in its peculiarly small secondaries. 



The obscure markings of most of the species of Pellicia makes them very difficult 

 of recognition, and their determination from descriptions an almost hopeless task. 

 We have availed ourselves, as far as possible, of facilities of comparing our series 

 with named specimens in Dr. Staudinger's collection and in the British Museum 

 We have also a few from Herr Semper which have been named from Plotz's drawings. 

 All these names we have used, but there remain several undetermined species in our 

 collection some of which we have been obliged to name, though there are several 

 briefly and insufficiently described species in various works which we are unable to 

 recognize. 



In Pellicia there is no costal fold to the primaries nor any sexual patch on the 

 secondaries as in Arteurotia. The primaries are rather pointed, the outer margin 

 convex ; the discocellulars are nearly transverse, the lower being slightly shorter than 

 the middle ; the third median segment is short, the second long and slightly axnhed ; 

 the discocellulars of the secondaries are very feeble, and the radial only just traceable '; 

 the third median segment very short, the second subcostal segment shorter than the 

 second submedian segment. The hind tibiae have two pairs of spurs and a dorsal crest 

 but do tufts from the proximal end. $ 



The male genitalia, which are described in detail below, and differ much in each 



