NOVITATES ZOOLOOICAE XXVI. 1919. 263 



cellulars in S. aegrota Klug, from just below upper angle of cell in S. infuscata 

 Klug ; 7 from angle ; 8, 9 stalked, 10 absent ; 11 from cell. Hindwing with 

 vein 1 a absent, 1 b and c present ; veins 2, 3, 4, 5 at intervals ; 6, 7 shortly 

 stalked ; 8 coincident with the cell and vein 7 throughout ; the costal and 

 inner areas very narrow ; the frenulum short and non-functional. 



Female wingless. 



Larva smooth and much resembUng those of the Epichnopterygidae (Hetero- 

 gynidae), to which the family is closely allied, forming a cocoon below the soil. 



In key differs from the Megalopygidae in the hindwing having veins 6, 7 

 shortly stalked and 8 coincident with the cell and vein 7 throughout, instead 

 of vein 6 being widely separated from 7, and 8 anastomosing with the cell to 

 middle or near extremity, then separate ; and in having the female wingless. 



In the Megalopygidae the frons has no process, the forelegs are normal, the 

 forewing has vein 6 from above the middle of discoceUulars, 7 and 8 bent down- 

 wards and stalked from 9 and 10, the frenulum may be fully developed, non- 

 functional, or absent. The larvae are thickly clothed with long spatulate hairs 

 and form a cocoon attached to the food-plant. 



Genus Somabrachys. 



Type 

 Brachysoma Aust., Le Nat. ii. p. 284 (1880) nee Dej. Col. 1821 . codeti (?) = aegrota Klug 

 Somabrachys Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 930 (1892) codeti 



For sjmonomy of species v. Oberth. Et. Lep. Comp. v. pp. 227-301 (1911) and 

 xii. pp. 376-428 (1916), and Jordan, Nov. Zool. xxiii. pp. 350-58 (1916). 



The range of the genus is from Morocco, Algeria, and Tunis, to Egypt and 

 Palestine. 



Family Teragridae. 



Teraijra Wlk., ISiSS, is older than Arhela Moore. 



Genus Stenagra nov. 



Typo : S. multipunctala. 



Antennae of female serrate ; head, thorax, and abdomen clothed with 

 rough hair. Forewing very narrow, the apex rounded, the termen obliquely 

 curved, the inner margin lobed near base ; vein 3 from before angle of cell, 5 

 from above angle ; the discoceUulars very oblique and the upper angle of cell 

 produced ; vein 6 from the angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked, 7 from far beyond 9 ; 10,11 

 from cell. Hindwing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 from well above 

 angle ; 6, 7 strongly stalked to near apex ; 8 connected with the cell by an 

 oblique bar towards its extremity. 



Stenagra multipunctata n. sp. 

 $. Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown tinged with grey ; legs more 

 rufous. Forewing red- brown strongly suffused with purple-grey ; a small 

 antemedial black spot below the cell, a rather triangular spot in the cell above 

 origin of vein 2, a spot on upper part of discoceUulars, an obhquely curved post- 

 medial series of seven black spots from costa to below vein 2 near its base, the 



