PEAMILA.— SCIAPTEROX.— TRILOCHANA. 



I'RA.Mll.A, uov. Kcn. 



Allied to Sphecia ; wings shorter : fore wing narrow at base, broad at apex ; no recur- 

 rent vein : hind wing broad ; no subcostal branch ; discocellulars sliglitly oblique, lower 

 the shortest ; one radial ; upper median veinlets straight. Thorax broad ; abdomen tapering 

 to tip ; head small ; [)alpi slender, ascending, hairy ; antennae slender at base, biserrate ; 

 legs long, femora and tarsi squamous ; tibia; slightly hairy, spurred. 



Pramila atkinsoni, n. sp. (IMatc II. tig. 1.) 



Female. "Wings transparent ; costa, cilia, and a narrow discocellular streak on hind 

 wing blackish -brown : fore wing witli a broad orange-red black-bordered discocellidar spot. 

 Hody and antennae bluish-black ; legs brown ; palpi beneath and tarsal joints fringed with 

 white. 



Expanse 1;^ inch. 



Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Genus SCIAPTERON, Slaudinger. 



Sci-VrTEKOX SIKKIMA, 11. sp. 



Male. Fore wing dark purple-black, with steel-blue reflections : hind wing transparent ; 

 a narrow costal and outer border and discocellular streak blackish-purple ; cilia cupreous 

 brown. Thorax blackish-purple, with a bright chrome-yellow streak on each side ; head, 

 antennfc, abdomen, and legs black above and slightly streaked with yellow beneath ; fore 

 tarsi white ; tarsi of middle and hind legs spotted with white. 



Expanse 1-^q inch. 



Hah. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



TRILOCHANA, nov. geii. 



Fore wing long, narrow ; costa sliglitly convex at base and apex, exterior margin short, 

 oblique ; subcostal vein four-branched, the fourth also forked at half its length ; three 

 radials ; median vein two-branched, branches starting from angle of lower discocellular : 

 hind wing broad, exterior margin very convex below apex ; subcostal vein extending direct 

 to apex; discocellulars very oblique ; one radial; median vein three-branched, two arisiu'^ 

 together at lower end of cell, the third at a distance from its end ; one submedian and two 

 interior veins. Body long ; head broad ; eyes projecting laterally ; thorax long, projecting 

 much beyond base of wings ; abdomen attenuated towards base, tuft fan-like ; fore legs 

 hairy ; mid legs squamous, slightly hairy at sides ; hind femora squamous, tibia; clothed with 

 dense and long hairs ; antenna; long, minutely serrate. 



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