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it in loose white woolly filaments, among which they feed and 

 pupate. 



Genus S ync a r pi o l v m a, n.g. 



Head very broad, short, sharply turned down, arcuate behind, 

 very slightly cleft in front. Face lobes short, broad. Eyes very 

 large, flattened. Antennae short, slender, springing from cleft 

 below eyes. Thorax: prothorax very short, deeply curved, reach- 

 ing to inner margins of eyes; mesonotum very large, arcuate at 

 tips behind eyes, forming a slight knob in front; scutellum very 

 large. Legs slender, tibicB of hind pair slightly swollen at apex. 

 Wings thrice as long as broad, rounded at tips, stalk of subcosta 

 short; stigma wanting, subcosta forming a slender open cell; 

 radius long; cubital cells small. 



Type Syncarpiolyma maculata. 



Syncarpiolyma maculata, n.sp. 

 (Plates XV., tig. 2; xvi., fig. 7.) 



PupcE pale yellow, eyes bright red. Head broad, rounded in 

 front to hind margin of eyes, broad, truncate behind ; antennae 

 long, standing out in front of head; eyes large, rounded, pro- 

 jecting on sides. Thorax broad at base, swelling out on sides; 

 wing-covers projecting, rounded at tips. Abdomen constricted 

 at base, swelling out, broadl}^ rounded, coming to a point at apex, 

 which is clothed with a brush of long stout hairs. 



Imago. — Length 004, antennse 0-01125 inch. 



General colour light brown, with darker brown spots and 

 markings; eyes red, margined with yellow, ocelli pale orange; 

 spots upon thorax and scutellum black; wings light brown, semi- 

 opaque, coriaceous, lightly spotted with black, nervures clothed 

 with fine hairs. Head short, wide between eyes, lobed in front, 

 with a deep median suture, and a large fovea on either side; 

 hind margin deeply arcuate. Face lobes very small. Antennae 

 short, slender: 1st joint stout; 2nd short, cylindrical; 3rd very 

 long; 4th-6th shortest; 7th-8th slightly longer; 9th-10th short, 

 swollen. Eyes very large, projecting: central ocellus at aj)ex of 



