BY WALTER W. FROGGATT. 289 



TyORA STERCULI.E, n.sp. 



(Plates XV., fig. 5; xvi., fig. 10.) 



Larva semitransparent; eyes, centre of thorax and abdomen 

 red. General form elongate, uniform in width from sides of head 

 to rounded tip of abdomen. Head slightly lobed in front, with a 

 distinct median stripe; antennae standing out straight on either 

 side of head, thick at base, tapering to tips. Abdominal segments 

 very distinct; apex clothed with a tuft of white filaments. 



Pupa dull olive-green, thighs and inner margins of wing-covers 

 light green; legs light brown, apex of tibitieand tarsi black; wing- 

 covers, head, spots on thorax and tip of abdomen brown; a dorsal 

 stripe of red running from centre of head to tip of abdomen. 

 Head broad, truncate between antennae, rounded to eyes, swelling- 

 out and truncate behind; antennae very long, slender, apex of 

 each joint black; eyes large, projecting, rounded on outer and 

 angled on inner margins. Thorax broader than head ; wing- 

 covers short, elongate-oval; legs stout, long. Abdomen swelling 

 out at base, broadest across centre, slightly arcuate on sides near 

 apex; tip of abdomen ornamented with a number of thick woolly 

 filaments from two to five in number trailing out on sides and 

 base to \ inch in length. 



Imago. —Length 0-07, antennae 0*0425 inch. 



General colour bright green, ocelli yellow, eyes red, antennae 

 and tarsi brown; head, thorax and abdominal segments marked 

 with blacky wings hyaline, nervures dark brown. Head small, 

 deeply cleft in front, rounded behind. Face lobes wanting. 

 Antenn* projecting from rounded tubercle on either side of a 

 median cleft, very long, slender; 1st joint broad at base; 2nd 

 more slender at base, rounded at apex; 3rd longest; 4th-8th 

 shorter; 9th shortest; 10th slightly thickened, short, rounded at 

 tip. Eyes large, rounded on outer and angled on inner margin : 

 central ocellus small, at base of median cleft ; lateral ocelli 

 elongate, on centre of inner margin of^eyes. Thorax: pronotum 

 lobed in front, rounded, projecting over base of head, sloping 



