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INDOPHANES SINENSIS, new species 



Head with a black interantennal mark, vertex with dark patch 

 eacli side; antennae not reaching end of thorax, brown, tips of joints 

 narrowly pale, and a broad pale area over several joints at the begin- 

 ning of the clavate tip. Pronotum with four black stripes, middle 

 pair well separated and complete, laterals ending at the furrow ; rest 

 of thorax above mostly black, some pale on anterior lobe, a short, pale 

 stripe each side on mesonotum, and the hind margins of scutelli pale ; 

 pleura mostly dark. Abdomen dark ; tip of first segment pale, second 

 and third segments with a median pale spot before the middle, and 

 the tips narrowly pale; other segments narrowly pale at tip; hair 

 short and black, except in pale areas. 



Legs slender, pale, femora and tibiae rather minutely dotted, and 

 with black bands at tips, tibiae also with a dark mark near base, and 

 hind tibiae with two dark lines, one on anterior side, other on outer 

 side; tarsal joints dark at tips. 



Wings hyaline; veins mostly dark, and the longitudinal veins in- 

 terrupted with pale ; stigma pale, rhegma with an oblique dark streak, 

 and before it are some wholly white cross veins; an oblique dark line 

 up from end of cubital fork ; in hind wings stigma pale, and a dark 

 spot at rhegma; in both wings a few outer cross veins are margined 

 with dark, and beyond rhegma the outer marginal veins dark, but no 

 distinct cloud. 



Pronotum a trifle longer than broad, not so slender as in harhara but 

 fully as long as in audax. Forewings slightly more acute than har- 

 hara; hindwings no longer than forewings, and acute at tip ; in fore- 

 wings about eight cross veins before radial sector, none crossed, nine or 

 ten branches of radial sector; before the cubital fork no cross veins 

 connected ; one cross vein from second anal back to first at the union of 

 second and third, third anal forked, or so united the fork may appear 

 from second anal. 



Forewing length, 32 mm. ; width, 9 mm. 



From Szechwan (no definite locality), China (Graham). Ilolotype, 

 U.S.N.M. No. 53153. Paratypes in U.S.N.M. and M.C.Z. 



Family RHYACOPHILIDAE 

 Genus RHYACOPHILA Pictet 



RHYACOPHILA SINENSIS Martynov 



From Wei Chow, August 10, 7,000-12,500 feet, and 0-Er, 6 miles 

 north of Li Fan, August 16, 10,800 feet, both Szechwan. This species 

 is very close to R. hohsoni from Tibet. In sinensis the second joint of 

 the lower appendages is shorter and the lower branch no longer. 



