134 OiDIPODIX.T^. 



Length 2\\-VS mm. ; expanse of wings, 48-*/ 8 mm. 



SOMALILA^'i) ; ARABIA; PALESTINE; N.W InDIA ; BoMBAT. 



Types in the Paris and British Museums. 



Appears to be distinct from Q. noiahilif, AYalk. (= fn-uUci,. 

 Sauss.) from the Canaries, Spain and Algeria. 



The only specimens of Q. hJanclianUana at present in the 

 Bi'itisli Mnsenm from India and East Africa belong to the red 

 form. Those from Aden are of both colours. 



Genus PTERNOSCIRTA. 



Fternoscirta. Saussiire, Mem. Soc. (ieiieve, xxviii (0), 1884. ])p. 52 



127; XXX (1), 1888, p. 18. 

 Pn'o/u'r/ia, Stfil (7M'c Leacli), Receiis. ()rtli. i, ISTo, pp. 1 10. 127. 



Type, (EiJ'n^oda. saUwata, Walk. 



Ean<je. The Oriental Region, 



Head short, somewhat rugose, the carina) bounding the frontal 

 ridge not very prominent, strongly approximating between the 

 antennce. Tegmina brown, varied ^vith paler markings on the 

 basal half, then with a large subhyaliue patch, and more or less 

 varied with brown and subhyaline beyond, the cells being arranged 

 in oblique quadrilaterals, angulated towards each other at the 

 longitudinal nervures ; wings often coloured at the base, with no 

 central black band ; hyaline beyond the middle, \Aith the tip 

 dusky. Legs and under surface pilose. 



Keif to the Species. 



1 (2) Winrrs red at base chictifevud-. Walk.. 



2 (J) Winn-s yellow at base. [p. l-"i4. 

 o (4) Length of body 27 min. ; tegmina with 



the whole of the apical half sjiotted [p. L'>5. 



with brown calif/iuusa, De Ilaan. 



4 (•!) Length 21 mm. ; tegmina with apical 



half with only a row of brown spots [p. 136. 



near front margin himaciilatus, Thmib., 



155. Fternoscirta cinctifemiir, Wall-. 



Acriilium ciHctifemur, Walker, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) iv, 



1859, p. 223. 

 (Edipocia saturata, "Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. B.M. iv, 1870, 



p. 740. 

 Pternoschid mtitrata, Saussure, 3Iem. Soc. Geneve, xxx (1). 1888, 



p. 3(3. 



Fternosciiia huntbcrtianu, Saussure, Mem. Soc. Geneve, xxviii (9). 

 1884, p. 127. 



Head and pronotnm granulose, brown, mottled with pale 

 markij]gs ; abdomen shining black ; pronotum and abdomen with 



