188 CATALOGUE OF 



Male. Ferruginous, hroad, elliptical, shining. Head black, smooth ; 

 a spot on each side of the front, sockets of the antennae and fore liorder 

 whitish. Eyes approximate to each other. Palpi tawny. Anleunit tawny, 

 nioniliform, rather stout. Prolhorax transversely elliptical, not longer 

 than half its breadth, thickly and minutely punctured, very pilose; fore 

 border rounded, vaulted in the middle, extending very little beyond the 

 head; hind border slightly rounded. Mesothorax and metathorax piceous. 

 Abdomen tawny, piceous towards the tip and beneath; sides very pilose; 

 supra-anal lamina notched; styles distinct. Cerci piceous, lanceolate. 

 Legs stout, very pilose, moderately stout; arolia small. Wings extending 

 much beyond the abdomen. Fore wings brown, semicoriaceous, coriaceous 

 and dark reddish brown at the base; costa pubescent; transverse scctois 

 irregular towards the tip ; intermediate longitudinal veins not apparent. 

 Hind wings cinereous, brownish along the costa ; veins tawny ; inter- 

 mediate longitudinal veins indistinct; transverse sectors whitish. Length 

 of the body 8|^ lines; of the wings 30 lines. 



Java. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Genus BRACHYCOLA, page 54. 



Brachycola interna. 



Mas. Nigra, el/iplica, lata ; caput luteum, plaga frontali stri(;as duas 

 emitlente fasciaque antica nigris ; palpi nigri, anticulo 2o basi 

 luleo ; prolhorax Ititeus, disco nigra macuhis duas luleas includente ; 

 pectus luteum ,• abdomen luteo marginatum ; femora testacea ; alee 

 antica lutece, subquadratcB, abdominis dimidio non longiores, fascia 

 basuli slrigaqtie arcuata nigris connexis. 



Male. Black, elliptical, broad, shining, very stout aud convex. 

 Head luleous, very finely punctured, not extending beyond the prothorax; 

 a black patch on the front, emitting a streak on each side to the black 

 socket of the antenna, and connected in the middle with an anterior black 

 band. Eyes very wide apart. Palpi black; second joint luteous at the 

 base. Prothorax luieous, longer than half its breadth, rounded and much 

 reflexed on each side and on the fore border; disk black, depressed in the 

 middle, longitudinally ridged, aud with a luleous sput on each side; hind 

 border straight. Pectus luteous. Abdomen bordered wiili luteous on each 

 side; supra-anal lamina entire ; styKs distinct. Cerci short, broad. Legs 

 thick ; coxae and femora testaceous ; tibiie with very stout spines ; arolia 

 large. Fore wings luteous, corneous, subquadrale, almost half the length 

 of the abdomen, with a broad black basal band, which is abbreviated near 

 the costa, and then form a right angle and extends to the hind part of the 

 disk. Length of the body 12 lines, 



Nauia, Amazon Region. From Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Brachycola subcincta. 



Mas. Nigra, elliptica, caput subtiliter punctatum, vertice strigis duabus 

 laterulibus angnlatis margineque anlico luteis ; prolhorax pallide 

 luUus, aspere punclalus, disco nigra lineolas luleas maculasque duas 



