266 [May, 



In appearance somewhat like T. ahdomijialis, Flor, but the great 

 difference lies in the foi*m of the exterior branch of the dorsal fork of 

 the cubitus, also in the shape of the genital organs of the ^ . 



I have been enabled, through the kindness of M. Jakowleff, to 

 describe this and the following species, but in neither case does he 

 furnish me with the name of the food-plant or the date of capture. 



Genus APHALAEA, Forst. 



ApHALAUA jAKOWLErn. 



Chocolate or reddish-brown. Croivii, 'pro- and mesonotum thickly 

 punctured, having somewhat the appearance of being very finely 

 scabrous. Elytra opaque, with a broad, almost black, velvety band 

 round the apex, in which is a narrow, white transverse line ; costal 

 margin at the base slightly, and at the centre very perceptibly, concave ; 

 radial cell elongate, apex acute. TVings white, opaque ; costal nerve 

 for half its length from the base brownish-yellow, ulna red. Legs 

 red-brown ; thighs and tihi(S on the sides with narrow, transverse, 

 slightly waved, frosted, silvery-white bands ; tarsi and claivs of the 

 3rd pair red. Abdomen above almost black, with a yellow line down 

 the centre, widening to the apex ; beneath, deep yellow ; genitalia of 

 the $ deep yellow. 



Sead : crown thickly punctured, having somewhat the appearance of being very 

 finely scabrous. Antenna yellowish or somewhat ruddy-brown, 1-2 joints 

 ruddy-brown ; 9-10 black, base of the former broadly yellowish or ruddy -brown. 



Thorax : pro- and mesonotum thickly punctured, having someAvhat the appearance 

 of being very finely scabrous. Elytra opaque with a broad, almost black, 

 velvety band round the apex, in which is a narrow white line extending from 

 near the upper nerve of the furcation of the superior arm of the cubitus to, or 

 slightly beyond, the upper nerve of the inferior arm of the same ; costal margin 

 at the base slightly concave, at the centi-e very perceptibly concave ; radial cell 

 elongate, apex acute, length about two-thirds the distance from the base to the 

 apex ; dorsal marginal appendage and nerve deep, velvety, brown-black, with 

 two white oblong spots between the claval suture and the first nerve of the 

 fork of the cubitus, round the apex a broad, almost black, velvety band, in which 

 is a narrow white line (sometimes having a few very minute black dots on its 

 surface) traversing the space between the upper nerve of the furcation of the 

 superior arm of the cubitus to a little beyond the upper nerve of the inferior 

 arm of the same ; marginal apices of the nerves white ; next the costal margin 

 and extending to the apex of the radial cell a triangular, almost black, velvety 

 patch, divided by a trapezoidal white spot, interior to this last is a triangular, 

 more or less distinct, pale brown patch extending across the elytron, having its 

 apex on the costal margin near the commencement of the concavity of the same. 



