126 JA.AIES WATERSTON. 



more on each side of the mid Hue of the sternum. The latter is posteriorly deeply 

 and rather narrowly emarginate in the middle. Metanotum strongly raised 

 reticulate, especially on the post-scutellum. Propodeon smooth between and behind 

 the oval outwardly directed spiracles. Below and behind the spiracle the pleurae- 

 are densely covered with bristles. The sulci running round the spiracles outside 

 broaden as they pass inwardly, being at their nearest point one-third of the distance 

 of the spiracles from one another. 



Wings : Fore wings more than twice as long as broad. Sub-marginal : radius : 

 post-marginal, as 10 : 6 : 3 : 4. Fringe short, discal cihation everywhere evenly set, 

 except along the hind margin near the base up to the middle of the frenulum. There 

 is a bare spot in the middle of the basal triangle just before the uprise of the marginal. 

 About 20 bristles on the marginal. Hind wings, 4:1. 





Fig. 3. Fore wing of E apelminus tarsatus, ^. 



Legs : Fore legs : the upper apical angle bears two short teeth or peg-like spines, 

 the apical comb 5-6 spines. The comb on the first tarsal joint (16 spines) is continued 

 along the antero-ventral edge of the joint to the apex by a row of 5-6 spinose bristles. 

 At the apex of the mid femur there are anteriorly, 4, posteriorly, 1, spinose bristles. 

 Hind coxae elongate (2:1), apical comb of tibia containing 9 strong bristles. In all 

 the tarsi the proportions are much alike and hardly different from those of the female. 

 The first is about twice the second, which exceeds the third, which is equal to the 

 fifth, and the fourth is shortest. 



Sycophaga cyclostigma, sp. nov. 



Head (10 : 9) flattened oblong, with prominent and entirely glabrous eyes which 

 are separated by rather over twice the diameter of either, and extend respectively 

 over one-half of the lateral margin. Vertex with a wide, V-shaped depression, forming 

 at the side two distinct posterior angles behind the eyes. Posterior ocelli (oval) on 

 vertex, anterior (circular) on frons, well within the post-scapal groove. Toruli oval, 

 ventrally truncate, convergent superiorly towards the mid line of the frons and 

 narrowly separated, set above mid way between the base line of the eyes and the 

 clypeal edge, but clear of the former. The latter with a median tooth set in a shallow 

 hollow which hardly exceeds the flat low lobes by which it is flanked. On each side 



