220 ICnXEU^lOXFD.'E. 



entirely and the hind ones beneatli Ihivous ; troelianters red or 

 flavuLis, with the hind ones, and sometimes also the anterior, partly 

 bhu-k ; hind tarsi and apices of tibiic infuscate. Winr/s iridescent 

 and snbhyaline ; stigma and radius testaceo-stramineous, radix 

 and teguhc whitish ; areolet irregularly triangular or oblicpie, 

 petiolate or subpetiolate ; nervellns not intercepted above the 

 lower fourth, oFten almost at the lower angle, but a little higher 

 iu c?- 



Lenr/th 6-7 millim. 



SiKKiM: Darjiling, GOUO ft., x-O") (E. Brnnettl). 



Type m the JJreslaii Museum. 



This common European species, w Inch is known to prey upon 

 Noctuids, Geometrids, and Phiti/i^feri/.v, evidently has an un- 

 expected eastern distribution. Jirunetti's broken specimen is in 

 the Calcutta IMuseum. 



152. Phytodisetus capu£e, sp. n. 



d" 5 . A black, brightly Havous-marked species. Head narrowed 

 behind the eyes and the mouth, cheeks, face and frontal orbits to 

 vertex, flaA'ous ; mandibles ajiically and a fascia before the clypeus 

 black. Antenna' very slender and distinctly longer than the bodv ; 

 scape black, and in c? flavous beneath ; tlagellum entirely black". 

 TJiora.v black", with the pronotum, propleurse basally, hamate marks 

 before the radix, two large callosities beneath it, a circular mark 

 on disc of mesonotum, the lateral sutures and most of apical half 

 of metathorax, with spots above the posterior coxa\ fiavoiis ; 

 (S with mesopleurse entirely tlavous below. ScutcUum, post- 

 scutellum and both freni bright flavous, with no central black 

 mark. Abdomen a little longer than head and thorax, and in <S 

 slightly narrower than the latter; all the segments with bright 

 glaucons-flavous margins ; basal segment hardly half as long again 

 as broad at its apex, subparallel-sided and distinctly explanate on 

 either side at its base, c? spiracles strongly prominent ; second 

 segment longer than broad and the following transverse, all 

 nitidulous and obsoletely shagreened, with short close recumbent 

 golden ])ubescence ; J valvula? exserted ; abdomen o millim., terebra 

 2 millim. Legs pale fulvous and distinctly elongate, with the coxie 

 and trochanters stramineous and only the hind coxfe broadly black- 

 marked beneath ; hind tai-si and most of their tibife blackish, the 

 latter basally ferruginous. ^Vin(Js iridescent and not clouded; 

 stigma and radius testaceous, radix and teguhe stramineous ; 

 areolet acutely triangular and subpetiolate, emitting the recurrent 

 nervure onl}' just before its apex ; nervellus intercepted at its 

 lower third. 



Length 6-8 milliii;. 



Cetlo^- : Punilaluoya (E. E. Green). 



Type in the autiiors collection. 



This species is probably most closely allied to P. pohjzonias, 

 FiJrst., from which, besides its A'ery distinctive coloration, it differs 



