OPHIONIN^. 343 



second broader, though liardly shorter, and sHglitly M'idened 

 apically ; ventral fold strong on tlie three pale basal segments ; 

 spicula dark, valvnla) ilavescent, slightly exserted from the hypo- 

 ])ygiiim, which extends to the anns. Legs elongate and very 

 slender, the anterior testaceous, with the'coxte and trochanters 

 stramineous ; hind legs red, with the large and strongly trans- 

 strigose coxse black, trochanters pale and the hind tarsi white, 

 except the basal and apical half of the last joint, which are, like 

 the apices of their tibia), blackish. TF/nr/s narrow but not small ; 

 stigma, costa and nervures piceous ; radix and tegular stramineous ; 

 basal nervure not quite continuous ; second recurrent broadly 

 bifenestrate. 



Length 8| raillim. 



Pu^'JAB: Simla, viii. 98 {Col. Nurse). 



Tyj^e in Col. Nurse's collection. 



The foregoing description is drawn from the type of the 

 species. 



Subfamily OPHIONIN^E. 



The number of species of this subfamily that have been de- 

 scribed or recorded from Asia, outside British India, is probably 

 about equal to the forty -three kinds given by Dalhi Torre as 

 indigenous to this area in 1901. The principal -authors of the 

 former are Kokujew, M'ho has erected several species of Paniscus 

 from Eussian Transcaucasia, Pamir, Siberia and Transcaspia 

 (Horae Soc. entom. Ross. 1899, p. 142, etc.) ; Erulle and Taschen- 

 berg (Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1875, p. 421), who have described a few 

 large species from Hahnaheira, Java, etc. ; A^an Volleuhoven 

 also described some conspicuous insects from Eatavia ; Smitli 

 brought forward a few from Chinese Turkestan and others 

 from Japan (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1874, and Second Tarkand 

 Mission). And from the latter locality, Prancis Walker de- 

 scribed (Cistula Entom. 1874, p. 306, etc.) new kinds of Sagaritis, 

 Gamiyoplex and CJiarops; while an Anomalid is recorded by 

 Krieclibanmer (Nat. Ges. Leipzig, 1894, p. 129). Smith has 

 further informed us of others from Celebes, Borneo, Kaisaa, etc. 

 (Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond, 1860, Suppl. p. 04); Holmgren found a 

 new Limneriuiti from China (Eugenics llesa. Insect. 1868, p. 412), 

 and Radoszkowsky an undescribed Ophion from Korea (Ilorae 

 See. ent. Ross. 1887, p. 433). This, with the addition of a very 

 few species brought forward by Olivier, Tschek and others from 

 Asia Minor, rei)resents practically the total of our knowledge up 

 to the beginning of the present century. 



To the above forty-tliree species Cameron has subsequently 

 added some sixty kiiuls, in ])ul)lishing the ca|)tures of Col. Nurse 

 in N'orth-AVest India and of Mr. Green in Ceylon. These were 



