460 APTDiE. 



thorax, and logs with a pale hrownish pubescence ; the posterior 

 femora each with a long curled floccus of pale hairs, the inside of 

 the posterior tibine and tarsi densely pubescent, the pubescence 

 with a rich golden sheen in certain lights ; wings brownish fuscous, 

 with a darker cloud at the apex of the fore wing. 



Hah. Sumatra; Sikhim. $. Lengtfi I'A ; exp. 2Q mm. 



Genus STEGANOMUS. 



Steganomus, Hits. Tijd. v. Ent. viii, 1873, p. 224. 

 Cyathocera, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, p. 47. 



Type, S. javanus, Eits. 

 Ravge. The Oriental region. 



Head subovate, as w ide as the thorax, the ocelli in a curve on 

 the vertex ; eyes slightly convergent beneath ; 

 antennte short, tiliform in the female, longer, with 

 the apical tuo segments in the male dilated, 

 spatulate and discoid at apex; mandibles biden- 

 tate in the female, simple and acute at apex in 

 the male ; labial palpi 4-jointed; maxillary palpi 

 6-jointed, the latter decreasing sensibly both in 

 width and length from base to apex. Thorax 

 ovate, the posterior femora ( $ )with a floccus of 

 p,.^ ,.^ longhair; in cj' svvoUen, the posterior tibiae also 



Stcqanomus nodi- dilated towards the apex, the inferior apical angle 

 cornis, (S • I- produced: wings with the radial cell somewhat 

 narrow, oblong ; two cubital cells, the 2nd receiv- 

 ing both recurrent nervures, and narrowed above by the convergence 

 of the 1st and 2nd transverse cubital nerviu-es. Abdomen subovate. 



814. Steganomus nodicomis, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, p. 47, 5 c?, 



pi. i, tigs. 5, 5 a, 5 b. 



2 . Head, the clypeus with a few coarse large punctures, vertex 

 more closely punctured ; thorax and abdomen smooth, but opaque ; 

 the clj^peus nearly transverse, anteriorly flat; median segment 

 short, very steeply rounded at the sides, the middle truncate ; 

 abdomen ovate, the apical margins of segments 1-5 slightly but 

 broadly depressed. Head, thorax, coxae, and the basal margins of 

 abdominal segments 3-5 above black ; the antennse and the rest 

 of the legs and of the abdomen ferruginous red ; the face as high 

 as the ocelli, the cheeks, and the apical margins broadly of the 

 3rd (sometimes the 4th) and following abdominal segments 

 covered with rich golden pubescence ; the pronotum, a narrow line 

 at the base of the scutellum, the postscutellum, the sides of the 

 median segment, and the legs with yellow pubescence, very glitter- 

 ing and bright on the legs ; the 2nd to 4th abdominal segments 

 Avith lateral oblong spots of white pubescence, generally more or less 

 abraded ; wings subhyaline, broadly dark fuscous along the apical 

 margin, nervures pale testaceous ; tegulae remarkably large, shining 

 ferruginous. 



(S similar, the vertex of the head finely, the abdominal segments 



