igog.] J. G. Needham : Notes on the N euro pter a. 203 



basally. Prothorax wider than long, with the front angles broadly 

 eroded, and the hind angles square, front and hind borders darker 

 in colour and with a sulcate middle brown median groove. 



The male is slightly smaller and the prothorax is as long as 

 wide, and on either side of its disc are four oblique brownish dashes 

 arranged in two pairs. 



The wings of both male and female are hyaline with veins 

 mostly yellow. The ends of all cross-veins abutting on the radial 

 vein are blackish, this colour more intense apically, where the apex 

 of the radial sector also is black. Gradate cross-veins black, and in 

 the inner series the connecting veins also. There are sixteen cross- 

 veins in the inner gradate series. The wing roots are strongly 

 stained with brown, including also a few stout basal cross-veins. 



Nothochrysa lefroyi, sp. nov, 



A number of specimens of both sexes represented in both 

 collections. In the Lefroy collection from Pusa, Bengal ; lyyallpur, 

 Punjab; and from the Khasi Hills, Assam (3,000 — 5,000 ft.). The 

 Museum specimens are from Kulu, W. Himalayas, and Sibsagar, 

 Assam (5. E. Peal) (Reg. Nos. "-^i^-* and -^-V-). 



Length of body 11 mm. AntenucC 14 mm. additional. Ex- 

 panse of wings 38 mm. ; fore wing length 18 mm., width 5 mm. ; hind 

 wing length 17 mm., width 4'5 mm. 



Colour dull fulvous, with phalerate sutural markings of greenish 

 black. Face tawny yellow, with reddish brown lines on the 

 sutures. Antennae black except at the base where two segments 

 are more or less yellowish. Eyes with coppery and greenish bronze 

 reflections. Prothorax with eroded front angles (as in the preced- 

 ing species) about as wide as long (a little wider in the female), 

 with a narrow mid-dorsal longitudinal sulcus, dull tawny yellowish 

 in colour, with darker, diffuse triangular spots extending upwards 

 from the sides in some of the (female) specimens. Meso- and meta- 

 thorax tawny yellow, phalerate with greenish black on the sutures. 

 Legs yellowish, hind ones paler. Wings hyaline, veins tawny 

 yellow, no black on cross-veins. Stigma diffuse, rather long. Nine 

 gradate cross-veins in the inner series, 



Nothochrysa indigena, sp. nov. 



Two specimens from Calcutta in the Museum collection, one 

 labelled " Indian Museum premises {R. Hodgart)." 



Length of body 13 mm. Antennae 15 mm. Expanse of wings 

 38 — 42 mm. Fore wing of the type specimen (Reg. No. -V*), 

 length 18 mm., width 7 mm.; hind wing, length 17 mm., width 

 5-5 mm. 



A yellowish fulvous species with a black dorsal band covering 

 the second and third segments of the thorax and the fourth, fifth, and 

 sixth segments of the abdomen, and with large and conspicuous 

 brown stigma. Head fulvous, including the antennae. Eyes with 



