300 Records of the Indian Museum. [Voh. Ill, 1909.] 



side of the disk near its centre. Postscutellum imperfectly sepa- 

 rated, transverse, band-like, with a single bristle on either side. 

 IMetanotum large, transverse, with the anterior nirargin sinuous and 

 Ijie posterior convex. (The ventral surface and the sides are 

 concealed in the type.) 



Wings. — Fore wings long and slender with the tip obliquely 

 rounded ; the base ver^^ narrow, becoming somewhat dilated just 

 behind the point at which the marginal fringe commences on the 

 posterior margin. The hairs that form this fringe numbering 

 about 45, long and slender, becoming shorter towards the base of 

 the wing on both margins, the longest (at the tip) being rather less 

 than half as long as the wing without the fringe ; within the fringe, 

 near the edge of the wing, a row of minute bristles, and two 

 similar bristles near the centre of the disk ; on the anterior surface 

 a single long bristle at the widest part of the wing. Posterior 

 wing almost linear, very little dilated distally; the tip narrowly 

 rounded; the fringe without an inner row of bristles, consist- 

 ing on the anterior margin of 5 short hairs followed, distally, 

 by about 20 long ones, and on the posterior margin of about 11 

 moderate hairs, which are only a little longer at the distal end 

 than towards the base ; the basal half of the posterior margin 

 bare ; a minutely serrated ridge runs down the middle of the dis- 

 tal half of the wing. 



Legs moderately long, with the femora, tibiae and tarsi sub- 

 equal; the tarsi minutely hairy, consisting of 5 subequal joints 

 and bearing two minute claws at the tip. The tibiae of the middle 

 and hind legs clothed with minute recumbent hairs and bearing a 

 pair of small bristles at the tip ; those of the middle legs bearing a 

 single, longer bristle on the anterior surface. 



Abdomen {&) stout and rounded; the sides clothed with scale- 

 like hairs ; the first dorsal segment bearing a single bristle on 

 either side near the posterior margin ; the penultimate segment 

 with a pair of unequal bristles on either side, the longer bristle 

 being posterior to and nearer the middle of the segment than the 

 shorter one. 



Remarks. — As the specimen was not discovered until it had 

 fallen into clove oil, which had- rendered it partially transparent. 

 I cannot describe its coloration in detail. The head (including the 

 antennae), the thorax and the abdomen appear, however, to have 

 been dark in colour, and the limbs pale. The wing fringes have 

 evidently been dark also, and it is just possible to detect a faint 

 white band running round those of the fore wings at a short dis- 

 tance from the base of the hairs. Unfortunately both antennee 

 were broken in mounting the specimen, but notes were taken on 

 their structure before this occurred. In the type (Reg. No. ^fp 

 of the Indian Museum insect register), which is mounted on a 

 glass slide for microscopic examination, only the first two joints 

 remain in situ, with the third to sixth joints of one antenna free. 

 Except the left fore wing, the wings have also become separated, 

 but all are preserved. 



