i8 Records of the Indian Museum. [Voi,. IV, 



4-iv-o5 [Brunetti) ; Dhikala, Naini Tal district, 22-iv-o8 (4), 26-iv-o8 

 (5), Chuharwala, Naini Tal district, i5-iv-o8 (3), Patair Naini 

 Tal district, 27-iv-o8 (3) {Hodgart). 



The Punjab {plains). — Lahore, 8-V-08 (11) {Annandale) ; 

 Ferozepore [Lt.-Col. A die). 



At sea. — Ba}' of Bengal, on ship between mouth of R. 

 Hooghly and Rangoon, 22 and 23-ii-o8 (Annandale). 



Java. — Soerabaya, 16 — 25-vii-o6 [Britneiti). 



Philippines. — ^Manilla, 10 — i6-iii-o6 {Brunetti). 



^y. Ciilex parascelos, sp. nov. 



Thorax golden brown, and with three paler median parallel 

 lines, the areas between them darker than the sides; head, palpi 

 and proboscis bright ochreous, apex of the latter black. Abdomen 

 entirely clothed with ochreous scales. Legs ochreous-brown above, 

 pale ochreous below with dark and ochreous linear ornamentation. 

 "Wings with ochreous and brown scales on the veins near costa ; 

 fork-cells short; ungues large, all uniserrate. 



9 . Head brown with small narrow-curved pale golden scales, 

 ochreous upright forked scales, somewhat darker behind; 

 ochreous chsetae ; clypeus and palpi bright ochreous, almost golden 

 yellow, the latter with prominent black chsetse; proboscis the 

 same colour, dark at the apex, with black chsetae. Antennae 

 brown, ochreous at base. Thorax deep brown, clothed with 

 scant}^ small narrow-curved pale golden and rich golden brown 

 scales, the former making two prominent lateral median lines and 

 an indistinct median one ; chsetae bright golden brown ; scutellum 

 brown with narrow-curved pale golden scales and golden brown 

 chsetse ; metanotum brown ; pleune brown with patches of 

 flat ochraceous scales. Abdomen dark, densely clothed with 

 bright ochreous-yellow scales and pale border bristles; venter 

 pale ochreous. 



Legs ochreous with dusk}^ scales above, femora pale below; a 

 marked yellow and black line showing on the femora and tibiae ; 

 ungues dark, all equal and uniserrate, rather thick. 



Wings tinged with 3^ellow, some pale scales on the costa and 

 sub-costal, remainder dark, except for a few creamy ones on the 

 base of the first long vein ; first submarginal cell much longer and 

 narrower than the second posterior cell, its base slightly nearer 

 the base of the wing, its stem about two-and-ahalf times the 

 length of the cell ; stem of the broad second posterior as long as 

 the cell ; posterior cross-vein about the same length as the mid, 

 not its own length distant from it. 



Length 5-5 mm. 



Habitat Madras town {R. Hodgart). 



Time of capture 30-X-08. 



Observations. — Described from two 9 's. A very marked 

 species easily told by the thoracic ornamentation, ochreous-scaled 

 abdomen and lined legs. 



