igio.] F. V. Theobald ; Report on Cu/icidcs 25 



51. Cliyysoconops pygmceus^ Theobald. Pis. i and iii, wing and' 

 wing scales. 



Rec. Ind. Mus., ii, p. 300, 1908, $ . 



& . Head ochreous-brown with small narrow-curved golden 

 scales and rich golden brown upright forked scales and golden 

 chsetge; palpi and proboscis black, the apical segment a little 

 more than half the length of the penultimate, blunth* acuminate, 

 long dark hairs on the last two segments. Antennse brown with 

 white inter nodes and dark brown plume hairs. Thorax shiny 

 bright brown with narrow-curved golden scales and golden chaetse. 

 Abdomen ochreous when pointed from the light, dark when to the 

 light, of violet hue, the latter showing only on the apical borders 

 in some lights. Genitalia with the claspcrs curved on themselves, 

 broader and flat apically with a short, thick subapical dark spine. 

 Legs uniforml}' dark brown with ochreous reflections, ])ale at their 

 bases; fore ungues unequal, the larger with a small lateral basal 

 tooth and a very large one near the middle, the smaller simple ; 

 mid ungues unequal, the smaller simple, the larger wdth a large 

 basal tooth and a narrower and more basal central one ; hind 

 ungues equal and simple. Wings with short fork-cells, the first 

 longer and narrower than the second, its base nearer the apex of 

 the wing, its stem as long as the cell; stem of the second posterior 

 as long as the cell ; posterior cross-vein as long as the mid , about 

 twice its own length distant from it. 



Length 5 mm. 



Habitat Purneah, N. Bengal (C. Paiva)\ Rajmahal, Bengal 

 {R. Hodgart) ; and Calcutta {Annandale). 



Time of capture 6-viii-07 ji-vii-O/, ly-vii-O/. 



Observations. — The 2 was described in the first report. One 

 cT' has been retained as a co-t3q)e for the British ]\Iuseum collection. 



Dr. Annandale says the eyes of the male are iridescent 

 green in life. 



52. Lophoceratoinyia bicornuta, sj). nov. 



Head of male very similar to L. fraudatrix but the antennal 

 organs quite distinct. Thorax rich brown. Abdomen dark brown 

 unhanded, ochreous ventrally. Legs brown unhanded, base of 

 femora paler. Two prominent lateral horn-hke processes on the 

 basal segments of the antenncc. 



b . Head similar to that of L. fraudatrix. Palpi brown, a 

 little longer than the proboscis, bluntly acuminate, the apical seg- 

 ment slightly longer than the penultimate, the whole palpi with 

 short, scanty hairs; no trace of the basal process seen in fraudatrix. 



Antennae plumose, plume hairs brown, internodes pale, basal 

 segment with a large horn-like process on the inner side as in 

 brevipalpus, with a series of fine hairs on Ihc upjier side; antennal 

 organs on four segments. 



Thorax rich brown, showing two median parallel brighter 

 l)rown broad lines; covered scantilv with \-ery small curved 



