tgii-l (Bravely & Maulik : Tree-haunting Neuropter a. 105 



but with a pair of very distinct ventral lobes each bearing four stout 

 blunt spines. 



General dorsal colour dull, earth-like. Mandibles dark near the 

 base, reddish in the middle, intense black from the longest tooth to 

 the tip. Head dull brown, mottled with ochraceous between and 

 for a short distance behind the ocular tubercles. Pronotum brown 

 mottled with ochraceous. Mesonotum and metanotum brown near 

 the mid-dorsal line, ochraceous speckled with brown laterally, these 

 extensive pale lateral patches becoming more conspicuous as the 

 larva grows older; the anterior pair of lateral processes of both 

 meso- and metanotum paler than the posterior ones. Abdomen 

 brown with a pair of transverse ochraceous bands on each of the 

 first eight segments but most conspicuous on the anterior ones ; 

 these bands are arranged one behind the other so as to form a pair 

 of pale longitudinal stripes contmuous in front with the lateral 

 patches of the thorax and fading gradually out behind ; the ninth 



Pig. B. — Ocular tubercle of undetermined Ascalaphid larva from Bhogaon, 

 X 75. 



segment is brown in front and ochraceous behind. The whole of the 

 dorsal surface is rough in appearance, and the abdomen is much 

 wrinkled transversely. 



On the ventral side the colour of the mandibles resembles 

 that of the dorsal ; the head is polished and uniformly brown 

 except for a spot in the middle line between the anterior parts 

 of the two ocular tubercles, a short longitudinal stripe situated 

 on each side about half-way between the ocular tubercles and the 

 middle line, and a patch— bifid behind — at the base of each of 

 these tubercles, all of which are ochraceous ; the thorax and abdo- 

 men are ochraceous thickly speckled with brown. 



Cocoon and Pupa (fig. 15).— Cocoon approximately spherical, 



