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as is the scutellum ; metanotum blackish grey. Sides of thorax 

 yellowish, pleurae a little white dusted. 



Abdomen moderatel}'- dark yellowish grey, with short yellow 

 hairs; belly concolorous, genitalia in both sexes small, brownish 

 yellow. 



Legs brownish yellow, thin and long; femora with some 

 stiff black hairs at the tip which, if viewed from certain directions, 

 give almost the appearance of two black spines ; tibiae unspined. 



Wings clear yellowish grey, veins distinct. Auxiliary vein ends 

 just be3^ond middle of wing, the subcostal cross -vein at its tip. 

 The ist longitudinal ends in the 2nd at the point where this latter 

 vein forks. The 2nd vein originates at or just be3^ond the 

 middle of the wing, at a sharp angle and turns at one-fifth 

 of its length suddenly upward, forking beyond its middle, where 

 it meets the tip of the ist vein, the upper branch shorter than 

 the lower one. The 3rd vein issues from the 2nd at the angle 

 in the praefurca, the anterior cross-vein placed just before this 

 point. The latter is of moderate length, placed over the middle 

 of the discal cell which is in the middle of the wing, three times 

 as long as broad, the proximal end pointed, emitting three nearly 

 parallel veins to the wing-margin. Posterior cross-vein near base 

 of discal cell ; 5th, 6th and 7th veins nearly straight. 



Described from a a' and three 2 2 dated respectively Pusa, 

 i5-viii-o8 (type cf); Calcutta, 19- viii-07 (type 2) and iS-vi-og ; 

 Pusa, i6-vii-io. 



Type & in Pusa collection, 2 in Indian Museum. 



Notes.— The venation of this genus is distinctly abnormal, 

 the only previously known species, singularis Skuse,' coming from 

 Australia. The ist longitudinal vein ends in the 2nd at the point 

 where the latter forks widel}^, thus giving the appearance of two 

 long veins crossing one another at an angle of 45°, the point of 

 contact in singularis being punctiform. In my species the 

 point of contact appears almost as a small cross- vein. Skuse's 

 description of his genus not being accessible I have had to rely 

 on Needham's figure (plate 19, fig. 5) copied from Skuse's work 

 and there can be no possible doubt of the new species being con- 

 generic at least as far as the wings go. 



Prof. Kertesz places Lechria in the Eriopterini near Go;?owyifl, 

 to one species of which, G. incompleta mihi, it bears a remarkable 

 resemblance in this part of the wing, and to which genus, 

 bengalensis as a species at any rate, is eminently akin. 



The only other possible interpretation of the wing as figured 

 by Needham would be to consider the ist vein as angled towards 

 the tip and continuing to the wing-margin, meeting at the angle 

 the 2nd vein, which in this case would be simple, not forked, thus 

 making only one submarginal cell, which in its turn would necessi- 

 tate the genus, theoretically at least, being removed to another 



I With the exception of hicida, Meij., recently described from Java. Tijd. v. 

 Ent.,liv, S3, $ (1911). 



