420 Records of the Indian Museum. [VoL.. Vite 
of Kilimandjaro, separated this genus from Kieffer’s Phacosema 
by the absence of the cubital petiole. Buckton’s original descrip- 
tion and accompanying figure clearly show that this is not true. 
As a matter of fact, these two species, Phacopteron lentiginosum, 
Buckt., and Phacosema gallicolla, Kieffer, are undoubtedly not only 
congeneric but also very closely related specifically. Until I have 
further evidence, however, than Kieffer’s description, I wili not 
merge the two genera. 
Phacopteron lentiginosum, Buckt. 
(Pll xxi Sess AL hs Plax xen. toes) 
Length of body 4°7 mm.; length of forewing 4° mm. ; 
greatest width of wing 2 mm. ; width of vertex between eyes °45 
mm.; with eyes ‘9 mm. General colour brown, most of surface 
blotched with lighter brown, especially on vertex, pronotum and 
abdomen; venter lighter brown; legs concolorous; antennae 
brown, with tips of segments and entire terminal segment black ; 
forewings maculated apically dark brown to black; veins spotted 
closely with black. Body very large, robust, sparsely and briefly 
pubescent. 
Head small, retracted under pronotum, with eyes much 
narrower than thorax, about as broad as prothorax; vertex 
transversely rather flat but rounded down forward; post-ocelli 
strongly elevated; facial cones short, widely separate at base, 
divergent, porrect, subacute at tip; pubescence short; labrum 
small; eyes large, hemispherical; ocelli large; anterior ocellus 
between and a little above facial cones; antennae slender, long, 
almost as long as head and thorax, tip slightly clavate. 
Thorax very large, broad, strongly arched; pronotum long, 
almost overhanging vertex; propleurites moderately large, with 
suture between them and pronotum scarcely visible. Dorsulum 
ascending, long; mesopleurites very large, conspicuous; scutum 
long; legs long, large; all femora somewhat enlarged, stout, with 
tibial groove deep, conspicuous; tibiae armed; tarsi large; hind 
coxae very large, elongate, with coxal spur small, blunt. Fore- 
wings large, hyaline, maculate, somewhat rhomboidal in shape, a 
little more than twice as long as broad, broadest just beyond first 
marginal cell; cubital petiole more than half as long as discoidal 
subcosta; radius straight, not parallel to margin, connected with 
arch of fourth furcal by short cross-vein, thence flexed sharply 
toward margin, terminating slightly before apex of wing; first 
marginal cell small, furcals subequal; second marginal cell 
quadrangular, broadest at margin; third marginal cell includes 
apex of wing. 
Abdomen large, robust. Male—Genital segment rounded; 
claspers rather short, roundly acute at tip, curved forward; anal 
valve large, broadest near base. Female—Genital segment 
relatively small, acute at apex; dorsal and ventral plates subequal 
in length, 
