1913] Neuropterous Genus Palpares. 187 



INDIAN SPECIES. 



1. A large spot over the fork of the cubitus in the hind wing 6. 



No such spot 2. 



2. An elongate spot along middle of hind margin of hind wing; median band does 



not reach across tigroides 



No such spot; median reaches across 3. 



3. Fore wings mostly dark, leaving only large and small pale spots, rather small 



species astutus 



Fore wings, mostly pale, with dark bands or spots 4. 



4. Margin of fore wings plainly sinuate; some bands of both wings reach across; 



large species 5. 



Margin of fore wings not sinuate, bands of fore wings not across; hardly across 

 in the hind wings papilionoides 



5. Tips of hind wings plainly falcate; stigmal band without projection toward 



median band falcatus 



Tips not falcate; stigmal spot with projection toward the tip of the median 

 band contrarius 



6. Two parallel stigmal bands, or spots 7. 



But one stigmal band, or broken into one series of spots 9. 



7. Both median and stigmal bands in hind wings reach across 8. 



Neither median nor stigmal reach across; margins of both wings narrowly 



dark astarte 



8. Median connected to basal spot; latter reaching across hind wing ... pattens 

 Median not connected to the basal, which does not reach across. . . .infirmus 



9. Apical mark of hind wings solid; stigma very broad and reaches across.. solidus 

 Apical mark with spots, or broken; stigmal band not very broad nor reaching 



across 10. 



10. A spot behind radius above the basal spot on the cubital fork of the hind 



wings; stigmal mark running obliquely inward zebratus 



No spot behind radius; stigmal band extending outward, or curved inward. . 



pardus 



Palpares astarte n. sp. 



Figure— Plate XIX, Figure 18. 



Head yellowish; a row of pale hairs across clypeus, and on margin 

 of labrum; a black spot narrowing behind on vertex, continued over 

 thorax as a median stripe, widest on the mesothorax, dark stripe on 

 sides of pronotum, and stripe on meso and metathorax over base of 

 the wings; abdomen yellowish brown, a black spot on apex of the first 

 segment; legs and sternum all black. Wings rather yellowish, and with 

 yellowish venation; costa black, and with black points out on costals, 

 but costals are pale ; outer posterior margin of both pairs of wings dark 

 brown; fore wings with five series of spots; a long streak on cubitus 

 broader at tip and bending down; a spot above it behind the radius; an 

 oblique band beyond the streak reaching from radius to more than one- 

 half way across; beyond this are two spots in an oblique row; then three 

 spots in a transverse row, one stigmal, the other two in form of streaks; 

 the two subapical marks are not quite streaks. In hind wings is a spot 

 on cubital fork, a band beyond reaching to beyond middle where it 

 is enlarged; a curved band beyond this, not reaching either radius or 

 hind margin, larger behind; then two large spots, one stigmal, the other 

 close behind it; then a sinuous band before apex. Wings of moderate 

 breadth; in fore wing the third anal is connected to the fourth four or 

 five times, in hind wings the third anal has an oblique vein running into 

 the second anal, and one cross-vein beyond it. Expanse 125 mm. 



From Chapra, Bengal, India (Mackenzie). 



