17-A HYDEOMETRID^. 



Genus MICROVELIA. 



Microvelia, Westw. Ati7j. Soc. Euf. Fr. iii. p. 647 (1834) ; Aim/. ^- Serv. 



Hem. p. 421 (1843) ; Saund. Hem. Het. Brit. Islds. p. 150 (1892). 

 Hydroessa, Burm. Handb. ii, p. 213 (1835) ; Fieber, Fur. Hem. 



pp. 33, 104 (1861) ; StSl, Hem.Afr. iii, p. 167 (1865). 



Type, M. pulchella, an Antillean species. 



Distri/mtion. Very widely, probably universally, distributed. 



Head triangular, eyes very large, near to, sometimes touching, 

 anterior margin of prouotum, ocelli absent : antennae with the 

 basal joint incrassate, passing apex of head, second joint at apex 

 about as thick as the first ; rostrum reaching disk of mesosternum ; 

 pronotum with its basal margin angularly dilated and posteriorly 

 produced ; hemelytra submembranous, the veins thickened ; 

 connexivum reflexed ; intermediate femora rather long, posterior 

 femora slightlv incrassate. 



1)59. Microvelia repentina, sp. n. 



Head, pi'onotum and body beneath 



piceous ; anterior margin of pronotum, 



connexivnm, antennse and legs ochraceous ; 



hemelytra creamy-white, reaching the apex 



of the abdomen, the veins dull ochraceous ; 



first and second joints of antennae subequal 



in length ; pronotuui with the lateral angles 



subprominent. 



^ Length 1.^ millim. 



,,. ^f ^-'- ,. Hab. Calcutta. 



Miciovelia repentina. 



960. Microvelia Singalensis, Kirk. Entomologist, xxxvi, p. 180 

 (1908). 



Head and pronotum piceous, lateral margins of head and 

 anterior margin of pronotum silvery-grey ; hemelytra bluish-grey 

 with piceous venation, thus giving the appearance of bluish-gre}' 

 spots, its apical area piceous, with a distinct elongate apical bluish- 

 grey spot ; connexivum ochraceous, much upwardly refiexed ; 

 body beneath piceous with silvery-grey pubescence ; legs and 

 antennse ochraceous ; fii'st and second joints of antenna:;, apices 

 of tibiae, and the tarsi more or less infuscated ; body distinctly 

 narrowed posteriorly ; pronotum with a distinct central longi- 

 tudinal carination, its lateral angles obtusely subprominent ; first 

 and second joints of antennse thickened, third and fourth slender 

 and longest, foui-th longer than third. 



Length 1| millim. 



Bah. Ceylon ; Pundaluoya, Gampola (Green). 



Mr. Green kindly sent to me specimens of this species which 

 were caught in an acetylene moth-trap. 



