52 Rev. T. A. Marshall's monograph of 



body ; of the ? hardly shorter, 34-joiuted ; head and thorax very 

 finely punctiilate, pubescent ; metathorax obsoletely areated ; abdo- 

 men obovate, sef:;ment 1 anp;ulated at the base, from thence to the 

 apex nearly linear, one-half longer than its width, with two cariure 

 slightly convergent posteriorly, the interstices punctulate, and the 

 apical angles with a membranaceous margin: segment 2 ^ punc- 

 tulate at the base ; the rest smooth, shorter: legs ochraceous or 

 subfuscous : stigma large, ovate-lanceolate, emitting the radius 

 from about the middle. 



A single <? taken in England by Walker. The ? , 

 in Fitch's collection, exhibits differences of colour, but 

 there is little doubt that it belongs to this species. 



iv. Rhysipolis, Forst. 



Forst., Verb. pr. Rheinl., 1862, p. 235. 



Suturiforra articulation obsolete. Radius springing from the 

 middle of the stigma : recurrent nervure inserted hi the 1st cubital 

 areolet : pobrachial areolet of the hind wing hardly longer than 

 i of the prajbrachial. Terebra short, exserted. 



1. Rhysipolis meditator, Hal. (PI. I., fig. 5). 



Colastes meditator, Hal., Ent. Mag., iv., 56, c? . 



Black ; palpi and legs ferruginous ; stigma fuscous ; abdomen 

 brown, the 1st segment black : prirbrachial transverse norvure in 

 the hind wings wanting. ^ $ . Length, If ; wings, 3^ lin. 



Head almost hemispheric, as broad as the thorax : antennae ^ 

 31-jointed, as long as the body : thorax elongate, attenuated in 

 front and behind, shining, with scattered pxibescence ; metathorax 

 thinly rugoso-rcticulated, indistinctly areated, the intermediate 

 areolet not penetrating between the two dorsal : abdomen linear, 

 gradually attenuated towards the base : 1st segment one-half 

 longer than its apical width, at the base only half as wide as at the 

 apex, the tubercles placed a little before the middle ; two acute 

 longitudinal carinas coalesce in the middle of the disk, and con- 

 tinue thence to the apex ; the rest of the surface is shiuiug, and 

 minutely rugulose : the other segments are smooth, brown, with 

 darker hind margins : legs elongate, pubescent, ferruginous : wings 

 subhyaline, radix and squamulaj ferruginous, ncrvures and stigma 

 brown, the latter oblougo-lanceolate : pobrachial areolet of the hind 

 wing hardly longer than J of the prsebrachial. Terebra shorter 

 than I abdomen. 



The (? was taken once near London by Walker ; a ? 

 in bad condition is in my collection. 



