364 Mr. Bridgman's additions to T. A. Marshall's 



or less black, hinder ones the most so ; apical joints of the tarsi 

 fuscous. Tegulae and base of wings white ; stigma fuscous, base 

 pale ; wings slightly fuscous. Female. Length nearly 5 mm. 



One female taken by Mr. G. C. Champion at Box 

 Hill. 



Aptesis hemiptera, Gr., $ . 



Mr. J. J. Walker has fortunately bred both sexes of 

 A. hemiptera from Catoptria microgramma, and I am 

 indebted to Mr. G. C. Bignell for a pair of them. 

 C. G. Thomson, in Opuscula Ent., 993, 70, described an 

 insect as the male of A. hemiptera, but it is evidently 

 not the true male. He says the stigma at the base is 

 not broadly white ; in Mr. Walker's male the base is 

 white, as in the female, and legs are differently coloured. 

 It is like no male that I have seen any description of. 



Head and thorax smooth and shining, with a few punctures 

 very minute, and almost obsolete ; head transverse, sides behind 

 the eyes slightly sloping ; antennae filiform, about three-fourths 

 the length of the body. Thorax short, about as long as high, as 

 wide as the head, distinctly trilobed in front ; metathorax short ; 

 supero-medial area subquadrate, smooth and shining ; lateral areas 

 divided (these and posterior face, which is rather concave and 

 subdivided by two perpendicular lines, rather finely rugose) ; 

 posterior transverse costa terminating laterally in a short spine. 

 Abdomen subovate, almost as wide as the thorax, rather longer 

 than the head and thorax, apex of 3rd and base of 4th segments 

 the widest part ; post-petiole quadrate, twice as wide and one-third 

 shorter than the petiole ; spiracles not prominent ; 1st and 2nd 

 segments distinctly aciculate, 3rd obsoletely so in the middle ; 

 abdomen covered with rather scattered pubescence ; 2nd and 

 remaining segments transverse. Legs rather slender ; calcarise of 

 hind tibiae almost half as long as 1st tarsal joint. Wings with an 

 imperfect pentagonal areolet ; radial cell short and wide ; posterior 

 inferior angle of discoidal cell acute ; transverse discoidal nervure 

 divided below the middle, transverse anal subopposite, divided 

 below the middle. 



Black ; 2nd and greater part of 3rd segments castaneous ; front 

 and middle legs pale chestnut; coxa?, base of trochanters, tarsi, 

 and extreme apex of middle tibiae, black; hind legs black ; apex 

 of trochanters, base of femora, and middle of tibiae, red. Tegulae 

 piceous ; stigma black, base white ; wings smoky, with a sub- 

 obsolete white blotch against the stigma, as in the female, but less 

 distinct. Length, 5 mm. 



