552 EIIYPIIIDiE. 



5. Costa daikor, towards tip of Aviug' 

 showing- distinctly a quite clear 

 square spot, only descending to ilie 

 3rd longitudinal vein, with a smaller 

 contiguous spot below ; a distinct, 

 narrow brown streak beyond pos- 

 terior cross-vein ; distal part cf wing 

 below 3rd longitudinal nearly clear, 

 with posterior veins very lightly 



suffused (Iistinctuf<, Brun., p. 556. 



Costa much lighter, showing towards 

 tip of wing only one, much less clear, 

 oval spot, always descending below 

 3rd longitudinal vein, without any 

 second spot adjacent ; no brown 

 streak outside posterior cross-vein; 

 distal part of wing below 3rd longi- 

 tudinal very slightly darker grey, 

 and this towards the margin only, 

 the posterior veins not individualh' 

 suffused ilivi.-<>is, Brun., p. 557. 



401. Rhyphus maciilipennis, Wuli). (PL XII, fig. 1.) 



Rhjphiis maculipennis, ^au der Wulp, Notes Leyd. Mus. vii, p. 14 

 (1885) ; id., Tijd. Ent. xxviii, p. 87, pi. iv, hg. 9, and op. cif., 

 xxxviii, p. 41, pi. ii, fig. 8. 



<S 2 • Hfcid brownish yellow ; ocellar triangle dark brown ; a 

 narrow line extending from it nearly to the base of the antenna^. 

 Frons with a few black hairs on vertex, and pale yellow hairs 

 below ; a small brown spot on the face betx^een the base of tlie 

 antennae and the eye-margin. Antenna? vari-coloured ; scape 

 and basal lialf of flagelluni brownisl? yellow , more or less marked 

 with brown, at least on the npperside ; 7th and 8th joints 

 blackish, 9th and 10th pale yellowish white, 11th to 14th black, 

 apical joint yellowish. Proboscis dark brown ; palpi brownish 

 yellow. Thorax yellowish with some pale yellow hairs and with 

 three dark brown stripes of the usual pattern, the median one 

 attaining the anterior margin ; an indistinct and irregular narrow 

 brown streak along the edge of the dorsum. Scutellum brownish. 

 Abdomen pale yellowish, with a black posterior border to each 

 segment, narrow on the 1st and 2nd, half the width of the 3rd 

 segment and nearly filling the dorsum of each of the remaining 

 segments ; a little pale pubescence on the abdomen. Belly 

 practically the snme as the npperside. Ler/s yellowish ; tips of 

 femora • and tibiae, and the major part of the tarsi brown or 

 brownish. Wings pale grey, beset with very small but distinct 

 short hairs; three moderately wide brown bands from the costa, 

 the first ending at the discal cell, the third apical, the second 

 intermediate between the two ; the second and third fading away 

 at about the same distance from the costa as the first ; costal cell 

 a little yellowish, as is also the base of the 1st basal cell ; a short 



