248 Mr. R. M‘Lachlan’s Descriptions of . 
Malayan Archipelago, however, Mr. Wallace says that he only 
oceasionally met with insects of this Order. The number of 
hitherto described extra-European species is about 260; of which 
150 are from North America, and about 80 from Ceylon, leaving 
only 80 for the greater part of the Asiatic continent and islands, 
Australia, New Zealand, Africa and South America. 
Fam. PARYGANIDZ:. 
Genus PurycGanea, Linn. 
1. Phryganea japonica, n. sp. 
P. antennis nigricantibus, ad apicem ochraceis ; capite dense 
griseo-piloso ; mesothorace rufo-ochraceo, utrinque nigri- 
cante ; alis anticis ad apicem sinuato-excisis, griseo-cinereis, 
griseo-reticulatis, vittis duabus vel tribus nigricantibus in 
cellulis apicalibus positis, punctoque ad thyridium albido; 
posticis pallide aurantiacis, ad apicem late nigricante-fuscis ; 
pedibus griseo-ochraceis ; tarsorum articulorum apicibus, 
tibiis anticis et intermediis ad apicem, posticisque totis, ex- 
terne fuscis ; abdomine rufo-ochraceo. ¢ margine superiori 
segmenti ultimi longe rufo-aurantiaco fimbriato ; appen- 
dicibus superioribus brevibus, subtriangularibus ; intermediis 
rectis, aciculatis, testaceis ; inferioribus subrotundatis, spina 
brevi incurvata instructis; lamina ventrali ad marginem late 
rotundata, (¢ et 9.) 
Var. 9. Alis anticis vitta lata nigricante. 
Long. corp. 9—11 lin. ; exp. alar. 26—382 lin. 
Habitat in Japonia. 
In Muss. Brit. et mihi. 
Antenne blackish, becoming ochraceous at the tips. Head 
thickly clothed with greyish pubescence. Palpi blackish. Me- 
sothorax reddish-ocherous, blackish at the sides. Anterior wings 
with the apical margin sinuated and excised ; yellowish cinereous, 
reticulated with grey, and with a short black streak in some of the 
apical cells ; a whitish indistinct spot at the thyridium. Posterior 
wings pale orange, the apex broadly blackish-fuscous, in which 
portion the veins appear darker. Legs greyish-ochreous; the 
apices of the anterior and intermediate tibiz and of the tarsal 
joints blackish-fuscous externally, as is the whole of the ex- 
ternal side of the posterior tarsi; tibia with black spines. 
Abdomen reddish-ochreous. In the male the upper margin 
of the last abdominal segment is fringed with long reddish- 
