Mr. T. B. Fletcher on the genus Deuterocopus. 109 
to first segment, divergent from second su’osegment; pale tawny- 
fuscous, suffused with fuscous ; base of cleft preceded and edged by 
a longitudinal blackish discal spot; first segment with central third 
pale-tawny, cut at | by a narrow transverse white line, area beyond 
this pale-tawny ; second segment pale-tawny at base of second cleft; 
subsegments cut at of their length by a narrow white line, area 
beyond this paler. Cilia on costa fuscous-brown, pale-ochreous 
opposite paler areas, a whitish subapical dot ; on hiirder-margin of 
first segment whitish-ochreous mixed with a few whitish liairs and 
scattered black scales, on third fourth blackish, on outer fourth 
whitish-ochreous ; on fore-margin of second segment pale-ochreous, 
blackish on central third of segment; orr hinder-margin of first sub¬ 
segment whitish-ochreous with a few scattered black scales; on 
fore-margin of second subsegirreut whitish-ochreous orr first forrrth of 
segment, beyond J pale-firscous with a few scattered black scales , 
on dorsrrrn ochreous-whitish berreath bases of both clefts, otherwise 
blackish, with minute black scale-tufts at f and apex. 
Iliudwing cleft from within J arnl from near base, segments very 
slender and lirrear j dark-fuscous. Cilia dark-fuscorrs, third seg 
nrerrt orr both margins with a large black apical scale-tooth and a 
few scattered black scales between this and base. 
Type ^ (No. 41944') in Walsingham Coll., and Co-t 3 ^pe 
(No. 8527) in Bainbrigge Fletcher Coll.; both from Ron, 
New Guinea, in July 1897 {Doherty). A third example 
in Lord Walsingham’s collection was collected by Doherty 
at Humboldt Bay, Northern New Guinea, in April 1893. 
Deuterocopus, Z. 
Deuterocopus, Zeller, Linn. Ent., vi, 402 (1852) ; Bull. Soc. 
Nat. Mosc., XXvi, pt. ii, PI. 4 ff. 17-20 ; Walker, 
Cat., XXX, 951 (1864); Meyrick, T.E.S., 1886, 8 ; Rebel, 
Denk. Matli-Nat. K.K. Ak. Wiss., Ixxi (ii), 85-87 
(1907) ; Fletcher, Spolia Zeylan., vi, 16-19, PI. B 
f. C. (1909). 
Deuteroscopus, Hofmann, Iris, xi, 329 (1898) ; Pagen- 
stecher, Abh. Ges. Zook, xxix, 241. 
The following is a translation of Zeller s original 
diagnosis of the genus :— 
“ Deuterocopus, nov. geii. (From bevrepos, second, and 
KOTiro), I cut.) 
Forewings semi-trifid (== bifid, the second segment also bifid). 
Hindwings trifid, the third segment very .short. Abdomen stout. 
