Mr. T, B. Fletcher on the gemis Deuterocoi^ns. 121 
BeuUroeogns lophopteryx, n. s. 
(Plate XLIV, fig. 6.) 
Denterocoims atrapex, Fletcher, Spolia Zeylanica, vi, pp. 
18-19 (gmrtim). 
$. Exp. 12 mm. Palpi erect, slender, smoothly-scaled, third 
joint about half length of second ; ferruginous, banded with darker 
apically; third joint ochreous-whitisli broadly banded with blackish 
beyond base and at apex. Head brownish-ferruginous, back of head 
with some anteriorly-erected scales. Haustellum well developed. 
Antennae minutely ciliated (about J)) ferruginous, aniiulated 
with darker. Thorax dark brown; i^ectus whiti.sh. Abdomen 
rather stout, dark ferruginous-brown with a nai’row darker dorsal 
line, first segment whitish-ochreous dorsally, second segment with 
divergent submedian whiti.sh-ochreous patches, fifth, seventh and 
eighth segments with small submedian whitish patches; venter 
whitish with a blackish bar across fourth segment. Foreleg pale- 
ferruginous dusted with whiti-sh ; tibia with a large apical flattened 
tuft of blackish scales ; tarsus darker apically. Midleg pale-fer¬ 
ruginous ; tibia with a large apical tuft of blackish scales beneath 
which projects a pair of moderate spurs ; tarsus lined with whitish 
above, darker posteriorly. Hindleg ochreous-whitish heavily dusted 
with dark-golden-feiTUginous ; tibia large and stout, provided at 
I and apex with whorls of blackish-coppery scales, of which whorls 
the second and third are subequal and larger than the first and each 
emits a pair of long .slightly-curved blackish-brown spiirs banded 
with whitish at middle and at apex and moderately clothed with 
short hairs on their i)osterior edges ; of these spurs, the inner 
proximal spur is longer than the outer proximal, both tliese being 
longer than either spur of the distal pair which are equal in 
length. 
Forewing short, cleft from |, second segment again cleft from f of 
its length ; segments narrow, sublinear : golden-ferruginous much 
suffused with blackish-brown ; a whitish patch before base of cleft 
surrounded by a more extended area of golden-ferruginous scales ; 
first segment with a small ill-defined patch of lighter scaling at of 
its length and a minute white dot at f ; both subsegments with a 
minute white dot at ^ of their length. Cilia pale-yellow on costa 
with a projecting patch of long black hair-scales at f, black between 
f and apex but tipped with ochreous immediately before apex ; on 
hinder-margin of first segment black with a moderate pale-ochreous 
wisp at h and a narrow pale-ochreous wisp before termen ; on fore- 
