LIBNOTES. 413 



Described from a unique female in the Indian Museum taken 

 by Dr. Annandale at Kurseong, Dariiling district, 5000 ft. 

 6. ix. 09. 



Both this species and the following one, L. punctipennis, 

 would be associated in Osten Sacken's table with his own species, 

 L. pceciloptera, and with Walker's L, strir/ivena* As only one 

 specimen is present it is impossible to say how far the markings 

 of the wing are constant ; hut judging from my limited expe- 

 rience in the other species, the markings of any particular species 

 appear to vary more in intensity than in pattern. 



301. Libnotes punctipennis, Meij. (PI. VIII, fig. 6.) 



Libnotes punctipennis, Meijere, Tijd. Ent. liv, p. 35 (1911). 



<3 $ . Head with eyes nearly contiguous ; occiput and the 

 very narrow interocular space yellowish grey, the former with a 

 few pale yellow hairs. Proboscis and palpi blackish. Antennal 

 scape black, 1st joint slightly incrassated towards the tip ; flagel- 

 luin yellow, the joints subglobular at the base, becoming much 

 more elongated towards the tip.t Tliorax rather elongated in 

 front, the shoulders considerably depressed. Pale yellowish, with 

 whitish reflections when viewed from certain directions ; with four 

 brown stripes of moderate width on the dorsum : the median 

 pair close together, and joined in front for some distance before 

 reaching the anterior margin ; outer stripes much abbreviated in 

 front, and widely interrupted at the mesonotal suture, reappear- 

 ing beyond it as a pair of elongated spots ; the median stripes 

 not going beyond the suture ; traces of a brownish mark behind 

 each shoulder. Sides of thorax pale yellowish, a narrow brown 

 stripe along the side of the neck reaching to the base of the 

 wing, and a brownish horizontal streak on the pleurae ; scutellum 

 pale yellowish, slightly brownish at sides ; metauotum brownish. 

 Abdomen yellowish brown, with a little pale pubescence ; 1st 

 segment at sides broadly, remaining segments at sides narrowly, 

 and part of the dorsum of some of the segments, dark brown ; 

 belly more or less similar. Ovipositor rather conspicuous, 

 yellowish brown. Leys brownish yellow ; tips of femora slightly 

 thickened, rather broadly dark brown ; tips of tibiae just per- 

 ceptibly darker ; tips of tarsi darker. Wings clear ; venation as 

 in L. notata, Wulp ; the markings somewhat resembling those of 

 L. notatinervis, the veins carrying numerous small pale grey spots, 

 mostly circular or oval ; veins yellow, except on the spots, when 

 they become black. Slight blackish infuscations are placed as 

 follows: at the base of the praefurca; tip of 1st longitudinal, 



* Berl. Ent. Zeits. xxxi, p. 182 (1887). 



t The prolongation of the 12th joint of the flagellum "simulating a 15th 

 joint " according to Osten Sacken, is very distinct, though quite short. 



