552 BHYPIIIDJE. 



5. Costa darker, towards tip of wing 

 showing distinctly a quite clear 

 square spot, only descending to the 

 3rd longitudinal vein, with a smaller 

 contiguous spot below ; a distinct, 

 narrow brown streak beyond pos- 

 terior cross-vein ; distal part of wing 

 below 3rd longitudinal nearly clear, 

 with posterior veins very lightly 



suffused distinctus, 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 individually 

 suffused divmts, Brun., p. 557. 



401. Rhyphus maculipennis, Wulp. (PI. XII. fig. 1.) 



Rhyphus maculipennis, van der "Wulp, Notes Leyd. Mus. vii, p. 14 

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

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



c? $ . Head brownish yellow ; ocellar triangle dark brown ; a 

 narrow line extending from it nearly to the base of the antennae. 

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

 below ; a small brown spot on the face between the base of the 

 antennae and the eye-margin. Antennae vari-colourecl ; scape 

 and basal half of flagellurn brownish yellow, more or less marked 

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

 blackish, 9th and 10th pale yellowish white, llth 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 same as the upperside. Leys yellowish ; tips of 

 femora and tibi*, 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 bauds 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 



