160 



narrowly brownish yellow ; venter dull aeneous, with short whitish 

 pubescence ; geuitalia concealed, somewhat yellowish. Legs black- 

 ish with short grey pubescence ; femora black, extreme base and 

 nearly the apical halt' yellow ; rest of legs wholly yellow ; ail legs 

 with very short inconspicuous pale pubescence ; the three yellow 

 pulvilli and the black claws distinct. Wings yellowish grey, 

 considerably iridescent and rippled ; veins in anterior part of 

 wing black and distinct, the remainder yellowish and less distinct. 

 Thoracic squamae enormous, grey, with short greyish pubescence 

 on disc arid edge, sufficiently transparent for the brownish-yellow 

 halteres concealed below them to be seen. 



Described from a perfect unique from Dungagali, 8000 ft., 

 Hazara District, 21-22. v. 1915 (T. B. Fletcher). 



Type sent to British Museum. 



Subfamily PANOPIN^E. 



Little can be added to the characters given in the table. The 

 basal and discal cells are generally well defined. 



Genus PIALEA, EricJis. 

 Pialea, Erichson, Entomographica, i, p. 160 (1840). 



GENOTYPE, Pialea lomata, Erichs. ; by original designation. 



Body of the normal Cyrtid type. Head very small, mostly 

 occupied by the densely pubescent, contiguous eyes ; occiput 

 flattened, three ocelli ; proboscis very short, no obvious palpi. 

 Antennae deflected, placed on the underside of a distinct tubercle 

 in the middle of face between the eyes ; 1st and 2nd joints short, 

 bristly, 3rd very large, elongate, leaf-shaped with obtuse tip, much 

 longer than two basal joints together. Thoracic squamae enor- 

 mously developed. Abdomen thick, oblong, conical, longer than 

 thorax, densely pubescent, 6-segmented. Legs of normal Cyrtid 

 type, tibiae ending in a small blunt tooth-like projection on inner 

 aide. Wings of moderate size, slightly elongate ; costa ending at 

 tip of lower branch of 3rd vein, immediately before wing-tip ; 

 auxiliary vein ends at from two-thirds of wing (aurifrila) to nearly 

 end of wing (lutescens) ; 1st longitudinal vein very long; 2nd 

 begins at one-fourth of the wing, straight or gently curved towards 

 tip, ending just beyond 1st; 3rd begins very near origin of 2nd, 

 widely forked towards tip, nearly straight, with lower branch 

 ending below wing-tip (lutescens), or bent upwards, both branches 

 ending before wing-tip (aurtpt&s); anterior cross-vein very near 

 origin of 3rd vein, at basal end of the elongate discal cell; 4th 

 vein with apparently both branches forked, upper prong of upper 

 branch closing the 1st posterior cell and giving the appearance of 

 another discal cell in front of and parallel with the true one. In 

 lutescens upper prong of lower branch throwing off a veiulet 



