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entirely and the hind ones beneath flavous; trochanters red or 

 flavous, with the hind ones, and sometimes also the anterior, partly 

 black ; hind tarsi and apices of tibiae infuscate. Wings iridescent 

 and subhyaline ; stigma and radius testaceo-stramineous, radix 

 and tegula? whitish ; areolet irregularly triangular or oblique, 

 petiolate or subpetiolate ; nervellus not intercepted above the 

 lower fourth, often almost at the lower angle, but a little higher 

 in d. 



Length b'-7 millim. 



SIKKIM : Darjiling, GOOO ft., x. 05 (E. Brunetti). 



Type in the Breslau Museum. 



This common European species, which is known to prey upon 

 Noctuids, Geometrids, and Platypteryx, evidently has an un- 

 expected eastern distribution. Brunetti's broken specimen is in 

 the Calcutta Museum. 



152. Phytodiaetus capuae, sp. n. 



<S $ . A black, brightly flavous-marked species. Head narrowed 

 behind the eyes and the mouth, cheeks, face and frontal orbits to 

 vertex, flavous ; mandibles apically and a fascia before the clypeus 

 black. Antenna' very slender and distinctly longer than the body ; 

 scape black, and in d 1 flavous beneath ; flagellum entirely black. 

 Thorax black, with the pronotum, propleurse basally, hamate marks 

 before the radix, two large callosities beneath it, a circular mark 

 on disc of rnesonotum, the lateral sutures and most of apical half 

 of metathorax, with spots above the posterior coxa?, flavous ; 

 J with mesopleurae entirely flavous below. Scutellum, post- 

 scutellum and both freni bright flavous, with no central black 

 mark. Abdomen a little longer than head and thorax, and in tf 

 slightly narrower than the latter; all the segments with bright 

 glaucous-flavous margins ; basal segment hardly half as long again 

 as broad at its apex, subparallel-sided and distinctly explanate on 

 either side at its base, <$ spiracles strongly prominent ; second 

 segment longer than broad and the following transverse, all 

 nitidulous and obsoletely shagreened, with short close recumbent 

 golden pubescence ; J \ alvulae exserted ; abdomen 3 millim., terebra 

 2 millim. Legs pale fulvous and distinctly elongate, with the coxae 

 and trochanters stramineous and only the hind cox broadly black- 

 marked beneath ; hind tarsi and most of their tibiae blackish, the 

 latter basally ferruginous. Wings iridescent and not clouded ; 

 stigma and radius testaceous, radix and tegulae stramineous ; 

 areolet acutely triangular and subpetiolate, emitting the recurrent 

 nervure only just before its apex ; nervellus intercepted at its 

 lower third. 



Length 6-8 millim. 



CETLOX : Pundaluoya (E. E. Green). 



Type in the author* s collection. 



This species is probably most closely allied to P. polyzonias, 

 Forst., from which, besides its verv distinctive coloration, it differs 



