OPHIONIN^. 343 



second broader, though hardly shorter, and slightly widened 

 apically ; ventral fold strong on the three pale basal segments ; 

 spicula dark, valvulae flavescent, slightly exserted from the hypo- 

 pygium, which extends to the anus. Legs elongate and very 

 slender, the anterior testaceous, with the coxae and trochanters 

 stramineous ; hind legs red, with the large and strongly trans- 

 strigose coxae black, trochanters pale and the hind tarsi white, 

 except the basal and apical half of the last joint, which are, like 

 the apices of their tibia?, blackish. Wings narrow but not small ; 

 stigma, costa and nervures piceous ; radix and tegulae stramineous ; 

 basal nervure not quite continuous ; second recurrent broadly 

 bifenestrate. 



Length 8| millim. 



PUNJAB: Simla, viii. 98 (Col. Nurse). 



Type in Col. Nurse's collection. 



The foregoing description is drawn from the type of the 

 species. 



Subfamily OPHIONIN^E. 



The number of species of this subfamily that have been de- 

 scribed or recorded from Asia, outside British India, is probably 

 about equal to the forty-three kinds given by Dalla Torre as 

 indigenous to this area in 1901. The principal 'authors of the 

 former are Kokujew, who has erected several species of Paniscus 

 from Eussian Transcaucasia, Pamir, Siberia and Transcaspia 

 (Hor Soc. entom. Ross. 1899, p. 142, etc.) ; Brulle and Taschen- 

 berg (Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1875, p. 421), who have described a few 

 large species from Halmaheira, Java, etc. ; Van A 7 ollenhoven 

 also described some conspicuous insects from Batavia ; Smith 

 brought forward a few from Chinese Turkestan and others 

 from Japan (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1874, and Second Yarkand 

 Mission). And from the latter locality, Francis Walker de- 

 scribed (Cistula Entom. 1874, p. 306, etc.) new kinds of Sagaritis, 

 Campoplex and Cliarops ; while an Anomalid is recorded by 

 Kriechbaumer (Nat. Ges. Leipzig, 1894, p. 129). Smith has 

 further informed us of others from Celebes, Borneo, Kaisaa, etc. 

 (Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond, 1860, Suppl. p. 64) ; Holmgren found a 

 new Limnerium from China (Eugenics Resa, Insect. 1868, p. 412), 

 and Radoszkowsky an undescribed OpJiion from Korea (Horae 

 Soc. ent. Ross. 1887, p. 433). This, with the addition of a very 

 few species brought forward by Olivier, Tschek and others from 

 Asia Minor, represents practically the total of our knowledge up 

 to the beginning of the present century. 



To the above forty-three species Cameron has subsequently 

 added some sixty kinds, in publishing the captures of Col. Nurse 

 in North-West India and of Mr. Green in Ceylon. These were 



