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margined, with its basal fovea deeply impressed; postscutellum 

 laterally flavidous, with the basal half margined. Abdomen 

 infuscate towards its apex, with the terebral valvulae blaek. Legs 

 ferruginous, with the calcaria rufescent and claws deep black; 

 tibiae and tarsi with dense white pubescence. Wings hyaline, 

 with the stigma flavous and uervures black ; basal riervure not 

 continuous ; areolet sessile. 



Length 13-16 millim. 



KASHMIR, 5000-6000 ft., v. 01 (Col. Nurse); PCJNJAB: Simla, 

 viii. 98 (Col. Nurse), Kangra Valley, 4500 ft., iv.99 (G. G. Dudgeon) ; 

 Kasauli, v. 05 (Col. Bingham); UNITED PROVINCES: Dehra Dun 

 (Ind. Mus.), Sahelwa, Bahraich disfc. (Ind. Mus.), Mussoori, 

 7000 ft., v.0,5 (E. Brunetti), Ghoorn, 7500 ft. (Ind. Mus.); 

 SIKKIM : Darjiling, viii. 09 (C. Paiva Ind. Mus.), Kurseong, 

 5000ft., v. 05 (Ind. Mus.); BHUTAN, viii. 99 (G. C. Dudgeon); 

 ASSAM : Khasi Hills (Rothney), Shillong, v. 03 (Rowland Turner), 

 Ukhrul, Manipur, 6400 ft. (Rev. W. Pettigrewlnd. Mus.); 

 BENGAL: Pusa (ff. M. Lefroy}, Chapra (Mackenzie Pusa coll.), 

 Bajshai, ii. 07 (N. Annandale), Madhupur, x. 09 (Ind. Mus.), 

 Calcutta, i.06 (Brunetti); BOMBAY: Nadiad (Pusa coll.): 

 MADRAS, Slievaroy Hills, 4000 ft. (Pusa coll.); CEYLON: Ohiyai 

 6000 ft., ix.08, and Madulsima, xii. 08 (T. B. Fletcher); 

 TENASSERIM : Dawna Hills, 2000-3000 ft., iii. 08 (N. Annandale). 

 EUROPE. 



The female differs from that of P. longitarsis in its darker colour, 

 blackish antennas and obsoletely trans-strigose metanotum ; 

 P. interstitial? s is distinct in the quite continuous basal nervure 

 and the lack of a metanotal subapical carina, though similar in the 

 colour of the stigma, which is shared only by P. Icevis. I hesitate 

 to state too definitely that Cameron's species is synonymous with 

 P. octllaris, since that species is unknown to me ; nevertheless no 

 doubt can remain that P. ferrugineiis bears exactly the same 

 relation to P. longitarsis, Cam. (=testaceus, Grav.), that Thomson 

 describes his species as possessing to P. testaceus, Holmg., i. e., the 

 coloration is paler, the average size is smaller, the ocelli are large 

 and contiguous to the eyes with their region black, the anus is not 

 infuscate, and the mesonotum is somewhat more nitidulous. The 

 stigma, too, appears to be constantly flavous and not fulvous. I 

 am by no means persuaded that Kokujewis not right in regarding 

 the present as a mere weakly developed variety of P. testaceus, 

 Grav. 



Lefroy has sent me a cocoon of this species ; it is cylindrical 

 and equally obtusely rounded at both extremities, pure glossy 

 white, not strongly shining, with a somewhat irregular black band 

 where it begins to contract around both ends and a few irregular 

 black marks on both apices (similar to that of the familiar 

 Casinaria vidua, Grav.). Its length is 11 millim. and its breadth 

 nearly 5 millim. in the centre. To its apex is affixed an elongate 

 strand, or rather collection of threads, which are still entirely 

 flexible, of 38 millim. in length, and connected with the cocoon 



