458 ICIINEVMOXIDJE. 



348. Campoplex lapponicus, ffolmy. (Plate I, fig. 9.) 



Campoplex lapponicus, Holmgren, Sv. Ak. Handl. 1858, p. 37 ; 

 Foreter, Verh. z.-b. Ges. 1868, p. 872; Holmgren, Bih. Sv. 

 V.-A. Handl. 1872, p. 1 ; cf. Thomson, Opusc. Ent. xi, p. 1073, 

 et Briechke, Schr. Nat. Ges. Dauz. 1891, p. 65 (<$ $). 

 Campoplex cnllizonus, Forster, Verb. z.-b. Ges. 1868, p. H03 ($ X 

 Campoplex yreeni, Cameron, Spolia Zeylnnica, 190o, p. 127 ($). 



c? $ . A black species, with the centre of the abdomen and part 

 of the legs rufescent. Head very little constricted posteriorly, 

 closely punctate and witli dense silvery pubescence ; frons not 

 impressed, scrobes simple ; mandibles ferruginous throughout, 

 and basally with white pubescence ; palpi dark testaceoiis. 

 Antennas immaculate. Thorax distinctly and closely punctate, 

 with dense silvery pubescence; on the base of the inetanotum 

 are two roundly curved keels, forming two arese, which are as 

 long as wide ; the centre is depressed and transversely striated 

 closely' above, more widely and broadly below ; pleura? less closely 

 punctate than mesouotum, propleurae sinuately and obliquely 

 striate centrally and below, central apical impression of meso- 

 pleura; closely and regularly striate. Abdomen black, with the 

 third to fifth segments alone bright red ; terebra exserted. Legs 

 black, witli the front tarsi, tibiae, and apices of their femora, testa- 

 ceous ; intermediate femora near apices, and often their tibiae more 

 broadlv basally, testaceous; calcaria concolorous. Wings hyaline, 

 with the stigma infuscate and the nervures black ; areolet tri- 

 angular and shortly petiolate, emitting the recurrent nervure 

 before its centre ; nervellus geniculate below its centre ; basal 

 abscissa of radius half as long again as the recurrent nervure. 



Length 9-12 milliin. 



N.W. FRONTIER PROVINCE : Peshawur (Copt. E. Y. Watson) ; 

 PCNJAB : Simla and Kasauli, v. 08 (N. Annandale) ; UNITED 

 PROVINCES: Mussoori, vi. 04 (E. Brunetti Ind. Mus.) ; SIKKIM : 

 Darjiling, x. 05 (E. Bmnetti Ind. Mus.) ; CEYLON : Pundaluoyu 

 and Hatton, ii. (E. E. Green). 



Type in the Stockholm Museum. 



Bridginan (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 420) records this species 

 us having been bred in England from the Geometrid moth, 

 Melanippe hastata ; he describes its cocoons as " palish brown, 

 sometimes ashy and uniform in tint"; and remarks upon the 

 distinctness of the species, the terebra of which is about as long 

 aa the basal segment. I possess one of his bred specimens. 



349. Campoplex prytanes, Cam. 

 ampoplex 

 ($) 



$ . Head black, with the mandibles (except basally) and the 

 palpi testaceous ; face closely, and the clypeus a little more 



