520 



half the length of the metatarsus ; claws and pulvilli minute. 

 Wings with areolet distinctly broader than high, subpetiolate and 

 about as broad as the length of the recurrent nervure ; stigraa 

 pale brunneous, with its base broadly, and apex very narrowly, 

 clear hyaline ; basal uervure continuous through the median ; 

 radius regularly curved throughout ; nervellus suboblique, straight 

 and not intercepted. 



Length 4 mill i in. 



SIKKIM : Darjiling, ix. OS (E. Brunctti). 



Type in the Indian Museum. 



The peculiar clarity of the stigma will at once distinguish this 

 species. 



Described from a single female ; but Stebbing has more recently 

 bred a probably conspecih'c. but badly broken, individual from 

 an oak-feeding Lasiocauipid moth at Drobun in the United 

 Provinces. 



Genus EDBISA, Cam. 

 Edrisa, Cauierou, Tijds. Eut. K>07, p. 111. 



GEXOTYPE, E. piticvrnis, Cam. 



Head with the clvpeus not discrete, ocelli not approximating 

 the eyes, temples broad and obliquely constricted, occiput rounded 

 inwardly. Antenna slender and elongate, shortly and densely 

 pilose. Thorax with no notauli, and sternauli extending to centre 

 of mesosternum ; metanotuin regularly areated, with the petiolar 

 area somewhat elongate-triangular and carinately connected with 

 the elongate-cordate areola : spiracles short-oval, about twice as- 

 long as broad. Scutellum circularly convex. Abdomen glabrous 

 and nitidulous : postpetiole subelongate and gradually widened 

 throughout, with the spiracles shortly but distinctly beyond the 

 centre of the excarinate basal segment ; terebra short and broad. 

 Legs with the tibia? spinose, and tarsal claws small and simple.. 

 Areolet large and irregularly pentagonal, rhoraboidal and distinctly 

 narrowed in front, emitting the recurrent nervure at the apex of 

 its basal third ; basal nervure subcontinuous through the median ; 

 stigma gradually broadening towards the radial nervure, which is 

 emitted near its apex ; nervellus entire ; radial cell elongate, 

 narrow, extending to near apex of wing. 



Range. Sikkim. 



Its author says that this genus may be known from Jfaoetonct, 

 Grav., by the longer and narrowed radial cell and stigraa, by the 

 completely areated metanotuin, with its subelongate and not 

 circular spiracles. The h'rst of these characters is hardly generic, 

 the second is entirely shared with Mesochorus, and Holmgren says- 

 the spiracles are sometimes subovate in the latter; I have not 

 seen this genus and much doubt its distinction from Mesocliorus 

 as restricted by Thomson, since the shape of the areolet seem* 

 the only distinctive point. 



