58 STNTOMID^. 



64. Trichseta diplaga, n. sp. (Plate II. fig. 9.) 



5 . Black, slightly shot with purple ; abdoraeu greenish. Fore 

 wing with quadrate semihyaline yellow spot below the cell ; a 

 large rounded yellow patch beyond the cell between veins 8 and 2. 



Hah. Penang {Pinivill), 1 $ type. Exp. 30 millim. 



65. Trichseta apicalis. (Plate II. fig. 10.) 



Tipulodes apicalis, Wlk. vii. 1626 (1856) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 98. 

 St/nto7nis biplaqata, Snell. Veth's Midd.-Sum., Lep. p. 33 (1880) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 98. 



Black shot with bright purple ; antennae white at tips. Abdomen 

 greenish. Fore wing with large rounded yeUow patch beyond the 

 cell between veins 8 and 2. 



Hah. Sumatra, 1 2 {Raffles) type, 4 $ {Forhes). Exp. 

 36 millim. 



Subsp. 1. fiaviplaga, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 92 (1862) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 93. 



With the patch beyond the ceU of fore wing oblique and quadrate. 



Hah. Borneo, Sarawak, 2 § {Wallace). Exp. 30-32 millim. 

 Type t in Mus. Oxon. 



B. Antennas of male ciliated. 



a. Hind tibije with the medial spurs absent ; abdomen with lateral tufts 

 of hair. 



66. Trichaeta teneiformis. 



^yntomis teneiformis, Wlk. vii. 1595 (1856) ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 102. 



Black suftused with golden brown ; vertex of head and collar 

 orange ; metathorax and paired dorso-lateral spots on each segment 



of abdomen orange. Fore wing with 

 wedge-shaped hyaline patch in cell ; an 

 elongate patch below the cell and vein 2 ; 

 a postmedial yellowish hyaline spot below 

 the costa and two spots between veins 3 

 ^„ and 5. Hind wing with hyaline patch 



TrichcBtatemiformis,S.\. ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ between bases of 

 (From Moths Ind. vol. i.) ^^ins 2 and 5 extending just into the ceU; 



the base of inner margin yellow. 

 Ab. 1. Fore wing with small spot in end of cell and the spot 

 below the cell reduced ; hind wing with no yellow on inner margin, 

 — Bhutan. 



Hah. Simla {J. Harford); Bhutan {G. C. Dudgeon). Exp. 

 21-22 millim. 



h. Hind tibiae with minute medial pair of spurs ; 

 abdomen smoothly scaled. 

 a^. Abdomen with white basal patch and band on 



5th segment separabilis. 



6^ Abdomen without bands divisura. 



