Prof. M. Bezzi on Indian PyigotintB. 159 



distinctly retreating, the antoniuil "looves ending at some 

 distance above tiie moutli-cdge ; tiie jouls below and tlie 

 peristoma are comparatively narrow, about lialf as broad as 

 in the figure ot Za^eoZa by flondel (p. 81, fig. 2). The an- 

 tennae are comparatively short, wholly yellow, the third joint 

 as long as the second and bearing a bare arista inserted 

 towards its middle. The tnacrociiietai are very tliin and 

 short ; the frons bears only a few short hairs. Palpi long, 

 but not broad, yellow, and yellow-haired ; prol)oscis yellow. 



Thorax and scutellum entirely of a pale yellow colour, 

 without any dark spot on the pleurae or on the mesophragma ; 

 the hairs on the back and on the sides and the very thin 

 niacrocliH^tte are yellow. Scutellum bare, with six marginal 

 inaerocha'tai. Squamulffi and halteres yellow. 



Abdomen yellow, but dorsally more daikened than the 

 thorax ; first segment cylindrical, a little constricted towards 

 the middle, almost twice as long as the following segments 

 together; ovipositor yellow, very strongly shining, with a 

 few short hairs, arched ventrally, as long as the abdomen, 

 82 mm. 



Legs with the coxce entirely of a pale yellow colour; they 

 are clothed with short hniis and lack all the longer bristles; 

 front femora below with two rows of short bristly hairs, 

 which are of a rather dark colour; on the dorsal surface 

 they are very short, pilose. In the allied Indian species, 

 vufpina, Hend., the legs are much moie ])ilo3e. 



Wings very broad and long, greyish hyaline, without any 

 distinct pattern or any iiifuscation on the cross-veins ; the 

 veins are yellow ; stump of the second longitudinal vein very 

 long ; third vein ending exactly at the apex of the wing, the 

 distance of the second vein fr^m it being only a little greater 

 than tliat of the fourth ; co^ta very thin after the third vein ; 

 hind cross-vein as long as its distance from the small one 

 wholly straight; inferior angle of discal cell less acute; 

 anal vein extended to the hind border. 



6. Adapsilia nocturna, sp. n., ^ . 



Length of body 12 mm., of a wing 13 mm.; breadth of 

 a wing 4:*5 mm. 



Type in the British Museum ; a single specimen from 

 Kumaon, near Bhowali, 5700 ft., 18tli June, 1910, caught at 

 light (/Vo/. A. J). Imws). 



The present sjjecies seems to be allied to armipes, Hend., 

 from Sikkini, which, however, is black-haired and has black 



