21 i Mr. H. Scott on 



parts being more " bristly " than in the type-form. Thus 

 (i.) the second tergite, instead of having its surface quite 

 bare, has very short scattered bristles in the middle of its 

 disc, covering a roughly triangular area extending forwards 

 from the hind margin ; (ii.) the two ventral chitinous areas 

 (Scott, 1908, op. cit. fig. 4 b) have the stiff erect bristles on 

 their surfaces extending further forwards, instead of only 

 present near their hind margins ; (iii.) the transverse chiti- 

 nous area (op. cit. fig. 4 c) has short erect bristles scattered 

 over its surface, not only present near its hind margin. 

 Variation of a somewhat like nature has been observed in 

 Nycteribia {Listropodia) allotopa, Speiser (see p. 221). 



One of the specimens has a Laboulbeniaeeous fungus 

 growing on its abdomen, to which I have already referred 

 (Arch. Naturg. Ixxix. A, 1913, p. 95). 



Loc. Cliina, Sumatra, Formosa, Ceylon. 



Fryer obtained his two specimens From Mhnopterus 

 schreibcrsi at Peradeniya, x. 1911 and 30. i. 1912. 



2. Penicillidia fletcJuri, sp. n. (PI. X. figs. 1-4.) 



Length circa 25 mm. 



Head bare, except for a few short bristles in the middle of 

 the vertex in front and along the margins of the cheeks. 

 Eyes black-pigmented. Thorax beneath (fig. 4) about 1:^^ 

 times as broad as long, nearly flat (i. e. not convex from 

 front to back as in some species of Penicillidia), with middle 

 line impressed behind ; it has a characteristic fringe of 

 bristles along its hind margin, about four longer ones on 

 either side of the middle line, between each two of which 

 are two or three shorter bristles ; the four longer bristles 

 become gradually longer from the one nearest the middle 

 line to thfi outermost one. Legs apparently without note- 

 worthy characters, not strikingly long ; metatarsus slightly 

 shorter than tibia. 



$ ABDOMEN (PI. X. figs. 1, 2). — Busdl tevgite very small, 

 not reaching to ti»e sides of the abdomen, trapezoidal, its 

 ]>osterior margin shallowly and widely sinuate and without 

 bristles in the middle, on either side with 4 or 5 short stout 

 bristles, its disc Ijearing short bristles towards the sides, 

 almost bare in the middle. Tergites 2-6 with surfaces bare 

 except for some extremely short scattered bristles right at 

 the sides, and which are also scantily present across the disc 

 of tergite 2 near its base ; hii\d margins set with long 

 bristles and short thorn-bristles, 1-3 thorn-bristles between 

 each two Ion"- bristles ; the long bristles are longer in the 



