G4 Mr. H. Champion on 



setoe, 4 on each side; lateral setae, 4 on riglit and 3 on left. 

 Antennae 3 mm. long, carrying a few fine hairs; the two 

 basal joints dark reddish brown, swollen, the second larger 

 than the first ; joints 3-7 light brown ; tlie third joint 

 longer than the fonrth and fifth taken together. A con- 

 spicnous, dark reddish-brown plate, with a semi-circular 

 anterior border, fringed with coarse yellow hairs, projecting 

 forward from the frons, between the antennae. Eyes pale 

 brown, rather prominent (considerably larger than in 

 S.eustalacta). Greatest width of head 7 ram. The occiput 

 ornamented with a well-marked bilaterally symmetrical 

 pattern, altogether more complex than that figured by 

 Tillyard for S. eustalacta, composed of dark reddish-brown 

 markings upon a light brown surface. 



Prothorax short and broad ; each lateral margin carrying 

 a tuft of long hairs. Wing-cases 8'5 mm. long, light brown, 

 flat, smooth, strongly divergent, reaching backwards to 

 about the level of the middle of the fifth abdominal segment. 

 Legs moderately robust, dark reddish brown. 



Abdomen 16 mm. long ; unicolorous dark reddish brown ; 

 elongate-oval ; well-arched above ; nearly flat below ; 

 smooth, except for a few hairs on the lateral margins of the 

 more anterior segments; segments 2-9 with a postei'o- 

 lateral spine on each side, curved and rather large on the 

 three more proximal segments, straighter and smaller on 

 the five more distal segments. The two lateral anal append- 

 ages but slightly curved, the other three more decidedly so. 



Metaphya elongata, sp. n, 



1 $ (holotype), Raie Ngo, 10. ii. 14 (204). 



In studying this insect I have had before me the unique 

 male and female of Metaphya micans, Laidlaw, the type of 

 the genus, from Borneo *, and the description and figures of 

 M. tillyardi, Ris, ? , from New Guinea f. It agrees with 

 the genotype in the following characters : — Absence of 

 cross-veins in the median space, the cubital space (apart 

 from the anal crossing), the triangles, and the subtriangle of 

 the fore wing ; small pterostigma ; fore wing with discoidal 

 area beginning with one row of cells, and with M4 and Cuj 

 diverging towards the margin of the wing; coincidence with 

 the arculus of the proximal side of the hind-wing triangle ; 

 elongated anal loop, divided longitudinally and cut off" 



* Sarawak Mus. Journ. i. no. 2 (1912), c? ; Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1913, p. 65, $ . 

 t Nova Guinea, ix., Zool. p. 497 (1913). 



