PSEUDOPONTIA. 77 



terminal joint pointed. Eyes large, semi-circular ; proboscis 

 spiral ; eyes rounded, very large ; tibiae not spurred ; claws 

 bifid. Body very short and slender. Wings rounded, with 

 very short cells; anterior wings with the costal nervure long, 

 extending nearly to the tip ; the first and second sub-costal 

 nervules strongly arched forwards, the second springing from 

 the end of the cell, the third throwing off two discoidal ner- 

 vules, one at a little more than a quarter, the other about half 

 the distance between the discoidal cell and the hind margin ; 

 the lowest sub-median nervule and the sub-median nervure 

 approximate, but do not touch. The hind-wings have a pre- 

 discoidal cell, and instead of a regularly-formed costal and 

 sub-costal nervure, the discoidal cell is slightly angulated up- 

 wards at two-thirds of its length, and here throws off a nervure 

 running obliquely upwards, and then turning outwards towards 

 the hind margin just below the tip. From the angulated ex- 

 tremity of the pre-costal cell another nervure is thrown off, 

 which curves downwards, crossing the first, and running into 

 the hind margin below it. At a quarter of the distance between 

 the cell and the hind margin, the discoidal nervules diverge from 

 a common stalk. The lower median nervule is angulated down- 

 wards towards the upper sub-median nervure, which is nearly 

 straight ; the lower sub-median nervure is much shorter, and 

 strongly arched downwards. 



Nothing appears to have been recorded of the habits or 

 transformations of this singular insect, for which I have ven- 

 tured to erect a new Family, Pseudopontiidce. But one genus 

 and species are known. 



GENUS PSEUDOPONTIA. 



Globiceps^ Felder, Petites Nouvelles Entomologiques, i. p. 30 

 (,869). 



