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more than twice longer than the fourth. Antenna? long-, slender. Pro- 

 thorax slightly saddle-shaped ; the two transverse furrows very slight ; 

 fore border very slightly excavated ; hind border slightly rounded. Hind 

 border of the metathorax conical. Oviduct much curved upward, very 

 minutely serrated above, shorter than the abdomen. Legs moderately long* 

 and slender; femora punctured, with one row of minute spines beneath ; 

 hind femora incrassated for half the length from the base ; four anterior 

 tibia3 with two rows of minute spines ; hind tibiae with four rows. Wings 

 long. Fore wings rather narrow, obliquely truncated at the tips, shorter by 

 one line than the hind wings. Hind wings with a reticulated patch along 

 the apical part of the costa. 



1. ZULPHA FERLABIA. 



Phaneroptera perlaria, Weslw. Orient. Ent. pi. 14, f. 1. 

 Hindostan. Prince of Wales' Isle. 



Genus 119. MOLPA. 



Mas etfam. Corpus grucile, laeve. Caput produclum ; vertex antice 

 lanceolatus; frons angusta, perobliqua, fere plana, inter antennas lanceo- 

 lata. Oculi fere rotundi, valde promiuuli. Palpi maxillares graciles; 

 articulus 5us subclavatus, 4o plus triplo longior. Antenna? gracillimae ; 

 articuli lus et *2us validi ; tus longissimus; 2us brevis. Prothorax 

 sellatus; discus planus, posiice latescens ; margo anticus vix concavus ; 

 latera subaugulata; margo posticus subrotundalus. Mesosternum et mela- 

 sieruum subincisa. Abdomen subcariuatum. Pedes longi, gracillimi, 

 spinulosi; femora postica basin versus incrassata ; libite postica basi arti- 

 eulatae ; tarsi brevissimi. Alas anticae angustae, apice rotundalaj, cosla 

 perparum rotundata, margine interiore fere recto. Alse postica? paullo 

 longiores, apice reliculata?. Mas. Lamina supra-analis lata. Cerci 

 incurvi, apice incrassati et furcati. Lamina subgenitalis gracilis, longis- 

 sima, apice furcata. Fcem. Oviductus brevissimus, supra serralus. 



Male and female. Body slender, smooth. Head elongate, as broad 

 as the fore border of the prothorax ; vertex lanceolate in front or with a 

 short porrect horn which is broader than the first joint of the antennae ; 

 front narrow, nearly flat, very oblique, lanceolate between the sockets of the 

 antennae. Eyes nearly round, very prominent. Palpi slender; fourth 

 joint of the maxillary about half the length of the third and less than one- 

 third of the length of the fifth, which is subclavate. Antenna? very slender ; 

 first and second joints stout ; first very long ; second short. Prothorax 

 somewhat saddle-shaped ; disk flat and widening in the hinder part ; a 

 slight longitudinal impressed line and two broader transverse abbreviated 

 impressed lines, of which the fore one is interrupted and the hind one is 

 angular: fore border hardly excavated ; lateral lobes slightly angular; hind 

 border slightly rounded. Mesosternum and metasternum slightly notched. 

 Abdomen slightly keeled. Legs long, very slender, with very minute 

 spines; hiud femora full two-thirds of the length of the fore wings;- 

 hind tibia? jointed at the base, with four rows of spines; tarsi very 

 short. Fore wings narrow, minutely reticulated, rounded at the tips, 

 a little shorter than the hind wings; costa very slightly rounded; 



