from the Oriental Zoological Region. 20 



the cubital ; the Bppcndiculate cellule is Idd^; the pedicle is 

 bullateil ; the t'ornj ot" the third traiisver.se cubital cellule i.s as 

 ill Xotogonia, not as in Ptilarus, the thinl transverse cubital 

 Tiervurc beinp^ parallel witii the second, the third cubital cellule 

 not bein<; broader at the top than at the bottom. The head 

 appears longer than usual and is wiiler than the mesothorax. 



Ccptwlarrn oppendiculata , sp. n. 



Nigra ; fronte facicijuo dense arj^eiiteo ])ilosi.s : pro- mesonotoque 



aureo pilosis; alis hyidiuis, apicf t'liiii iti^. nervis fuscis. J. 

 Long. 6-7 mm. 



JIab. Barrackpore {Hothney). (Joll. llothney. 



Scape ot antennje shining, the lower side covc'red with 

 microscopic silvery pubescence; the flagelluin opaque, overed 

 with a white down. Vertex alutaceous ; the front thickly 

 covered with silvery pubescence; the middle furrowed and 

 closely transversely striated ; there is a wide and deep furrow 

 in front of the ocellus, which is triangularly produced in 

 front. The face and oral region are tliiekly covered with 

 silvery pubescence, as arc also the mandibles broadly at the 

 base. Palpi black, thickly covered with white pubescence. 

 Thorax alutaceous ; the pro- and mesonotum thickly covered 

 with a short golden pile, as is also the basal part of tlie median 

 segment on the base and sides ; the apical j)art is widely 

 furroweil in the middle and is transversely striated j the sides 

 are thickly covered with silvery and golden pubescence. 

 Pleuiai alutaceous, thickly covered with silvery pubescence. 

 The prosternuin is stoutly keeled down the middle ; its apex 

 has an oblique slope and is hollowed; the mesosternuin is 

 keeled down the middle ; the metasternal process is wide, 

 large; the basal half much more deeply depressed than the 

 apical, whose lobes are somewhat triangular. Legs thickly 

 pruinose; the tibial and tarsal spines are dark rufo-testaceous. 

 Tegulaj rufous behind, pruinose. Wings hyaline, the apex 

 from the end of the radial cellule smoky ; the second recurrent 

 nervuie is elbowed backwards distinctly in the middle and is 

 received shortly behind the middle of the cellule. Abdomen 

 pruinose. 



Leptolauua, gen. nov. 



'larsi unusually long, the hinder twice the length of the 

 tibial ; the middle joints narrowed at the base, dilated towards 

 the a[)ex ; the claws long and armed with a short tooth near 

 the base. Front and vertex with depressions as in Xoto- 

 goniuj &c. ; there is only one ocellus ; eyes large, converging 



