346 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



FOUR NEW PTEEOPHOEIDiE. 

 By T. Bainbrigge Fletcher, R.N., F.E.S., F.Z.S. 



(Published with the Sanction of the Inspector-General of Agriculture in India.) 

 (Continued from p. 283.) 



Oxi/ptilus umllacei, n. s. 

 $ ?. Exp. 15 mm. Palpi upturned, long, thin, acuminate, sickle- 

 shaped, projecting length of head heyond it, second joint much longer 

 than diameter of eye, third slightly shorter than second ; dark red- 

 dish-brown, whitish at joints and beneath. Antennte dark ferru- 

 ginous, spotted with white. Head dark ferruginous ; a few erect 

 scales on back of vertex. Thorax ferruginous-yellow, black anteriorly 

 and posteriorly. Abdomen long, stout, bright golden orange ; some 

 whitish-ochreous suffusion on sides at base, third segment with a 

 transverse apical black bar across dorsal area, sixth segment blackish 

 apically, seventh and succeeding segments blackish ; a pair of long, 

 narrow, parallel ochreous-brown anal hair-pencils. Legs bright 

 golden orange ; posterior tibia slightly dilated, with short blackish 

 spines at one-half and apex, and emitting pairs of long blackish 

 spurs, of which the inner are the longer ; posterior tarsi lined above 

 with black, except in middle of first tarsal joint. Fore wing rather 

 broad, cleft from beyond two-thirds (within three-quarters), both 

 segments slightly dilated posteriorly ; first segment subparallel- 

 sided, both angles well-marked, termen shghtly oblique ; second 

 segment as broad basally as first, slightly dilated posteriorly, tornus 

 well-marked, termen oblique, concave, anterior angle rather produced. 

 Colour black ; costa dotted with white on its middle third ; patches 

 of bright ferruginous-orange as follows : (i) a few small ill-defined basal 

 patches ; (ii) an elongate discal patch between about one-fourth and 

 one-half, enclosing a small black spot, not reaching costa, and only 

 reaching dorsum at base of patch ; (iii) an inwardly oblique bar from 

 costa at three-fourths, extending over basal half of first segment, 

 around base of cleft, and into basal half of second segment, becoming 

 obsolete towards dorsum ; first segment crossed at two-thirds of its 

 length by a narrow white inwardly obHque line parallel to termen, 

 and with a few white dots on hinder margin on basal half of seg- 

 ment ; second segment cut beyond one-half of its length by a 

 narrow white inwardly oblique line. Cilia on costa black, except 

 opposite outer orange patch and transverse line, where they are 

 ochreous-whitish, on termen of first segment whitish, black around 

 both angles, within cleft whitish on basal three-fifths, black on 

 terminal two-fifths of segments, on termen of second segment 

 whitish, black at base, very narrowly so in centre of termen, broadly 

 so around angles, on dorsum whitish, with small black scale-teeth at 

 beyond one-half, about two-thirds (rather wnthin a line drawm from 

 base of cleft), and five-sixths (exactly below transverse white line), 

 blackish, and gradually decreasing in length between last scale-tooth 

 and tornus. Hind wing cleft from about two-fifths and from near 

 base, segments linear, third segment about one-half length of first ; 

 bright golden orange, first two segments blackish beyond one-fourth. 



