G4 Mr. H. (yampion on 



setpe, 4< on each side; lateral setse, 4 on right and 3 on left. 

 Antennse 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 ; the third joint 

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

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

 anterior border, fringed with coarse yellow hairs, projecting 

 forward from the frons, between the antennte. 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 

 ])attern, altogether more complex than that figured by 

 Tillyard for <S^. eustalada, 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 al)dominal 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 Avith a postero- 

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

 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), Baie Ngo, 10. ii. 14 (204). 



In studying this insect I have had before me the unique 

 male and female of Aletaphya niicans, Laidlaw, the type of 

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

 Al. 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 pterostigraa ; fore wing with discoidal 

 ai'ea beginning with one row of cells, and with M4 and Cm, 

 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. G5, $. 

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



