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entirely black. Prothorax broader tban long, anterior and posterior 

 margins straight, anterior as broad as the head, posterior double 

 that breadth, lateral margins sloped diagonally from the anterior 

 margin half way to the posterior, but, as regards their posterior 

 half, straight and parallel ; pronotum impressed with wide irre- 

 gular fovea? ; meso- and metathorax uniform in breadth with the 

 base of the prothorax. Abdomen very long, gradually tapering to 

 an acute point, which is armed with a few bristles : the thoracic 

 segments and abdomen arc black and shining. Wings nearly 

 transparent, but with a slightly smoky tinge ; at the base they 

 have a median ray, which seems almost immediately to divide, 

 and to be lost in the costal and posterior margins, which are fringed 

 with long silky black hairs. Legs rather short; femora very 

 slightly incrassated externally, black and shining ; tibi<'JD bright 

 yellow; tarsi 2-jointed, basal joint moderately long, the apical 

 joint short, obtuse, brown. 



Huh. Mysore; feeds on the leaves of a species of Anacardium. 



Genus Piil/eotiikips, ITaliday, 1. c. 



Cajmt oblongum, depressum. Antcnnce graciles, S-articulatac, 

 thoracis iatitudinem perpaullum superantes. Labipalpl ovati. 

 Ocelli tres, ecquidistantes. Prothorax foveolatus. Alec antica; 

 vena unica nonnisi inchoata, vel abbreviatoc aut nullic. Ab- 

 domen lateribus muticum. 



The characters are chiefly from the Museum Catalogue. 



Sp. 1. P/ilceot/irips Anacnrdii, Newman. 



Nigerriina, glaberrima ; capite paullum elongato, cylindraceo, 

 ])iceo ; antennis gracilibus, stramineis, basi apiceque nigris ; 

 abdomine vix elongato, lateribus rectis, fere ad apicem paral- 

 lelis, tunc obliquis, in segmento apicali brevi, cylindraceo, 

 desiuientibus ; alis diaphanis, eradiis, fusco-ciliatis ; femoribus 

 perpaullum incrassatis ; tarsis stramineis. 

 Corp. long. '175 unc. Alar, dilat. '\5 unc. 

 Head more than twice as long as broad, cylindrical, pitchy black, 

 having at its anterior extremity two very conspicuous bright ocelli 

 seated between the large lateral, oblong, compound eyes: antennae- 

 very slender, 8-jointed, the first and second joints robust, and dis- 

 tinctly restricted at the base, incrassated at the apex, the apex of 

 the second yellow ; third extremely slender, twite as long as the 

 secijud, and pale straw-coloured ; fourth, fifth and sixth of e(jual 



