^°^ MR. R. M'LACHLAN ON THE 



E. PERSiCA, sp. n. Nigra subnitida. Caput vix in medio 

 piceo tinctum. Pronotum briiuneum. Antennae nigrse, basin 

 versus pallido cinctsB, 24-articnlat8e ; articulis duobus ultimis fla- 

 vidis. Alae angustae, fuliginosse, albido 5-striatae ; venis fuscis. 

 Long. Corp. circa 9g-10| millim. Exp. alar. 13|-15 millim. 



Ilah. Persia septentrionalis. 



Black. Head somewhat shining, sparingly clotted with greyish 

 hairs ; in form broad, subquadrate, almost truncate posteriorly, 

 with the hinder angles rounded ; on the middle of the disk is a 

 large, nearly circular depression tinged with piceous. Maxillary 

 palpi having the 1st joint longer than the 2nd and 3rd, the 4th 

 and 5th very stout, the 5th obtusely oval, scarcely longer than 

 the 1st. Labial palpi very short and stout, the terminal point 

 very obtuse. Mentum small, transversely subquadrate with 

 straight sides and truncate anterior margin. Antennte scarcely 

 longer than the head and pronotum, 24-jointed ; basal joint short 

 and thick, 2nd, 4th, and 5th scarcely longer than broad, the 

 3rd somewhat longer (the 2nd to 6th each with a narrow yel- 

 lowish ring at the apex); afterwards they become longer, but 

 scarcely one half longer than broad ; the terminal two joints 

 dingy yellowish ; otherwise the colour is black, clothed with 

 greyish hairs. Mandibles testaceous. Pronotum short, consi- 

 derably narrowed anteriorly, with a transverse impressed line ; 

 colour brown, clothed with greyish hairs : prosternum distinctly 

 pale yellow. Meso- and metanota shining black, the former ob- 

 long, the latter nearly quadrate. Legs dark piceous, clothed with 

 greyish hairs. Abdomen blackish piceous, paler beneath, clothed 

 with yellowish-grey hairs ; caudal appendages short, the second 

 joint brownish, clothed with yellowish hairs. "Wings narrow, 

 dark fuliginous; neuration fuscescent, the space between the 

 subcosta and radius dark fuscous ; and these veins are somewhat 

 vinous in colour, and the radius is narrowly margined with 

 whitish on its lower edge ; five narrow whitish longitudinal lines : 

 discoidal cell very long, closed, and then an additional trans- 

 verse nervule in its area nearer the apex ; two or three transverse 

 nervules between the radius and upper branch of the sector, and 

 one between the lower branch of the sector and the cubitus. 



I have three examples (all $ ?) from Shahrud, North Persia, 

 collected by Herr Christoph. 



U. Solieri, Eambur (from the south of Europe), of which, I 

 think, only the larval form has been observed, appears to have 



