152 NEMESTRINID.E. 



closely contiguous, so that, only a very small irons remains, which 

 latter is clothed with yellow ochre and dark brown hairs inter- 

 mixed. Antennae brownish ; eye-margins bent, reaching to base 

 of antennae. Legs wholty yellow ochre. Wings yellowish grey, 

 fore border yellow ochre. 



Length, 18mm. 



Described by Lichtwardt from a single <$ from the Tau Plateau, 

 Burma, 4000 ft., ii. 1890 {Col. C. T. Bingham). 



Type in the British Museum. 



118. Hirmoneura austeni, Licht. 



Hirmoneura austeni, Lichtwardt, Deut. Ent. Zeits. p. 643, S (1909). 



S • A large robust species. Body deep dark brown, evenly 

 clothed with long, erect, woolly, pale brown pubescence, which is 

 thicker on the sides of the thorax and abdomen, where in certain 

 lights it has a kind of bronze tinge. Head semicircular; eyes 

 closely hairy ; frons broad, forming one-sixth the width of the 

 head with dense deep black pubescence ; epistome a little broader, 

 black, with concolorous pubescence ; a few light brown hairs only 

 about the mouth-opening and around the short proboscis ; antennae 

 and palpi black ; the latter curving upwards, lying close along the 

 eye-margins and reaching to base of antennae. Lower surface of 

 head and sternum with yellowish hair; venter with yellowish 

 pubescence ; the extreme base of abdomen with a narrow band of 

 deep black hairs. Legs stout, reddish yellow; anterior femora 

 brownish, with dense pale pubescence, which makes them appear 

 even thicker. Wings brown, anteriorly darker. 



Length, 18-20 mm. 



Described by Lichtwardt from five 3 6 in the British Museum 

 from the Khasi Hills, Assam. 



119. Hirmoneura coffeata, Licht. 



Hirmoneura coffeata, Lichtwardt, Deut. Ent. Zeits. p. 644, $ (1909). 



? . A large species with coffee-brown body, rather bare, with 

 some pale brown pubescence only on sides of thorax between the 

 shoulder and wing-base ; underside of thorax with patches of 

 pale hairs above the front coxae and under the wing-base; every- 

 where else, including the venter, only very thinly pubescent. The 

 pubescence on frons rather longer, and towards vertex it is 

 blackish brown, at base of abdomen a narrow band of all black 

 hairs. Wing surface uniformly coffee-brown, with bronze and 

 cinnamon-brown reflections ; alulae very reduced so that the wing 

 is almost clavate ; legs paler broAvn than the body. 



Length, 16 mm. + ovipositor 4mm.; wing, 24 mm., breadth of 

 wing, 5| mm. 



Described by Lichtwardt from a single $ from Bambodde, 

 Ceylon (Nietner). 



Type in the Berlin Museum. 



