XIvIV. REVISED AND ANNOTATED CATA- 

 LOGUE OF ORIENTAI, BOMBYI, ID^ 

 WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPE- 

 CIES. 



By E. Brunetti. 



The object of the present paper is mainly to revise the species 

 of the sub-family AnthracincB , by placing them in their correct 

 genera, and to describe a number of new ones which are to be found 

 either in the Indian Museum, the Pusa collection, or my own. 

 These new species all appear very distinct from all previously 

 described, otherwise I would not have ventured to establish them. 

 To these descriptions I have ventured to add some redescriptions 

 of a few species of the older authors (mainly Walker's), which, on 

 account of their brevity, are not easily recognisable 



As regards the disposition of the species in the various genera, 

 Van der Wulp's Catalogue gave twenty-one and forty-six species 

 respectively, under Exoprosopa and Anthrax, besides six under 

 Argyramceba, thus ignoring the genus Hyper alonia altogether. To 

 my surprise I find this latter genus also ignored in the new Palsearc- 

 tic Catalogue, for tantalus, F, a true Hyperalonia, is placed under 

 Exoprosopa. It is certainly a valid genus, as admitted and re- 

 characterised by Osten Sacken in the Biologia Cent. Amer. (i, y8), 

 and Prof. Bezzi admits it in his recent notes on this group (Zeits. 

 Hym. u. Dipt., 1908, pt. i, p. 26), In the present paper I have 

 included under this genus all those species with four submarginal 

 cells, having had no means of testing them on the other characters 

 proposed by Osten Sacken ; still, this character in itself is of generic 

 rank. 



Of Van der Wulp's twenty-one species of Exoprosopa, thirteen 

 belong to Hyperalonia, and of the remainder, two (binotata, Mcq., 

 and ccBruleopennis , Dol.) are synonymous ; the former with Exopro- 

 sopa collaris, W., and the latter with Hyperalonia tantalus, F. 



Of Van der Wulp's fortj^-six species of Anthrax, I refer six to 

 Hyperalonia, and seven each to Exoprosopa and Argyramceba, leav- 

 ing seventeen as approved species of the genus {sensu stricto) ; two 

 additional ones being synonymous {carbonaria, Wlk. = Argyramceba 

 bipunctata, F., and trimaculata, Wulp = Argyramceba distigma, W,, 

 var.). Of the residuum of seven species, I refer in a special note to 

 one {emarginata, Macq.), leaving six of which it has been impossible 

 to obtain suflEicient information to place them generically. 



Van der Wulp's four species of Argyramceba remain in that 

 genus. 



My thanks are due, and are hereby tendered to Mr. E. E. Austen 

 of the British Museum, through whose kindness in examining the 



