450 B. Brunetti : Oriental Bomhylidce. [Voi.. II, 



which was taken on board ship, ten miles from the coast, off 

 MasuHpatam (Madras), has the hyahne portion of the wings quite 

 clear, thus agreeing with one mentioned by Osten Sacken from 

 the Philippines (/. c. ante). 



11. semiscita^ Wlk., 1857, Pr. Linn. So, Lond., i, 118, & 



{Anthrax). 

 Loc— Borneo [t. Wlk.]] Celebes [t. Os. Sack.]. 



12. varia, F,, 1794, Ent. Sys,, iv, 259 {Anthrax). 

 For good description see Sch. F. Aust., i, 54. 

 I/OC. — Western Himalayas. 



N.B. — This species has not before been recorded from the 

 East, but a specimen ( $ ) taken by the Indian Museum Collector 

 at Bhim Tal (Kumaon District, 4,500 feet, 26-ix-i907) is undoubt- 

 edly this species, which is a generally distributed Paleearctic one. 



13. instituta, Wlk., 1852, Ins. vSaund., pt. 3, 183, 2 {Anthrax). 

 Loc. — East India. 



14. carbo, Rond., 1875, Ann. Mus. Gen., vii, 453 {Anthrax). 

 Loc. — Borneo. Type (unique) in Genoa Museum. 



N.B. — My thanks are due to Dr. R. Gestro of the above 

 Museum for kindly examining the type and supplying me with in- 

 formation enabling me to place the species in Argyramceha. 



15. ceylonicat mihi, sp. nov. 

 Plate xii, fig. 24 (abdomen). 



Loc. — Ceylon. Type in my collection. Trivandrum (S. Ind.), 

 xi-08 {Annandale) [Ind. Mus. Coll.]. 



16. nivcisquamis, mihi, sp. nov. 



" Loc. — Baluchistan. Type in Indian Museum. 



Notes on the genus ARGYRAMCEBA. 



It is difficult to satisfactorily divide the species of this genus, 

 except by an exhaustive table of analysis, which in the present 

 case is impossible, as I have only seen a few of them. A. hipunc- 

 tata, F., and aterrima^ Dol., are easily separated from all the rest 

 by the practically wholh^ blackish brown, unmarked wings. The 

 colour is less pronounced posteriorly and the wing has a small 

 clear space in aterrima. The others, except ceylonica and nivei- 

 squamis, all have the very common oblique band on the base 

 and costa, more or less clearly cut, with or without additional 

 marks or spots. Two of the three new species that I introduce 

 {ceylonica and niveisquamis) have the usual appendix to the fork 

 of the 3rd longitudinal vein, also the pencil of hairs at the tip of 

 the antennal style, which also shows the bisection mentioned by 

 Osten Sacken (Biol. Cent. Am., i), but gentilis, though I place it 

 here, lacks the appendix and I do not perceive the bisection. 

 The closed anal cell will, however, easil}^ distinguish it. I have 

 introduced most of Walker's species on their own merits alone, 



