BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE, 111 



clothed with a yellowish or brownish-yellow pubescence. Legs 

 moderately long and slender, ochraceous, with a pale pubescence 

 Wings pellucid, with a very pale brown tint ; densely covered 

 with a somewhat interwoven pubescence, deeply ciliated on the 

 posterior angle, and reflecting margaritaceous tints when viewed 

 at a certain obliquity. Veins bi'own, the costal thickly haired 

 First longitudinal vein wide of the costa, joining more than half 

 way to the apex of the wing ; second longitudinal vein bent ex- 

 teriorly after leaving the cross-vein, joining the margin immediately 

 beyond the apex of the wings ; cross-vein distinct, rather oblique, 

 situated at a point about two-thirds of tlie length of the first 

 longitudinal vein from the base ; third longitudinal vein very 

 indistinct, the anterior bi-anch almost invisible. (Description 

 drawn from dried specimen), 

 i/ai.— Elizabeth Bay (Skuse). 



b. Thorax extending over the head in the form of a hood. 



Sub-genus 6. Necrophlkbia, sub-gen. nov. 

 Second longitudinal veins straight before the cross vein, reaching 

 the margin of the wing beyond its tip (PI. ii., fig, 10). Cross- vein 

 not very oblique. Third longitudinal vein without an anterior 

 branch. Antennae in the 9 2-+ 12-jointed, joints sub-cylindrical, 

 pedicelled ; two sparse verticils on each joint. 



63. Necrophlebia volitans, .sp.n. 



9. — Length of an tenn 80 0-050 inch ... 1-27 millimetres. 



Expanse of wings O'lSO x 0060 ... 380 x 1-54 



8izeof body 0100x0-030 ... 254x0.76 



Antennai sordid grey, 2-4- 12-jointed, joints sub-cylindrical, 

 darker than and twice as long as tlie pedicels, two veiticils to 

 each joint, hairs somewhat sjtarse, light, and not very long, basal 

 joints Vjrown, the first move than twice the length of, and thicker 

 than the second. Labium and palpi fad(;d yellowish or brownish- 

 yellow ; the three first joints of the palpi of the same length, 

 aimost cylindiical, the foui'th joint one-half longer than the others 

 and more slender. Thorax browniah-red, levigate, with two rows 



