514 Records of the Indian Museum. [Voi,. XXIV, 



Antennae yellowish, club broad, black and spatulate. Head 

 thickly coated with light brown hair, face rather p^ler, also coated 

 with brownish hair. Eyes reddish brown, about evenly divided. 



Thorax moderately broad and short, stiiped longitudinally 

 and alternately with dark brown and paleochreous, the mid-dorsum 

 dark brown followed outwardly by a narrow ochreous band and 

 then by a broader, dark brown, humeral band on a level with the 

 wing insertions. Laterally pale ochreous, chest pale brown. 



Legs short and moderately slim, femora yellowish red, tihiae 

 reddish brown, tarsi black, claws reddish. Posterior tibial spurs 

 about as long as the basal joint of tarsus. 



Abdomen long and slim, uniform dark reddish brown, the 

 sides of the three basal segments coated with very short, very 

 stiff hairs which stand out perpendicular to the surface. 



Anal appendages very short, directed down and outwards, 

 with a few long bristles projecting from the ends ; genital flaps 

 very short, conjoined, spatulate. 



Wings hyaline, faintly tinted with brown, reticulation moder- 

 ately close, reddish brown, subcostal field brown ; this colour 

 prolonged along all the nervures radhting from the subeosta and 

 radius so as to form a narrow, serrated fascia extending from the 

 base of the wing to the stigma. Pterostigma brown, traversed by 

 4 to 5 nervures, broad and rather long, its outer border rather 

 oblique. The brown of the stigma is also prolonged along the costal 

 margin as far as the apex of the wing. Apical field moderately 

 broad, with 3 rows of cells. Axillary angle obtu-e and very blunt. 



Antennae 25 mm. ; forewing 39 mm. ; hindwing 32 mm. ; 

 abdomen 31 mm. 



Suphalomitus verbosus Wa'k. 



Ascalaphus ver'osus, Walk., Cat. B.M. Ne-r., no. 36, p. 426 (1853). 



A>calaphus pn/inns, Walk., I.e., no. 39, p. 4*8 1853). 



Helicomi us -verbosus, MacLach., Jo urn. Linn. Soc, Zuol., XI, p. 262, 



n«'. 4 (1871 . 

 Helicomitus prof unus, Macl.ach., I.e., no. 5, P. 262 (1871). 

 Suphalomitus verbosus, Ris, Cat. Coll. Selys, Ascaiuphidae, p. 183 

 I1908). 



Type in Brit. Mus. from North India. 



2 females, Coorg, 2000 ft., 19 13, coll. Hannynglon, and 

 Annaichardi, S. India, 1909. 



2 females, Pashok, Darjiling Dist., alt. 2500 ft., vi*i9i6, 

 (coll. I. C Harlless). 



A widely distributed species reported from Northern India, 

 Mysore, Rangoon and Ceylon. The present examples do not difier 

 markedly from type, the markings varying according to the age of 

 individuals. 



Genus Helicomitus MacLach. 

 Helicomitus dicax Walk. 



Ascalaphus dicax, Walk., I.e., no. 31, p. 423 (1853). 

 Ascalaphus sinister, Walk., I.e., no. 32, p. 424 (,1^53). 



