K)22.] F. C. Fkaser : Oriental Asealaphidae. 515 



Ascalaphus immotus, Walk., I.e., no. 33, p. 425 (1853). 



Ascalaphus pmcax. Walk., I.e., no. 34, p. 425 M853). 



Ascalaphus odiosus, Walk., I.e., no. 35, p. 426 (1853). 



Ascalaphus imimulans, Walk., I.e., no. 36, p. 429 (1853). 



He) icomitns in*imulans, Walk, and MacLach., Jo'irn. Linn. Soc, Zool. 



XI, p. 2^2 (1871); Wtele, Notes Leydcn Mus. XXVI, p. 200 (1905); 



XXVIII, p. 153(1907) 

 Ascalaphus cervinus, Hagen, MacLach. ( I.e., p. 267 (1871). 

 Svpliulusca cervinus, Hagen, Gerstaecker, Mitt, natur. Ver. Neu.- 



Vorpomm. und Rugen, 16, p. 88 (1885). 

 Suphala<ca placida, Gerst., I.e., p. 105 ('893); Weele, Notes Leyden 



Mus. XXVI. p. 228 (1906) ; I.e., XXVIII, p. 156 (1907). 

 Helicomitus dicax, Ris, Cat. Coll. Selys, Asealaphidae. p. 172 (1908). 



Type in Brit. Mus. 



1 9 , Amarah, Mesopotamia (taken in a tent), X1916 (coll. 

 F. P. Connor) ; 3 & <f , Eden Gardens (at light) and Museum 

 Compound, Calcutta ; 2 9 9 , Chowringhee, Calcutta, 27"iviyi4, 

 27'vig2i. 17^1911, and 28V1911 (coll. N. Annandale and 

 F. H. Gravily); is, Khargpur, Bengal, ^-^o'vrign (coll. 

 R. Hcdgarl). 



The specimens exhibit in a small way the extreme variabilit3'' 

 of this insect, especially in the markings. The species is widely 

 distributed. I have taken it on several occasions in Mesopotamia 

 above Kerna, that is above flooding areas, and it becomes in- 

 creasingly common towards Amarah and Kut. Extends from Asia 

 Minor to the Philippines and has been reported from Arabia, India, 

 Ceylon, Java,. China and Celebes. 



Genus Suhpalacsa Lefebr. 

 Suhpalacsa obscura, sp. nov. 



1 cf (rather teneral), Khemsa, 2650 ft., 5^1913. 



Head : Antennae pale yellowish brown, the club long and 

 pyriform, finely ringed with blackish brown; about half the 

 length of the forewing. Jaws and face pale yellow ; vertex and 

 occiput brown, coated thickly with long brown hair ; eyes dark 

 purplish, iridescent brown. 



Thorax dark brown, unicolorous, coated thickly with long 

 dark brown hair, the sides paler. 



Legs moderately short and robust, palest brown with a 

 sub-basal spot of black on the tibiae, coated with long whitish 

 hairs. 



Abdomen long and cylindrical, tapering at the end segments, 

 shorter than the hind wing, purplish brown, with obscure apical 

 black annules on each segment. 



Anal appendages tumid, elliptical, moderately long ; genital 

 flaps foliate, notched in the middle. 



Wings hyaline, reticulation moderately close, white spotted 

 with black, the subcosta especially, which bears at its junction 

 with each transverse nervure, a longitudinal black spot, so that 

 it appears alternately black and white; stigua short, very pale 

 brown, traversed by 4 nervures ; apical field broad, 3 rows of cells 



