1922. J F. C. Fraser : Oriental Ascalaphidae. 517 



The Deccan and Western Ghats appear to be the districts to which 

 this species is mainly restricted. 



Glyptobasis nugax Walk. 



Ascalaphus nugax, Walk., Cat. B.M., p. 433, no. 47 (1853); Hagen, 

 Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien. VIII, p. 481, no. 66(1858). 



Ascalaplms inctisans, Walk., I.e., p. 442, no. 63 (1853) ; F^gen, I.e., 

 p. 481, No. 67 (1858). 



Glyptobasis inctisans, Walk., I.e., p. 442, no. 2, p. 268 (187 1). 



Glyptobasis nugax, Ris, Cat. Coll. Selys, Ascalaplndae, p. 243, figs. 200 

 and 201 (1908). 



Type, a 9 from Ceylon, Mus. Grief vvald. 



One pair from Castle Rock, ix'1916 ; 29 9 , Talewadi. near 

 Castle Rock, Kanara Dist., Bombay Pres. (coll. S. Kemp) ; I & and 

 29 9, Barkul, o-iooo ft., Orissa, i-3*viiri9i4, "flying in thick 

 jungle, in rain" (coll. F. H. Gravely). 



This soecies appears to be restricted to Southern India and 

 Ceylon. With regard to the two females from Orissa I am not 

 altogether sure of the determination and think that they may be 

 varieties of the species. Females are, however, difficult to deter- 

 mine satisfactorily. 



Glyptobasis brunnea, sp. nov. 



i 9 , foot-hills, Pegu Yomas, Thayetmyo Dist., Burma, Oct. 

 191 1 (coll. C. J. Rogers). 



Antennae dark reddish brown, extending nearly to the level 

 of the stigma, about 4/5ths the wing-length ; club long and pyri- 

 form, very dark brown. 



Labium bright yellow, rest of head and face dark blackish 

 brown, coated thickly with coarse dark brown hair except the 

 occiput which is pale yellow and nearly bald. Eyes brown with 

 a metallic reflex, the upper hemisphere decidedly the larger. 



Thorax sparsely hairy, dark brown with a broad mid- dorsal 

 stripe of yellow which is encroached upon by an angular process 

 of the ground colour. Laterally a moderately broad, bright yellow, 

 oblique stripe. Legs dark brown, almost black, robust but short, 

 the anterior tibiae with a cushion of short, thickly-set, yellow 

 hairs on the flexor surfaces. Tibial spine of posterior tibia as long 

 as the basal joint of the tarsus. 



Abdomen blackish brown. Each of the four basal segments 

 bearing a bright ochreous spot shaped like a leaf with a crenate 

 border, the stalk connected to an apical ring of the same colour. 

 On the other segments this spot is more quadrate or like a leaf 

 without its stalk. 



Wings long and broad, slightly enfumed throughout, but the 

 apices for about the outer fourth of the wings dark reddish brown. 

 There is also a streak of the same colour immediately posterior to 

 the radius in the forewing. Stigma dark brown, with five ner- 

 vures, very obliquely pointed outwardly ; reticulation close, black ; 

 the appendix very acute and rather long ; apical field moderately 



