462 CATALOGUE OF 



Menapta XANTHOPHILA 



Mas. Flava, luteo conspersa ; abdomen ochraceum ; alee subtus 

 fuscce ; antica vitta, margine interior** lineolisque obliquis 

 punctularibus ochraceis ; posticce pur pur 'eo -fuse ce, fimbria 

 pallide flavescente. 



Male. Yellow, more or less overspread with luteous. Ab- 

 domen dull ochraceous. Disks of the wings more or less brown on 

 the under side. Fore win^s with a bright ochraceous stripe 

 exteuding from the base to the tip ; interior border and several 

 oblique lines of points of the same hue. Hind wings purplish 

 brown ; fringe pale yellowish. Length of the body 1 1 — 12 lines ; 

 of the wings 28 — 32 lines. 



a. b. North Hindostan. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



Genus CEIRA. 



Mas. Corpus vix robustum. Proboscis nulla. Palpi breves, 

 squamosi, suberecti; articulus 3us minimus. Antenna? validae, 

 setulosa?, pubescentes. Abdomen valde attenuatum, alas posticas 

 longissime superans; fasciculus apicalis longus, gracilis, compressus. 

 Pedes robusti, fimbriati ; tibiae posticae calcaribus quatuor longissimis. 

 Ala? anticae longae, sat angustae, apice rotundatae, margine exteriore 

 recto sat obliquo. 



Male. Body hardly stout. Proboscis obsolete. Palpi stout, 

 squamous, nearly erect, not rising higher than the vertex ; third 

 joint extremely small. Antennae stout, setulose, pubescent. Ab- 

 domen very long, much attenuated, extending very far beyond the 

 hind wings; apical tuft long, slender, compressed. Legs stout; 

 femora and tibia? fringed ; hind tibiae with four very long spurs. 

 Wings long. Fore wings rather narrow, rounded at the tips ; 

 exterior border straight, rather oblique. 



Ceira metaphjea. 



Mas. Pallide flava ; caput subtus nigrum ; palpi supra nigri ; 

 abdomen fuscum, suturis fasciculoque apicali pallide flavis ; 

 ala? antica ochraceo conspersa, punctis guttisque nonnullis 

 nigricantibus,, strigis duabus obliquis punctisque submar- 

 ginalibus ferrugineis ; posticm fuscce, fimbria pallide flava. 



Male. Pale yellow. Head black beneath. Palpi black 

 above. Abdomen brown ; sutures of the segments and apical tuft 

 pale yellow. Fore legs brown above. Fore wings thinly ochraceous- 



