DOLBINOPSIS. 



93 



Tribe SPHINGULINI. 



Sphingulicse, Roths. & Jord., 1903, p. 154 ; 

 fig. 5 ; Jordan, 1911, p. 236. 



id., 1907, p. 37, t. 1, 



Imago. — " <£$. End-segment of antenna short, not pro- 

 longed into a thin filiform process. Tongue half the length 

 of the body, or shorter. Spinulation of abdomen weak, spines 

 of sternite absent, or as weak as scales. No patch of friction- 

 scales on clasper. Mesotarsus without basal comb. Parony- 

 chium with two lobes at each side, or without lobes, never with 

 one lobe " (Roths. & Jord., 1903, p. 154). 



The early stages of the genus Dolbina only are known. 

 In the larva and pupa of this genus the general characters are 

 decidedly Ambulicine ; while the sculpturing on segment 4 

 of the pupa is entirely wanting, there are indications of ante- 

 spiracular ridges on segments 9 to 11. 



Hab. Oriental Region, with two Indian genera. 



Key to the Genera. 



Imagines. 



Fore tibia armed with an apical thorn ; no [Jord., p. 93- 



pulvillus Dolbinopsis Roths. & 



Fore tibia without apical thorn ; pulvillus 



present Dolbina Stgr., p. 94. 



Genus DOLBINOPSIS Rothschild & Jordan. 

 159 ; id., 1907, p. 33 



(Fig. 17). 

 Jordan, 1911, 



Roths. & Jord., 1903, p. 

 p. 237. 



Genotype : grisea (Hamps.). 



Imago. — " $. Allied to Dolbina, of which it is a development. 

 Palpus small. Pilifer with a few bristles as in D. inexacta. 



Fig. 17. — Dolbinopsis Roths. & Jord. 

 A, D. grisea (Hamps.), clasper and harpe ; B, penis-sheath. 



Antennal segments not quite touching one another ventrally, 

 penultimate segment longer than high. Fore tibia ending in 

 a naked thorn ; no pulvillus, paronychium scarcely indicated ; 

 first segment of fore tarsus longer than tibia (thorn excluded), 

 shorter than segments 2 to 5 together ; tibiae rather smoothly 

 scaled ; mid-tibia much longer than first tarsal segment ; 



