1886.J 267 [Hagen. 



wings short, about three times the length of abdomen, blackish 

 brown, except on the base, which is white, between very strong 

 black and black-haired veins and the extreme pointed tip which 

 is snow white ; a little beyond the middle the wings are largely 

 bi-dilatated, the first longer and broader (5mm.), the veins white 

 in the middle with oblique excisions between the dilatations. 



13. Nemoptera filipennis Westw. 



Nematoptera filipennis Westw., Ann. Mag. H. H., 1842, vin, 

 380, no. 19. 



Nemoptera filipennis Westw., Orient Cab., 70, pi. 34, fig. 6. 



Nemoptera filipennis Walk., List. Brit. Mus., n, 476, no. 18. 



Prof. Westwood described the species from the collection of 

 the late Mr. W. W. Saunders, and the male before me is a pre- 

 cious present from that gentleman, who was during his whole 

 life the generous patron of students of natural history. In the 

 Orient Cab. is described a specimen from Central India collected 

 by Mr. Hearsa}^ in Hope's collection, and in the British Museum 

 is a specimen from N. Bengal from Miss Campbell's collection. 

 Long. corp. 7mm ; al. ant. 10mm ; alt. post. 25mm. 



Male. By a sad chance the head and the prothorax of my speci- 

 men were lost when I tried to verify my observations made by a 

 strong lens, with the compound microscope. Head yellow with some 

 brownish marks ; eyes large, globose, distant as much as their di- 

 ameter ; in the little fovea on each side of the beak a fine erect 

 palpus. I have seen it undoubtedly similar to a fine spine. Tho- 

 rax thin, yellow ; abdomen brown, the basal half of the segments 

 pale yellowish ; superior appendages forming a pale forceps ; legs 

 long, thin, yellowish ; front wings three times longer than broad, 

 front margin straight to the pterostigma, hind margin curved ; 

 greatest breadth beyond the middle of the wing ; apex parabolic ; 

 veins pale yellowish ; fifteen costals to the pterostigma, the eight 

 nearest to the base straight, forming quadrangular elongated cells, 

 the following oblique, nearly together ; pterostigma large, dark 

 brown, filling seven narrow cells : venation large ; hind margin of 

 the wing, with a dense fringe of long brownish hairs ; hind wings 

 long, very narrow, basal half brown, with a brown fringe, apical 

 half white, pointed on tip. 



M'Lachlan has proposed, 1. c, p. 378, a new genus Croce for this 

 species and its allies. 



