GLYPTOBASIS SPINICORNIS. 



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NOTE XXII. 



A NEW AND CURIOUS BURMESE ASCALAPHID 

 EROM THE GENOA MUSEUM 

 (GLYPTOBASIS SPINICORNIS) 



BÏ 



Dr. H. W. VAN DER WËELE. 



(With 2 text-figures). 



Some time ago Dr. R. Gestro at Genoa communicated 

 to me for determination a small collection of Ascalaphidae, 

 made by the late Leonardo Pea in Burmah. As that part 

 of my recently appeared » Monographic der Ascalaphiden" 

 (Catalogue des Collections Sélys, 1908) was then already 

 printed, I publish here the description of the single new 

 and very curious species in' this collection. 



Glyptobasis spinicornis, nov. sp. 



Nearest related to Gl. denti- 

 fera Wlk. from India by the 

 coloured tips of the wings in 

 the 9, but larger, about as large 

 as Acheron trux Wlk. 



Antennae reaching about to 

 the pterostigma, black, in the 9 

 straight and simple, in the (ƒ 

 very curiously shaped in the basal 

 fourth (fig. 1), which is S-shaped. 

 The basal part is very stout and 

 slightly curved outwards, com- 

 posed of long joints that bear 

 very short and feeble bristles 

 at the articulations (somewhat 

 remembering the antennae of the 

 cT of the brasilian genus Orphne). 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXX. 



Glyptobasis spinicornis, n. sp. <ƒ. 

 Head and basal part of the 

 antennae. 



