BRACHYGLOSSINA. By L. B. Prout. 
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S. indecorata Warr. (6 f), founded on a pale, thinly-scaled $ from Simla, is better recognizable from indecorata. 
two beautiful <$$ from Goorais Valley, Kashmir, June, one of which we here figure. Perhaps related to in¬ 
ornate] which the type recalls in its weak markings, though the postmedian line is somewhat more proximally 
placed. The Goorais Valley examples show the median line brown, placed beyond the cell-dot of the forewing, 
the postmedian grey, luimlate-dentate, the underside strongly marked . The termen of the forewing is scarcely 
appreciably sinuous, that of the hindwing just noticeably bent at the middle; 5th subcostal of forewing arising 
very little beyond the 1st. antennal joints appreciably projecting, ciliation normal; hindtibia with strong 
pencil, tarsus cpiite short. 
S. indeterminata Warr. (6 f) is also from Simla and may be looked for in the Punjab. Perhaps connects indetermi- 
indecorata with the Indian actiosaria Walk., which will be discussed in Vol. 12. Larger, paler and more weakly 
marked than the latter, termen of forewing slightly more oblique, tending to sharpen the apex, both wings 
otherwise similar to it in shape — very slightly and somewhat irregularly waved. Smaller and perhaps 
narrower winged than indecorata, all the subcostals of the forewing stalked beyond the areole; median line 
almost crossing the very small cell-dot, post median slightly sinuous, subterminal shades generally fairly strong. 
The $ is similar in structure to that of indecorata , but the antennal joints scarcely project and the hindtibia 
seems relatively somewhat longer and more heavily tufted. 
S. emarginata L. ab. niosquensis Heyne. Culot (Vol. 3, p. 68, f. 191) re-describes and figures this mosquensis. 
aberration, again in the $ sex and again without stating whether (as I surmise) it is confined to this sex. 
— simplicior Wehrli (6 g), founded on a £ from the Sierra Nevada, is remarkable for its different wing-shape, simplicior. 
the forewing having much weaker incision and no definite angle, the hindwing only a single, not a double angle. 
Median shade bright orange instead of grey, antemedian line angled costally, thence almost straight and per¬ 
pendicular to the inner margin. Further material from the same region shows that the shape is not always so 
extreme, but confirms the characteristics of the antemedian line. 
S. microptera Warr. & N. 0. Rothsch. (6 f). Only a hurried reference was made to this tiny species in microptera. 
the addenda to Vol. 4 (p. 418). A supplementary notice, with a figure, will be found in Vol. 16, p. 78, pi. 8 1, 
but its most noticeable structural distinction from some similar species (e. g. minimaria Warr.) was left un¬ 
recorded, namely the loss of the areole; all the 5 subcostals are well stalked. The stalking of the 2nd subcostal 
of the hind wing is very long. Hindleg of rather long, rather slender, tarsus aborted. Recorded from the 
Sudan, Egypt, Kordofan and S. Palestine. 
S. granulosa Warr. N. C. Rothsch. (Vol. 16, pi. 8i). I have restored to this (Vol. 16, p. 78) the status granulosa. 
of a species, on account of the somewhat less long cells, absence of cell-dots and somewhat more distally placed 
outer line; but the question is not yet closed. The type Avas from the Egyptian Sudan, but I have also records 
from Egypt. Venation as in microptera. 
S. sordida Rothsch. (6 f), also briefly referred to in our addenda (p. 417), is still imperfectly known and sordida. 
I strongly suspect it is a more or less melanic form of microptera., on an average perhaps not quite so small. The 
type $ (Oued Nssa, between Ghardaia and Guerrera) seems to agree with a species from other desert localities 
in S. Algeria, particularly Ain Sefra, from which I have taken the figure and the characters. Tongue rather 
long; wings narrow; forewing without areole, all the 5 subcostals stalked; hindwing with 2nd subcostal very 
long-stalked; $ antenna with ciliation about 1 % times as long as diameter of shaft; <$ hindleg short and weak, 
tarsus very short; $ genitalia (kindly examined by Dr. Sterneck) quite as in the (Palaearctic) Egyptian and 
Palestinian specimens which pass for microptera (which, however, I have not seen). Known also from Tozeur 
(Tunis) and Sidi Mesri (Tripoli). Occurs between the middle of May and the end of July. 
S. miserrima Turati (6 f) differs from the preceding in the presence of the areole, rather less extreme miserrima. 
stalking of the 2nd subcostal of the hindwing and the less coarsely dark scaling; the q antennal joints seem to 
project more. Turati likens the colour to that of the Indian testecea Swinh., but all the specimens that I have 
seen (mostly from Sidi Mesri) are decidedly darker than in that species. The originals were 4 $?> merely 
registered as from “Tripoli" in June. The only <$ in the Tring Museum has unfortunately lost both its hindlegs. 
In miserrima the tongue seems to be short, the costal vein of the hindwing, although not anastomosing with 
the cell at appreciably more than the normal “point", continues approximated as far as to the middle of the 
cell, thence diverging more rapidly. 
27. Genus: ISraehyglossi iia F. Wagn. 
An offshoot, or perhaps (as Dr. Sterneck, in litt., strongly advocates) section, of Sterrha, differing 
chiefly in the atrophy of the tongue, which is described as consisting, in the type species, of “colourless, only 
weakly chitinized (membranous) short remnants, of scarcely more than the length of the palpus". Antenna 
of the subserrate, with moderate fascicles, hindtibia of the without pencil, the tarsus short. ForeAving 
with cell long; hindwing not emarginate, 2nd subcostal generally very long-stalked. Until an exhaustive study 
