dark band near the apex, but the very tip light, the others with dark 
apex. First tarsal on fore and mid legs faintly mottled but mostly 
orange-coloured, the following joints have mixed orange and brown 
scales; the second joint light at the base but growing darker, and the 
remaining joints all darker—dusky orange—those of the fore-leg slightly 
the darker. Ungues on both uniserrate. On the hind leg the first 
and second tarsals have narrow pale basal bands, otherwise they are 
quite dark. The following joints missing. 
Wing membranes yellowish, veins orange, sparsely clothed with 
small very dark brown and yellow scales, the latter mostly on the 
costa, sub-costa and first long vein, except at the bases which are 
dark, very few on the third, and practically absent on the fifth and 
sixth. There are four dark spots on the wing, first at the humeral 
cross-vein an aggregation of dark scales, second, a little proximal of 
the junction of the sub-costa and costa a dark spot in the membrane, 
where oddly enough there is a short incrassation joining the sub-costa 
to the first long vein, third, at the root of the second long vein, spot 
in membrane, and a (fourth) and much larger spot at the root of the 
third vein, a spot in membrane extending in a line with the cross-vein 
from the upper fork of the fifth to the first long vein. First sub¬ 
marginal cell longer and narrower than second posterior, its base a 
little exterior to that of the latter. The cells are comparatively short, 
the stems of each being considerably longer than the cells; the cross¬ 
veins meet almost in a line, the mid and posterior being about the 
same length and longer than the supernumerary. The costa is much 
the most yellow-scaled of the veins, and it and the first long vein are 
nearly pure orange colour at their apices. Halteres with light stems 
and dark knobs. 
Length.— About 7 mm., without proboscis. 
Habitat. —Parang, Mindanao, P.I. 
Taken Oct. 26. 
Described from one specimen sent by Major Page, Med. Corps, 
U.S. Army. It lies very near Theobald’s aurantia , and except for 
the additional and rather curious wing spot I should think it probably 
a variation of his species.—C. S. L.” 
Genus Howarmna. Theobald. 
Hoivardina aureostriata. Grabham (1906). 
Canad. Ent. XXXVXXI., 171 (1906). 
“ $ . Proboscis black and slender, curved downwards, rather long 
and narrow, three-quarters the length of the abdomen. Palpi black, 
extremity of terminal joint golden scaled, a few golden scales on the 
upper median surface of the penultimate joint; under surface of palpi 
speckled with golden scales. Antenna black, scattered golden scales 
throughout its length, especially on the lower joints ; about three- 
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