iiiiii i 2K. NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE. Vol. XXVL, 1919. NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE H Journal of Zoology IN CONNECTION WITH THE TRING MUSEUM. EDITED BY LORD ROTHSCHILD, F.R.S., Ph.D., Dr. ERNST HARTERT, and Dr. K. JORDAN. Vol. XXVI., 1919. (WITH SIX PLATES.) Issued at the Zoological Museum, Trino. PRINTED BY HAZKLL, WATSON k VINEY, Ld., LONDON AND AYLESBURY. 1919-1920. CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXVI. (1919). AVES. PAGES 1. More Notes on the Crested Larks of the Nile Valley. Ernst Haetekt . 36 — 40 2. Further Notes on some Uicruridae. E. C. Stuabt Baker . . . 41 — 45 3. Types of Birds in the Tring Museum. B. T3rpes in the General Collec- tion (Part 1). Ernst Hartert 123—178 4. Some Notes on the Genus Surniculus. E. C. Stuart Baker . . 291 — 294 5. Explanations of Plates V. and VI. Ernst Habtert .... 358 LEPIDOPTERA. 1. Supplementary Notes to the Review of Houlbert and Oberthiir's Mono- graph of Castniinae by Talbot and Prout. Lord Rothschild . 1 — 27 2. Review of ■' A Monograph of the Castniinae." George Talbot . . 28 — 35 3. A Classification of the Aegeriadae of the Oriental and Ethiopian Regions. Sib George F. Hampson ........ 46 — 119 4. Three New Genera of Tineina resembling Aegeriadae. John Hartley DURRANT 120—122 5. Some Sphingidae from the East. Karl Jordan ..... 190 — 192 6. List of Tjrpes of Lepidoptera in the Tring Museum. Part I. Lord Rothschild 193 — 251 7. On new Genera and Species of Lepidoptera Phalaenae with the characters of two new famiUes. Sir George F. Hampson ..... 253 — 282 8. The PapiHos of Para (Plates II.— IV.). Rev. A. Miles Moss . . 295—319 9. A Geographical Table to show the distribution of the American PapUios. W. J. Kaye 320—355 10. Algerian Lepidoptera. (Explanation of figures on Plate I.) Lord Rothschild . . . < . . . . 356 — 357 V ( vi ) NEUROPTERA. PAOKS 1. A Contribution to the Knowledge of the Neuropterous Insects of Algeria. (Illustrated.) Lonoinus Navas 283—290 VERMIDEA. 1. Dispharages (Nematodes) de I'Afrique Mineure. (Dlustre.) L. G. Seurat 179—189 INDEX 359—385 LIST OF PLATES IN VOLUME XXVI. I. Algerian Lepidoptera. By P. W. Erohawk. II. — IV. Larvae of Papilios of Para. By A. Miles Moss. V. Sylvietta neumanni Rothsch., Pachycephala moroka Rothsch. and Hart. Pachycephala tenebrosa Rothsch. By H. Gronvold. VI. Melipotes ater Rothsch. and Hart. 'e dk Selt. Art. Cast. p. 7. pis. 1. fig. 1. and 4. fig. 3 (1899) (Rio Grande do Sul). The $ of this form generally has the liindvvings darker yellow than the '\\\ be approved of by unbiased brother ornithologists. It is perhaps good that Nicoll wrote that letter to the Ihis, if only that it induced me to make my own views clearer and more expUcit. In difficult genera like Gahrida finality and consent can only be reached very gradually, by studying and discussing over and over again the various forms and questions. The status of the genus Galerida has altered more than perhaps any other within the last 30 years. In 1890 appeared Sharpe's account of it in vol. xiii. of the Catalogue of Birds. It is clear from the lengthy notes on pp. 625, 626, that Sharpe was considerably puzzled, and, though he might have separated more forms than he did, if he had had more regard to geographical separation, he could not possibly NOVITATES ZOOLOaiCAE XXVI. 1919. 39 have come to a fully satisfactory conclusion with the material before him. About the same time I began to take special interest in Larks, and the unsatisfactory state of the genus in the Catalogue of Birds led me to make my notes in Novitatbs ZoOLOGicAE, 1897, pp. 142-7. Thus I broke the spell, which, as in other cases, a great leading work had cast over the group. While Sharpe had recognized four species, Galerida cristata, theklae, malabarica, and isabdlina — though not one of the birds he called theklae was a real theklae, and most of his isabellina belonged to other forms — ^I acknowledged two species, G. cristata and deva (Sharpe's Spizalauda deva), the former with 18 subspecies. This was a considerable advance, though some of my conclusions were utterly wrong. The next step, and doubtless the greatest ever made in the study of Crested Larks, was Erlanger's review of the Tunisian forms in Journ. f. Orn. 1899, pp. 324- 52. Erlanger had the enviable opportunity to travel through the greater part of Tunisia, and to observe and collect Crested Larks wherever he v.ent. He was the first modern ornithologist who, apparently in collaboration witli Kleinschmidt and Hilgert, clearly recognized that G. theklae was not a subspecies, but that in many parts of Northern Africa a form of cristata and one of theklae Uved together, that both were therefore species, each with a number of subspecies. Erlanger also described biological differences, and so did I from my first journeys in Algeria with Lord Rothschild, but these conclusions do not hold good, the only difference which is a fact being that G. cristata is chiefly a bird of the plains, while some (not aU) forms of theklae range high up in the mountains — in many places, however, for example in Spain, near Biskra, on the Hauts Plateaux of Algeria, in Marocco, in Tunesia, both occur in the same places ; certain forms inhabit only certain restricted localities, but these peculiarities do not hold good throughout the species in all forms. Song, nests, and eggs differ sometimes, but not equally throughout the two species. Based on Erlanger's discoveries, Whitaker's and my own continual studies of this group, I was able to come to a fairly correct review in Vog. pal. Fauna, pp. 226-40 (publ. 1904), but since then Kleinschmidt and Hilgert, Loudon and Harms, Nicoll, Neumann and others, have advanced our knowledge, while Rothschild, Hilgert, and I collected vast series in Algeria and the Sahara. It is there where an observant collecting ornithologist must see that two species live together, and how they vary geographically, but also, sometimes to a disturbing degree (specially the theklae forms), individually ! Wliile Nicoll assures us that he has studied Crested Larks in Egypt for over eleven years, may I remind him that I have studied the Crested Larks of the world for about twenty-eight years, and I know probably very much more about their considerable individual variation, which Nicoll tells us (p. 743) exists, as if it was a point missed by us. It is just the individual variation which leads me to beUeve that " moeritica " cannot be separated from maculata, and I believe that this view wiU be the right one in the end, though I admit that I would like to examine again a larger series from the Fayoum. About the distribution of maculata and nigricans nothing can be clearer than NicoU's words in Ibis, 1914, p. 548, where he says of the former, which he called altiroslris of course, that it " can be traced on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt from Mariut on the west as far east as Damietta, southward on both sides of the Nile south of Cairo to Asswan," adding : "It generally skirts the breeding range of G. c. nigricans in the delta and keeps to the poorer soil near the 40 NovrrATEs Zoologicae XXVT. 1919. desert edge, but in places it meets with, and possibly interbreeds with, the latter." There is one sentence in Nicoll's article in the Ibis, 1918, p. 742, which I do not understand at all. He says, " Hartert, who has frequently expressed to me personally and also done so in print, that a scientific name on a label is unnecessary." I have surely never said such a thing, and I don't think Nicoll means that exactly. There are perhaps not very many ornithologists who have written more scientific names on labels than I, and for anyone using a collection it is of the greatest value to find the correct scientific names on the labels, and nobody has empha.sized more than I how important it is to write them on the type specimens, and to mark the latter clearly and conspicuously, and for this we have adopted bright-red labels, which is of the greatest convenience and saves a lot of trouble. Probably Nicoll meant to say that I had explained to him that names on labels, unless pubhshed in print, have no standing in nomen- clature, or I might have said that I did not consider it of value that a collector in the field, who has as a rule only his memory to go by, puts a name on a label, or that it is better not to write a name on unless one has compared the specimen in question and has made out what one believes to be the correct name, so as to avoid alterations afterwards. — Vivat, crescat, floreat scientia Oaleridarum ! NOVTTATEa ZOOI^OOICAE XXVI. 1919. 41 FUETHER NOTES ON SOME DICRURIDAE. By E. C. STUART BAKER, F.L.S., F.Z.S. OicTurus annectens. IN the Ibis, 1918, p. 226, Kloss has recently separated the Siamese form of the Ci'ow-billed Drongo as Dicrurus annectens siamensis on account of the alleged smallness of the bill. This diagnosis is to some extent confirmed by the material in the British Museum, but not to the same extent by two birds collected by Mr. E. G. Herbert. Kloss 's birds, which include three adults and two juv., have bills which measure 87 mm. in breadth at the nostrils, and 85 mm. in height at the chin. There are four birds in the British Museum from Siam, and these have the bill the same size in breadth as given by Kloss, but in depth at the chin they are just under 10 mm., practically the same as other birds from other areas. Of Mr. Herbert's two birds, one collected at Mi Nam Kabren, some 100 miles N.E. of Bangkok, has a bill only 83 mm. in width, but the other from Keo Tung Song in S.W. Siam, close to where Kloss's birds were obtained, has a biU 10 3 mm. in breadth. The following table gives the measurements of D. annectens over the whole of its habitat. The width of the bill is taken at the nostrils and the depth at the chin in the same way as taken by Kloss, a method which obviates vaiiation due to difference in make up of skin and loss of feathers. and Area. Oude, Nepal. A33ain Central and North Burma Cen. Burma and Tennasserim . S. Malay Pen. Borneo Siam . BiU, breadth. Bill, depth. Wing. So. of spedouju. 10-1 mm. ( 9'0toll-5) 105 mm. (100 to 110) 1430 mm. (132-147) 10-Omm. ( 90toll"0) 107 mm. (100 to U'O) 138 3 mm. (132-145) 10-8 mm. (10-0 to 12-0) irOmm. (lO'O tol2 0) 10-0 mm. ( 9'0 to 12 0) 8-5mm. ( S'Sto lO'S) lO'Smm. (lO'OtoirO) 10-7 mm. (10-0 to U'o) 102 mm. ( 95 to II'O) 9'5mm. ( S'Sto HO) 140'0mm. ( 138-5mm. ( 139'1 mm. ( 144*5 mm. ( 131-147) 129-145) 124-147) 137-156) 12 15 5 30 9 The variation in both depth and breadth of bill is very great, but in Siamese birds the latter dimensions are very small, in every case but one being below the minima in other areas. It must also be noted that though they have the smallest bill measurements the birds themselves are the largest of all. Thus, in spite of the paucity of Siamese material, Kloss's sub-species must be maintained, at all events until more material either confirms or disproves his diagnosis. I therefore recognize two races of this species. (1) Dicrurus annecteris annectens. Buchanga annectens Hodge., Ind. Rev. L p. 326 (1837). Type in Calcutta Museum. Type Locality. Nepal. Size a trifle smaller, wing averaging just over 139 mm. broad, measuring at the nostrils about 105 mm. bill decidedly more 42 NOVITATIIS ZOOI/OOICAE XXVI. 1919. HMtat. The Sub-Himalayas and adjoining country of Northern India from Nepal to extreme east and south of Assam, the whole of the tracts of lower hills in Burma, Malay Peninsula, and Northern Siam. (2) Dicrunis annectens siamensis. Dicrurus annectens siamensis Kloss, Ibis, 1918. p. 226. Type in Museum Fed. Malay States. Type Locality. Koh Lak, S.W. Siam. Size a trifle larger, wing averaging 144- 5 mm. ; biU decidedly less broad, measuring only about 8' 5 mm. at the nostrils, also generally less deep and a little shorter, but by no means constant in the two last respects. Habitat. Central, South, and Peninsular Siam. The boundaries of this form cannot be given at present with any degree of certainty, Gyldenstolpe did not meet with it in North and North Central Siam. It must be remembered that Malayan birds generally, including those from Peninsular Burma, have bills of 11 mm. in breadth, larger than anywhere else, although in geographical position they are nearest to Kloss's siamensis. This is a fact that makes one doubt if, eventually, this sub-species wiU not have to be suppressed. Bhringa remifer. This Drongo follows the universal, or almost universal, rule in Indian and Burmese birds and becomes somewhat smaller and smaller as one follows it through from north to south. The diminution in size is not, however, quite so marked as it is in many other instances, whilst, on the other hand, the extent of over-lapping is even greater. This is shown in the following table : Area. Wing, e^remes. Average. ""vl'^S^ (1) Nepal to Sikkim . . . 132'0 to 146'0 mm. (2) Assam to Manipur . . . ISl'O to 143'0 mm. (3) Upper Chin and Shan Hills . . 133'0 to U2-0 mm. (4) Central and South Burma . 129'0 to 137*0 mm. (5) Java 1300 to 1370 ram. (6) Sumatra 1280 to 132-0 mm. (7) Mt. of Perak and Pahang . . 127'0 to 134-0 mm. As regards division by size it is only the first four of these areas which need consideration, as birds from ( 5) and ( 6) are easily separable on account of their very small outer tail feathers, the racquets of which are smaller — both shorter and narrower — than in birds from other parts ; whilst No. 7 is differentiated at once from all other geographical races by the quite different formation of the tail. After some consideration it seems advisable to retain all those birds found in the four areas first enumerated under one and the same name. Principally I come to this conclusion because nowhere can a line be drawn where it can be said that the majority of birds on either side of it are larger or smaller, and no definite area exists in which the size is in any way constant. Again, there are no colour or structural differences which help to support the differences in average measurements. I therefore recognize the following three races only : Average. PTamin 140'Omm. 40 134-6 mm. 33 136-2 mm. 22 131 -5 mm. 23 132 -6 mm. 5 130-0 mm. 3 130-0 mm. 11 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXVI. 1919. 43 (1) Bhringa remifer remifer. Edolius remifer Temm., PI. Col. 178 (1823). Type Locality. Java and Sumatra. I designate Java as the type locality. This is a small bird with a wing averaging 131-6 mm. and varying between 128 and 137 mm. The tail is a very poor ornamental feature when compared with those of birds from the north ; the outer tail feathers are only of 300 mm. or under, and with small, narrow racquets seldom exceeding 50 mm. in length. The birds in the collection of the Tring Museum confirm my diagnosis both in this and the other races admitted by me. Habitat. Java and Sumatra only. (2) Bhringa remifer tectirostris. Bhringa tectirostris Hodgs., Ind. Rev, L p. 325 (1837), Type Locality. Eastern Nepal. This is on an average a much larger bird than typical remifer, though in the South of Burma the two forms are very similar in size. In every case, however, it has a far finer tail than has the Javan and Sumatran bird. The outer tail feathers in most cases exceed 350 mm. in length, running up to 400 mm., whilst the racquets are a good deal longer, generally between 70 and 90 mm., and, especially, a good deal wider. The wing averages in llSbirds 136 mm., and varies between 129 and 146 mm. Habitat. Northern India from Eastern Nepal to the whole of Burma north of Rangoon, Chin, Kachin and Shan States, Yunnan, and Northern Siam. (3) Bhringa remifer peracensis. Stuart-Baker, Bull. B.O.C. xxxix. p. 18 (1918). Type Locality. Mts. of Perak, Telom. B. r. peracensis differs at a glance from all other races of Bhringa remifer in having the outermost tail feathers without any broad spatulae, but with the terminal half, or rather more, with broad webs on either side, narrowest where they commence from the practically bare shaft, and gradually increasing until the two form a feather about 15 mm. in width at the widest part. If the appar- ently bare webs be examined under an ordinary magnifying glass it will be seen that, unlike B. remifer remifer a.nd B. r. tectirostris, there are signs of feathering everywhere except for an inch or two near the base. In size B. r. peracensis averages in wing measurement 130 mm., and varies between 127 mm. and 134 mm. The tails are very long, the outermost feathers sometimes exceeding 400 mm. Habitat. The mountains of Perak, Telom, Pahang. It is quite probable that this form will be found to inhabit a higher range than the more typical remifer, and may possibly extend throughout the mountains of the Malay Peninsula, and we may expect the birds in the extreme north and extreme south to graduate in appearance with B. r. tectirostris and B. r. remifer respectively. 44 NOVITATES ZOOIOOICAE XXVT. 1919. Chibia hottentotta. The Hair-Crested Drongo is yet again one of the birds which follow the usual rule, and birds from the south are smaller than those from the north, as shown in the table here given. Ares. Wing. Average- BUL Areragc. No.of specimftM. North-Westjndia 169-180 mm. 175'1 mm. 27-32 0 mm. 29-5 mm. 10 Nepal, Sikkiiu, Bhutan 162-177 mm. 1687 mm. 26-3 rs mm. 293 mm. 26 Assam .... 158-175 mm. 166*3 mm. 26-3 ro mm. 28 -0 mm. 21 Burma and Siam 152-175 mm. 162 '6 mm. 25-30-5 mm. 27-6 mm. 32 Bombay and Central India 155-1 65 mm. 158"0 mm. 25-29-5 mm. 28-0 mm. 5 China .... 160- 180 mm. 168 '6 mm. 24-260 mm 253 mm. 72 The above series are those contained in the British Museum, and the measure- ments of these 166 are confirmed by some 40 skins examined elsewhere, but the 5 Bombay and Central Indian birds and the 10 from North-West India are all T have been able to examine from these parts, and the smallness of my material from these places whence we have the two extremes of measurement makes me hesitate to draw any conclusions therefrom. At first sight it would seem impossible that the birds from these two areas could be the same, the difference in average wing measurement being no less than 17 mm., whilst the largest Bombay bird is 4 mm. smaller than the smallest specimen from the North-West. If further material from these two areas confirms the above measurements it may be desirable to divide the Indian and Burmese birds into three forms. For the present I leave them all under the same name. As regards the Chinese birds we do not require to rely on body measurements to distinguish them from those farther west, the smaD biU sufficing to show at a glance, in 9 out of 10 cases, the country from which they have come ; the bill in Chinese birds measuring only some 25 mm. as against 29 mm. in those from elsewhere. The measurements are taken from the anterior edge of the nostril to the tip of the bill in a straight line, and though this makes the comparative difference seem but small, it ensures great accuracy. For the present, and until an examination of more specimens confirms or contradicts the measurements given in the table above, I retain only two races. (1) Chibia hottentotta hottentotta. Corvus hottentottus, Linn., Sys. Nat. L p. 155 (1766). Type Locality. Said to be Cape of Good Hope. This locality is of course absurd, and I therefore designate Sikkim as the type locahty. A form varying very greatly in size ; -wing from 1 52 to 180 mm. and averaging 166-2 mm. This name may well embrace two more races when further material is available for examination, one from North-West India and a second from Bombay and Central India. Its large bill, averaging about 29 mm. and varying between 26 and 29- 5 mm. (rarely 25 mm.), suffices to distinguish it from the next sub-species -viith a bUl of only a little over 25 mm. Habitat. Bombay Presidency, the Himalayas from Murree to Eastern NOVITATEe ZOOLOQICAE XXVI. 1919. 45 Assam, Eastern Bengal, Assam, Burma as far south as Tennasserim, Shan States, Yunnan, and Northern Siam. (2) Chibia hotientotta brevirostris. Trichomeiopus brevirostris Cab., Mus. Heiti. L p. 112 (1851). Type Locality. China. About the same in size as C. h. hottentoita ; wing average, 168- 6 mm., and running from 160 to 180 mm., but with a distinctly smaller bill, measuring on an average only 25-3, and never exceeding 26 mm. Habitat. South China. 46 . NOVITATES ZOOLOOICAE XXVI. 1919. A CLASSIFICATION OF THE AEGERIADAE OF THE ORIENTAL AND ETHIOPIAN REGIONS. By sir GEORGE F. HAMPSON, Bart., F.Z.S., Etc. THE follomng classification of the Aegeriadae is intended to be supplementary to M. Le Cerf' s excellent paper in Oberthiir's Etudes de Lepidopterologie ConiparSe, xiv. pp. 127-388 (1917), and the extremely beautiful plates illustrating it published by M. Ch. Oberthiir in his Fascicules, xii. and xiv. This paper is unfortunately left very incomplete, owing to M. Le Cerf having been called up for military service ; and as, besides the collection of the British Museum, I have had the types at the Oxford Museum, Lord Rothschild's collection, and also those in Mr. J. J. Joicey's and Mr. E. Meyrick's collection Idndly placed at inv disposal for study, I have had a rather exceptional opportunity afforded me for bringing the study up-to-date as far as the Oriental and Ethiopian regions are concerned. The studj^ of the whole subject so as to include the faunas of the Palaearctic, Nearctic, and Neotropical regions would have taken more time than I had my disposal, but I have included all the sufficientlj- described genera in my key, and given a list of those from outside the regions dealt with, mth the names of the type species. I am also indebted to Mr. A. J. T. Janse of Pretoria and Mr. H. Dollman of N. Rhodesia for the gift to the British Museum of tlie types of some new species described in this paper, and have also availed myself of the beautiful series of specimens bred by Mr. F. P. Dodd in Queensland in Lord Walsingham's collection. A t signifies that I have examined the type of the species, and an * that the species is not in the British Museum. fam. aegeriadae. Proboscis fully developed or aborted and not functional ; palpi upturned, usually more or less obUquely, and reaching to about vertex of head, often fringed with long hair in front tow'ards base, almost always acuminate at tip and very rarely with some spinous hair at the extremity of the joints {Echidgnathia), in Grypopalpia with tuft of long hair from 2nd joint in front ; frons smooth, very rarely with conical prominence (Rodolphia) ; eyes more or less elUptical and often rather small, not hairy ; antennae pectinate with paired or uniseriatc branches, serrate and fasciculate, fasciculate, or ciUated, the cilia often very long, or often almost simple, the shaft in all the genera of the typical group dilated towards extremity and ending in a small tuft of hair, but in the much smaller Bembecia group tapering to extremity and not ending in a tuft of hair ; thorax usually smoothly scaled ; legs with the mid and hind tibiae often tufted or fringed with long hair and scales ; this reaches its cUmax in Melittia, where the tufts on the tibiae and tarsi are very largely developed and the hind legs are used for paddUng in the air when hovering before a flower, in Synanthedon, etc., the hind tarsi have the first joint only tufted with scales, and in others the tibiae only are fringed with hair or scales, whilst in Conopia, etc., there are slight tufts of spurious hair at the spurs and at the tarsal joints, in Alonina the mid tibiae are spined, in NOVITATES ZOOLOOIOAE XXVI. 1919. 47 H-l w o >^ o 1 .1 1 ■S ft 1- "S 1^ as _a sr Q s ►-^ 'H •5 « -§■ E -i -1 f i i2 * 0 00 Ci 3 -s .1 rf- ^ ^ 3 Q. g v} •2 1 ■S o -8 C5 'S 0 a. 48 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXVl. 1910. Tipiilomima, Macrotarsipus, etc., the tarsi are very long ; abdomen usually smoothly scaled, in Oligofhlehia vAih hairy dorsal crests, in Sura, etc., with lateral tufts of scales towards extremity, the anal tuft usually large and spreading, but in Aegeria, etc., the abdomen tapers to a small compressed anal tuft ; in Sannina, Episannina, etc., the abdomen ends in pencils of hair ; whilst in Alcathot and CTyptomima there are long roughly scaled dorsal processes from above the base of the anal tuft ; in Tipiilomima, etc., the abdomen is somewhat constricted at base, in Vespanthedon and Similipepsis it forms a slender pedicel. Forewing more or less narrow and elongate, the apex rounded, the termen obliquely curved ; veins 1 b forked towards base ; 1 c absent ; 2, 3 usually separate, but .sometimes stalked or coincident, and in Tradescanticola veins 2, 3, 4 all coincident ; 4, 5, 6 usually well separated, in the Aegeria group veins 4, 5 curved downwards ; 7, 8 usually stalked, but sometimes coincident or separate ; 9, 10, 1 1 usuallyfrom the cell, but in Aegerosphecia, etc., 9 is stalked with 7, 8, and in Lenyra 10 also is stalked wth them ; whilst in Callisphecia 9is stalked with 8, and 7 from the cell, and in other genera veins 10, 1 1 arc coincident or become coincident towards the costa. Hind- wing with veins 1 a and b present, 1 c absent, 2 usually from well before angle of cell ; 3 and 5 usually stalked or from a point ; but 3 in Paranthrene, etc., from before the angle of cell ; in Melittia, etc., from nearer 2 than 5 ; and in the Tinihia group almost from a point with 2 ; vein 4 coincident with 3 ; 6 usually from well below upper angle of cell ; and 7 from the angle, but in the Bembecia, Tinthia group 6 usually from much closer to the upper angle of cell ; 8 concealed in a fold and closely approximated to the cell and vein 7. A. Antennae dilated towards extremity and ending in a minute tuft of hairs, a. Hindwing with veins 3, 5 stalked or from a point, a'. Forewing with veins 4, 5 not curved downwards, a'. Forewing with veins 7, 8 coincident. a'. Forewing with veins 2, 3 coincident ; hind tibiae and tarsi tufted with scales Oligophlebia, p. 52 b*. Forewing with veins 2, 3 not coincident, a*. Hind tibiae and tarsi tufted with scales. a'. Hind tarsi very long ....... Aschiatophleps, p. 52 b^. Hind tarsi of normal lengtli. a'. Palpi w th very long tuft of hair from 2nd joint in front Grypopalpia, p. 52 b^ Palpi without tuft of hair from 3rd joint in front. . . Helnosphena. p. 53 b*. Hind tibiae and tarsi not tufted with scales. a'. Abdomen constricted towards base .... Hymenosphecia, p. 77 b*. Abdomen not constricted towards base . . . Calascsia, p. 51 b'. Forewing with veins 7, 8 stalked. a'. Fofewing with vein 9 stalked with 7,8. . . . Megalosphecia, p. 78 b'. Forewing with vein 9 from the cell. a*. Forewing with veins 10, 11 coincident. a'. Hind tarsi with the Ist joint fringed with scales above . Alcaihoe, p. 51 b'. Hind tarsi with the 1st joint not fringed with scales above. a'. Abdomen slightly constricted towards base . . Aegerina, p. 51 b*. Abdomen not constricted towards base, a'. Proboscis aborted and not functional, a*. Forewing with veins 2, 3, 4 coincident . . Tradescanticola, p. 64 b*. Forewing with veins 2, 3, 4 separate . . Chamanthedvn, p. 64 b'. Proboscis fully developed. a». Vertex of head with large tuft of scales . . Lophoceps, p. 69 b'. Vertex of head without tuft of scales . . Teleosphecia, p. 51 NOVTTATES ZOOLOOICAE XXVI. 1919. b«. Forewing with veins 10, 11 becoming coincident towards oosta, a*. Abdomen with very long roughly scaled process from above base of anal tuft . ..... b'. Abdomen without dorsal process from above base of anal tuft c*, Forewing with veins 10, 11 separate. a^. Hind tarsi with the 1st joint fringed with scales above, a'. Proboscis aborted and not functional, a'. Hindwing with veins 3 and 5 stalked . b'. Hindwing with veins 3 and 5 from a point b«. Proboscis fully developed. a'. Hindwing with veins 3 and 5 stalked. a*. Mid tibiae spined ; hind tarsi very long . b'. Mid tibiaa not spined. a". Hind tarsi very long ..... b'. Hind tarsi of normal length. a". Palpi with the 2nd joint fringed with long scales in front ; abdomen with large anal tuft b". Palpi smoothly scaled in front, a". Abdomen with five anal pencils of hair in male, two in female .... b". Abdomen with large anal tuft b'. Hindwing with veins 3 and 5 from a point. a'. Hind tarsi strongly fringed with scales to near extremity ...... b». Hind tarsi with the Ist joint only fringed with scales. a'. Hind tibiae with large tuft of scales above towards extremity. a". Hind tarsi with fringe of scales on Ist joint above and tufts of scales on terminal joints ....... b". Hind tarsi with fringe of scales on 1st joint above only ...... b». Hind tibiae fringed with scales above throughout ; palpi with the second joint fringed with long scales in front. ...... c'. Hind tibiae with tufts of hair at the spurs ; palpi with the 2nd joint smoothly scaled in front , Hind tarsi with the 1st joint not fringed with scales above. a«. Proboscis aborted and not functional, a'. Abdomen constricted towards base b'. Abdomen not constricted towards base. a*. Forewing with vems 2, 3 closely approximated. a'. Hind tarsi very long b'. Hind tarsi of normal length .... b". Forewing with veins 2, 3 not approximated. a». Head and palpi clothed with long hair . b". Head and palpi not clothed with long hair . b'. Proboscis fully developed. a'. Abdomen constricted to a slender pedicel towards base b'. Abdomen slightly constricted towards base, a*. Hind tarsi very long ..... b». Hind tarsi of normal length. a». Palpi fringed with long hair in front . b». Palpi smoothly scaled in front b'. Pseudalcathoe, p. 51 Ghamaeaphecia, p. 68 Monopetalotaxis, p. 58 Oaia, p. 63 Aloniiia, p. 78 Lepidopoda, p. 54 Pyropteron, p. 51 Sannina, p. 51 Synanthedon, p. 59 Trilochana, p. 83 Tarsopoda, p. 51 Euryphrissa, p. 51 Hypanthedon, p. 62 Crinipus, p. 53 V eapanthedon, p. 77 Aenigmina, p. 71 Dipsosphecia, p. 63 Euhagena, p. 64 Veismannia, p. 51 Sphecosesia, p. 77 Tvpvlomima, p. 56 Podoaeaia, p. 63 Parharmonia, p. 51 50 X0\1TATES ZOOLOOICAE XX\^. 1919. c'. Abdomen not constricted towards base. a*. Hind tarsi very long ..... b*. Hind tarsi of normal length. a'. Hind tibiae very strongly tufted with scales b'. Hind tibiae not strongly tufted with scales, a". Frons with conical prominence ; palpi porrect W. Frons without prominence ; palpi upturned . c'. Forewing with vein 9 stalked with 8, 7 from the cell . d^. Forewing with veins 7, 8, 9 from the cell .... W. Forewing with veins 4, 5 curved downwards. a'. Forewing with vein 9 stalked with 7. 8. a'. Forewing with ve'.n 7 from 8 before 9. . . . . b'. Forewing with vein 7 fiom 8 beyond 9. a*. Hindwing with veins 3 and 5 stalked ; abdomen clothed with rough hair ........ b*. Hindwing with veins 3 and 5 from the cell ; abdomen smoothly scaled ....... b*. Forewing with vein 9 from the cell. a*. Proboscis aborted and not functional. a'. Hindwing with veins 3 and 5 stalked .... b*. Hindwing with veins 3 and 5 from a point . b'. Proboscis fully developed. a'. Forewing with veins 10, 11 becoming coincident towards costa, 2, 3 closely approximated ; hindwing with the lower discocellular outwardly oblique, veins 3 and 5 stalked b*. Forewing with veins 10,11 not becoming coincident towards costa, 2, 3 well separated ; hindwing with the lower dis- cocellular inwardly oblique, veins 3 and 5 from a point . b. Hindwing with vein 3 from well before angle of cell and nearer 2 than 5. a*. Forewing with veins 7, 8 coincident ....'. b*. Forewing with veins 7, 8 stalked. a'. Hind tarsi very long and tufted with scales at the joints, especi- ally towards extremity ....... b'. Hind tarsi of normal length and tufted with scales throughout . c. Hindwing with vein 3 from before angle of cell and nearer 5 than 2. a*. Forewing with veins 7, 8 coincident. a'. Proboscis aborted and not functional ; palpi obliquely upturned and moderately scaled ; hind tibiae at extremity and tarsi at the joints with shght tufts of hair, the latter very long and fringed with scales above towards extremity .... b*. Proboscis fully developed. a'. Hind tarsi strongly tufted with scales .... b'. Hind tarsi not tufted with scales ..... y, Forewing with veins 7, 8 stalked. a'. Forewing with veins 9 and 10 stalked with 7, 8 ; hind tarsi tufted with scales ......... b'. Forewing with veins 9 and 10 from the cell, a'. Proboscis aborted and not functional. a*. Palpi with some spinous hair at extremities of 2nd and 3rd joints ; mid and hind tibiae at the spurs and the tarsi at extremity of 1st joint with tufts of scales and spinous hair b'. Palpi without spinous hair at extremities of 2nd and 3rd joints ; mid and hind tibiae at the spurs and the tarsi at extremity of 1st joint without tufts of scales and spinous hair ........ b'. Proboscis fully developed. a*. Hind tarsi strongly tufted with scales .... b*. Hind tarsi not strongly tufted with scales. Macrotarsipus, p. 58 Episannina, p. 55 Bodolphia, p. 70 Conopia, p. 71 CaUisphecia, p. 83 Anaudia.p. 112 Toleria, p. 79 Dasyaphecia, p. 79 Aegeroephecia, p. 79 Sphecia, p. 80 Aegeria, p. 81 Mettuphecia, p. 82 OlosBosphecia, p. 83 Melanosphecia, p. 95 Macroscelesia, p. 84 Mdiltia, p. 84 PyrarUhrene, p. 1 10 Hypomdittia, p. 96 Adixoa, p. 100 Lenyra, p, 96 Echidgnathia, p. 97 Thyranthrene, p. 97 Pseudomelitlia, p. 100 NOVITATES ZOOLOOICAE XXVI. 1919. 61 a'. Abdomen constricted towards base .... Sincara, p. 5 1 b'. Abdomen not constricted towards base. a'. Abdomen with lateral tufts of hair towards extremity . Sura, p, 98 b'. Abdomen without lateral tufts of hair towards extremity, a'. Abdomen with very long roughly scaled dorsal process from above base of anal tuft .... Cryptomima, p. 100 b'. Abdomen without dorsal process from above base of anal tuft, a'. Abdomen with large spreading anal tuft . . Paranthrene, p. 100 b*. Abdomen with slight anal tuft . . . Homogyna, p. 1 10 B. Antennae tapering to a point at extremity and not ending in a tuft of hair. a. Hindwing with veins 3 and 5 stalked ; forewing with veins 2, 3 coincident, a^. Forewing with veins 7, 8 stalked. a''. Proboscis aborted and not functional. a'. Forewing with veins 10, 11 coincident .... Micrecia, p. 113 b'. Forewing with veins 10, 11 separate .... Bcmiecia, p. 112 b^. Proboscis fully developed ....... Qlosaecia, p. 113 b'. Forewing with veins 7, 8 separate, 2, 3 stalked .... Paradozecia, f. IH b. Hindwing with veins 2, 3 almost from a point long before angle of cell. a'. Forewing with veins 7, 8 coincident ..... Tyrictaca, p. 114 y. Forewing with veins 7, 8 stalked, 10, 11 coincident . . , Paraaesia, p. 51 c'. Forewing with veins 7, 8 separate. a?, Forewing with veins 2, 3 coincident, a'. Hind tarsi with large tufts of scales above to near extremity. a,'. Antennae with the shaft clothed with rough scales above Sophona, p. 51 b'. Antennae with the shaft not clothed with rough scales above Neotinthia, p. 1 15 b'. Mid and hind tarsi with large tuft of scales on Ist joint above . Tinthia, p. 1 15 c'. Tarsi without tuft of scales on 1st joint above . . . Trtcftowroto, p. 116 b^. Forewing with veins 2, 3 stalked ..... Zenodorus, p. 1 18 c'. Forewing with veins 2, 3 separate ..... Proaegeria, p. 119 C, Hindwing with vein 3 from just before angle of cell and widely separated from 2 ; forewing with veins 2, 3 coincident, 9 stalked with 7, 8 ; abdomen constricted to a slender pedicel at base . . . Similipspais, p. I li GENERA NOT FOXJKD IN THE ORIENTAL AND ETHIOPIAN REGIONS Aegerina Le Cerf, Oberth. St Lip. Camp. xiv. p. 332 (1917) type ovinia ^ioWAoeH. Edw., Popi70, ii. p. 53 (1882) typeca!((fatoi .... Calasesia Beutenm.. J.N. Y. Ent. Soc. vii. p. 256 (1899) type cocoinea . Euryphrissa But!., A.M.N.H. (4) xiv. p. 409 (1874) type plumipea Parasesia Le Cerf. Oberth. £l. Lep. Comp. xiv. p. 322 (1917) tjrpe crystallina Parharmonia Beutenm. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. viii. p. 124 (1896) type pint Pyropterontiewma.n, Ent. Mag. i. XI. T5{\S35)ty^e chrysidiformis Peeudahathoe Le Cerf, Oberth. St. lAp. Comp, xiv, p. 320 (1917) tjje chatanayi ........ Sannina Wlk., viii. 64 (1856) type uroceriformis Sincara Wlk.. viU. 61 (1856) type eumeniformis SophonaWik., viii. eO{lS56) type halictipennis Tarsapoda Butl., A.M.N.H. (4) xiv. p. 410 (1874) type remipes Tdeoephecia Le Cerf, Oberth, £t. Lep. Comp. xiv. p. 280 (1917) type bibia Le Cerf = unicolor Wlk. ........ Vtiamannia Spiiler, Hoffmaim's Or, Schm, Eur, ii. p. 317 (1910) type agdiatijorrrtia Mexico ; Guatemala. Canada ; U.S.A. U.S.A. Brazil. Brazil. Canada : U.S.A. Europe. Panama. U.S.A. Brazil. Brazil. Brazil. Bolivia. Europe. Gen. Oligophlebia. Oligophhbia Hmpsn., Moths Ind. i. p. 201 (Jan. 10th, 1893) ; id. III. Lep. Het. B.M. ix. p. 61 Type. nigraiba 52 NOVITATES ZOOLOOICAE XXVI. 1919. t Oligophlebia subapicalis n. sp. ?. Head, thorax, and abdomen black, with a slight leaden-grey gloss, the frons whitish at sides, the patagia at extremity and dorsal crest on 1st segment of abdomen tipped with some white and orange-yellow scales, the other segments with a few white scales at extremities, on the 5th segment forming a more com- plete band ; antennae white before tips ; palpi white in front except at tips ; throat and coxae white, the fore tibiae below at base and tarsi except at tips white, the mid and hind tibiae and tarsi banded with white, the ventral surface of abdomen white except at extremity. Forewing black with a leaden-grey gloss ; two white discoidal points ; a semicircular white patch with a cupreous tinge except at costa just before termen from costa to vein 2 ; a slight white point above middle of inner margin and white mark at tornus. Hindwing hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly black-brovm ; cilia fuscous. Underside of forewing black-brown. Up. Burma, Maymyo (Bingham), 1 ? type ; Siam, Biserat, 1 ?. Exp. 1 mill. (1) Oligophlebia nigralba. t Oligophlebia nigralba Hmpsn., Moths Ind. i. p. 201 (1893) ; id. III. Het. B.M. Lx. p. 61. pi. 157. f. 21. Ceylon. (2) * Oligophlebia cristata. Oligophlebia cristata Le Cerf, Oberth. £t. Lip. Comp. xii. 1. pi. 377. f. 3159 (1916) ; id. Ic. xiv. p. 273. Java. (3) * Oligophlebia amalleuta. Oligophlebia amaHeiUa MejT., Eec. Ind. Mus. v. p. 219 (1910). Bengal, Parisnath. Gen. Aschistophleps. Type. Aschistophleps Kmpan., Moths Ind. i. p. 200 {IS93). lampropoda (1) Aschistophleps lampropoda. t Aschistophleps lampropoda Hmpan., Moths Ind. i. p. 200 fig. (1893). Assam, Khasis, Margarita ; Tonkin. (2) Aschistophleps metachryseis. t Aschistophleps metachryseis Hmpsn., Moths Ind. iv. p. 465 (1896). Tip. Burma. (3) Aschistophleps ruficrista. t Aegeria ruficrista Roths., Nov, Zool. six. p. 122 (1912). Borneo, Sarawak. Gen. Grypopalpia nov. Type. G. iridescens. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about middle of frons, with a very long curved tuft of hair projecting from it m front with some loose hair above it, the 3rd long and nearly smoothly scaled ; NOVITATES ZOOLOQICAE XXVI. 1919. 53 frons smoothly scaled ; eyes large, elliptical ; antennae of female almost simple, dilated towards extremity where there is a slight tuft of hair ; thorax smoothly scaled ; fore tibiae slightly fringed with hair ; mid tibiae with slight tufts of spinous hair at middle and extremity ; hind tibiae and the first joint of tarsi strongly fringed on both sides with hair and hair -like scales ; abdomen smoothly scaled. Forewing narrow ; veins 2, 3 approximated ; 7, 8 coincident ; 10, 11 approximated. Hindwing with veins 3 and 5 from a point at lower angle of cell, 4 absent ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7 from upper angle of cell ; 8 concealed in fold. * t Grypopalpia iridescens n. sp. ?. Head and thorax black with an iridescent gloss and irrorated with a few white scales, the sides of frons and genae white, the palpi with the scales at extremity of 1st joint on inner side and some of the long hair at extremity of 2nd joint white ; abdomen scarlet, the basal segment black, the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th with slight black segmental lines and diffused dorsal spots ; fore- legs black with white spots at base and extremity of coxae and the tarsi ringed with ochreous, the hindlegs with some white and ochreous at middle and extremity, the tarsi suffused with ochreous, the hindlegs with the tibiae except at base and the 1st joint of tarsi orange-scarlet, the rest of tarsi with a few orange scales ; ventral surface of abdomen orange-scarlet except at base. Forewing black suffused with brilliant metallic blue-green except the costal area and cilia. Hind- wing with the costal half and the veins and margins of inner half black suffused with brilliant metallic blue-green, the interspaces of inner half hyaline ; cilia black. ITatal, Durban (Leigh), type ? in Coll. Rothschild. Ex-p. 20 mill. Gen. Heterosphecia. Type. Heterosphecia Le Ceri, Oberth. £<. Lip. Comp. xiv. p. 243 (1917) .... myticus (1) Heterosphecia eruentata. ■\Adixoa cruerUata Swinh., A.M.N.H. (6) xvii. p. 359 (1896). Assam, Khasis. (2) * Heterosphecia haematochiodes. AachistophUps liacmatochrodes Le Ceri, Bull. Sor. Ent. Fr. 1912. p. 354. fig. Tonkm. (3) * Heterosphecia myticus. Heterosphecia myticus 1,6 Ceri, Obertii. M. Lip. C<»np.:ia, 1. pi. 375. f. 3139 (1916); id. Ic. xiv. p. 244. Assam, Naga Hills. (4) * Heterosphecia melissoides. t AschistopMeps melissoides Hmpen. Moths Ind. i. p. 201 (1893). Burma, E. Pegu. Gen. Crinipus. Crinipus Hmpsn., P.Z.S, 1896. p. 277 hucozunipus 54 NOVITATES ZOOLOQICAE XXVI. 1919. Crinipus leucozonipus. •f Crinipus leucozonipus Hmpsn. P.Z.S. 1896. p. 277. pi. x. f. 21. Aden. Gen. Lepidopoda. Type. Lepidopoda Hmpsn., J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xiii. p. 43 (1900) .... heterogyna (1) Lepidopoda heterogyna. t Lepidopoda heterogyna Hmpsn., J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xiii. p. 44 (1900). Uadras, Cuddapah. (2) t Lepidopoda xanthogyna n. sp.