( 509 ) XXII. Descriptions of new species of holophthalmous AscalaphidfB. By Egbert McLachlan, F.R.S., &c., Treasurer, Ent. Soc. Lond. [Bead November 4th, 1891.J The species herein described are as follows : — Ptynx furciger. Arizona. Campylophlehia (n. g.) magnifica. Cameroons. Idricerus Elwesii. Darjeeling. Idricerus japonicus. Japan. Idricerus (?) Alhardanus. Mesopotamia. Four of these are in my collection ; the other has been obligingly communicated by Mr. Herman Albarda, of Leeuwarden. The generic term Cormodes, McLach. (preoccupied), is changed to Allocor modes. Ptynx furciger, n. sp. Antennae yellowish-brown, paler at the base of each joint and before the club, which is blackish-brown, paler in the concave portion above. Head above blackish, with broad yellow eye-margins, clothed with dense blackish-cinereons pilosity ; face wholly pale yellow, with whitish-yellow pilosity ; mandibles shining piceous at the tips; palpi pale yellow, the terminal joint more testa-ceous ; back of head pale yellow. Eyes blackish, finely reticulated with cinereous. Thorax blackish above, with blackish-cinereous pilosity, and two snbparallel distant yellow longitudinal bands ; sides and pectus very densely clothed with hoary white silken pilosity ; some yellow spots under the wings. Legs clothed with hoary pilosity, tibiae and tarsi with black spines ; femora black, yellow at the apex ; tibiae yellow, fuscescent internally ; tarsi and claws piceous. Abdomen slender, slightly shorter and more robust in the 2 ; colour more or less cinereous : in the ^ the 2nd and 3rd segments above are clothed with dense straight outstanding cinereous hairs, and at the end of the third segment there is a narroiu semi-erect yellow dorsal valve or process (about 2 inm. long), concave beneath, narrow at the base, widened at the apex, which is very deeply notched or slightly furcate ; on the 4th and TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1891. PART IV. (dEC.)
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