The Philippine journal of science. [Vol. 57, no. 1]

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The Philippine Journal of Science

1935

Female.-Length, about 11 millimeters; wing, 11.5.
Rostrum yellow; palpi brown, the terminal segment brownish
black. Antenna broken beyond the brown scapal segment.
Head black, the front more reddish brown.
Pronotum yellow. Mesonotal preescutum yellow, the entire
disk covered by a polished black area, restricting the ground to
narrow humeral and anterolateral brightenings; scutum, scutellum, and mediotergite light yellow. Pleura entirely light yellow.
Halteres dusky. Legs with the coxre and trochanters yellow;
femora yellow, the tips black, including about the distal eighth;
tibise dark brown, the tips black; tarsi black (a single leg, middle, remains). Wings (Plate 1, fig. 1) with a strong brownish
yellow tinge, cells C and Sc, together with the prearcular field,
clearer yellow; very tiny to scarcely evident brown spots along
cord and at forks of R4+5 and Mi+2; veins dark brown, brighter
in the flavous areas. Macrotrichia of cells distributed about as
figured (shown by stippled dots). Venation: Rs relatively long,
about three-fourths the length of R4+5; r-m connecting with
Rs just before fork; cell M1 small.
Abdominal tergites one to four yellow laterally, black medially; on outer segments, the entire dorsum black; basal sternites
yellow, the outer segments and ovipositor black, only the outer
ends of cerci more reddish.
Habitat.-China (Szechwan).
Holotype, female, Yachow, 1930 (Graham).
Ptychoptera clitellaria is readily told from all other described
species of the genus by the peculiar coloration of the praescutum and abdomen. The family had not been recorded from
China.
TRICHOCERIDAE
TRICHOCERA ARISANENSIS Alexander.
Trichocera arisanensis ALEXANDER, Philip. Journ. Sci. 56 (1935) 339.
Described from the high mountains of Formosa. Mount
Omei, Szechwan, altitude 10,800 to 11,000 feet, August 16 to 20,
1934 (Graham).
PARACLADURA ELEGANS Brunetti.
Paracladura elegans BRUNETTI, Rec. Indian Mus. 6 (1911) 288.
Described from the eastern Himalayas. Mount Omei, Szechwan, altitude 11,000 feet, August 18, 1934 (Graham).