S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 55. (Budapest, 1994)

DISCUSSION OF THE SPECIES EMPOASCINI Acia exsultans McAtee One specimen without abdomen, Sikkim, Rumtek, 1700 m, lamp domes, 1990, I. Dworakowska. Alebroides adonis Dwor. 2 M, 1 F, Sikkim, Rumtek, 1700 m, lamp domes, 1990; 2 M, 1 F, Phodong, 1750 m, Artemisia, 7. III. 1991; 19 M, 23 F, Geizing, 1550 m, Artemisia, 11. III. 1991, I. Dworakowska; 1 M, Sikkim, Bongli, [810 m], 10. X. 1927, Bailey (in Zool. Surv. India in Calcutta). Alebroides curvatus Dwor. 30 M, 11 F, Sikkim, Rumtek, 1700 m, lamp domes, 1990; 6 M, 5 F, Gangtok, 1650 m, Artemisia, 2. III. 1991; 9 M, 3 F, Gangtok, N H-wy, 1800 m, Artemisia, 3. III. 1991 ; 1 M, Rumtek, 1800 m, 5. Ill, 1991,1. Dworakowska. Alebroides dentatus sp. n. (Figs 1-12) Type material. - Holotype male: India, W Bengal, Ghoom, 8-11 km S of Darjeeling, 25. X. 1981, C. A. Viraktamath (in UAS). - Paratypes: 5 M, same data as the holotype; 4 M, 9 F, Sikkim, Phodong," 1750 m, 7. III. 1991, I. Dworakowska (in UAS, BMNH, SMTD and NMNH). Background sordid yellowish-white or light beige. Vertex, pronotum, scutum and scutellum infuscated centrally (in dark specimens like that in Fig. 3), lateral margins of the infuscation diffused. Face light. In female sometimes apical part of anteclypeus and sides infuscated. Fore wing light beige with brownish broad strike along commissural margin that occupies large area of clavus and, lighter brown, continues in apical half of cua and joins similarly coloured apical part of wing. Length M and F 3.7-4.1 mm. Penis stem short and narrow in side view, broad basally in posterior view (Figs 1,2). Anal tube appendage large, sinuate, with a long base. The appendage has an additional small tooth at its caudal curvature (Figs 5, 12). Ventral pygofer appendage short and thick, abrupt apically (Figs 10, 11). Basal abdominal apodemes of male short (Fig. 8). Comparison. The new species A. dentatus is similar in external appearance and in genital structure to A. sinuatus Dwor. However its size is bigger, wax-field never reddish and a broad longitudinal streak along commisural margin continues almost to the end of cua cell. The main difference in genitalia when compared to A. sinuatus is large anal tube