320 Dr. L. Melichar. 



brown along the bind margin, the first six or seven marginal nervures from the tip fur- 

 cate or bifurcate. 



Long. corp. 7 mm.; exp, al. 20 mm. 



Cliristmas Island. 



9. Varcia vitripennis Leth. 



Ricania vitripennis Lethierry, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., ser. 6, X, pag. 147, 6. 



Pallide virescens; elytris hyalinis, apica leviter fumatis, stigmate quinque-venoso, 

 evidentius fumato sed pellucido; vertice antice truncato, in medio parum angulato, 

 oculo fere duplo latiore; fronte elongata, in disco tricarinata, carina media acuta 

 distinctissima. Pronotum lateribus angustis, medio antice productum, ibique antice 

 rotundatum, vertice in medio duplo longius. Mesonotum tricarinatum, carinis fuscis. 

 Elytra ampla, corpore duplo longiora, in disco et praesertim ad apicem venis numerosis 

 transversis reticulata, venis lateribus transversis, apicalibus longitudinalibus regulariter 

 dispositis, simplicibus, nee reticulatis, quibusdam furcatis; clavo venis transversis tantum 

 duabus ad apicem instructo; venis omnibus, longitudinalibus et transversis elytrorum 

 fuscis; tibiis posticis quinquespinosis. 



(f. Long corp. 7 mm.; cum elytris 12 mm. 



Central- Amerika, Caracas (Leth.). 



10. Varcia Greeni Kirby. 



Nogodina greeni Kirby, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool., XXIV, pag. 158, Taf. V, Fig. 15 (1894). 



Head and thorax mostly testaceousabove, the latter with two blackcarinae, diverg- 

 ing behind, the space between these and the central testaceous stripe brown; a black 

 spot on each side in front; abdomen yellow at the sides (greenish at the base) and brown 

 in the middle; marginal carinae and last two segments black; a white spot at the base 

 of the terminal segment. Face testaceous, with the frontal and lateral carinae very 

 narrowly black; three testaceous carinae, diverging and disappearing at a level with the 

 lower boundary of the eyes, which are black in the middle, bordered with yellowish; 

 rostrum black at the base and extremity. Under surface of body pale greenish; coxae 

 spotted and bind femora lined beneath with black; tarsi and spines of hind tibiae 

 blackish; abdomen brownish in the middle and with the sides of the terminal segments 

 black. Tegmina and wings hyaline, with brown nervures; hind margins bordered with 

 smoky brown, tegmina with a large oblong stigma, enclosing a square vitreous spot on 

 the subcostal space; there is also a brown spot at the tip and another within it; another, 

 cenfluent with the brown border, Stands rather below the middle of the hind margin; 

 and the inner margin is broadly brown, from the point, where it forms a rounded projec- 

 tion near the base to the hinder angle; the nervures nearest the inner margin are broad 

 and brown, and the cross-nervures rising before the hinder angle are also slightly 

 clouded. 



Length g mm., exp. teg. 28 mm. 



Ceylon, Deltota. 



Gen. Aphanophrys n. g. 



Diese der Gattung Nogodina und Sassula nahe verwandte Gattung ist vor Allem 

 dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Costalm embran äusserst schmal ist, von weit 

 auseinander stehenden Quernerven durchzogen, und dass die beiden Clavusnervcn vor 



