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short and blunt tawny teeth ; wings with an exceedingly slight tawny tinge, tawny towards the base, bright 

 tawny along the fore border ; veins tawny, darker towards the tips ; cross veins darker. 



Second marginal areolet* nearly as long as the first; first cross vein very slightly curved, slanting, 

 forming a very obtuse angle, parted from the second by more than four times its length ; second slightly 

 curved, very slanting, forming a very obtuse angle, nearly twice the length of the first; third nearly 

 straight, very slanting, forming a slightly acute angle ; fourth nearly straight, slanting, forming a very 

 slightly acute angle, a little shorter than the third ; fifth curved, forming a slightly acute angle." 



Long. excl. tegm. ^ . 29 millim. Exp. tegm. 86 millim. Exp. prouot. angl. 19 millim. 



Hab. — East India (sic) ; (Brit Mus.). 



Nothing can be more unsatisfactory than such a habitat as "East India," and the proper 

 locahty of the species is still to be discovered. 



aa. Pronotal angles moderately prominent and acute. 



2. Poecilopsaltria canescens. (Tab. VIII., tig. 18, a, b.) 



Oxijideura canescens, Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. x. p. 83 (1867). 

 Platypleura (Oxypleura) canescms, Butl. Cist. Ent. i. p. 197, n. 50 (1874). 

 PhUypleura [Oxijpleura) acutipmnis, Butl. Cist. Eut. i. p. 195, n. 45 (1874). 



Head and pronotum ochraceous ; a spot at anterior angles of front, a transverse fascia between eyes 

 widened at area of ocelh, a small spot between oceUi and eyes, lateral margins of the pronotum and the 

 inner edge of the posterior margin (broken at centre) black. Mesonotum dark castaneous, with the following 

 black markings : — a central fascia widened in front of cruciform elevation, two obconical spots on anterior 

 margin and a longitudinal fascia on each lateral area. Abdomen castaneous, somewhat thickly clothed with 

 greyish pile. Body beneath and legs ochraceous ; a transverse fascia between eyes, central sulcation to face, 

 margins of the laterally dilated prosternum, a small spot at bases of opercula, and a spot at bases of 

 posterior (and sometimes also of intermediate) tibiae, black. 



Tegmina pale hyaline; the costal membrane and basal cell ochraceous, the venation brownish-ochraceous ; 

 the transverse veins at bases of third, fifth, and seventh apical areas, and the apices of the longitudinal 

 veins to apical areas, slightly infuscated. Wings hyaline, the venation ochraceous or brownish-ochraceous. 



The face is very strongly transversely striate, and its central sulcation is very broad. The rostrum 

 just passes the posterior coxae and reaches the central connecting angles of the opercula, which are broad 

 and short, not extending beyond the base of the abdomen. 



Long. excl. tegm. ,? , '23 millim. Exp. tegm. 82 millim. Exp. pronot. angl. 14 millim. 



Hab.— SuMATBA (V. Lansberg— Leyden Mus.). Banda (Wallace— Brit. Mus.). Timor Laut (Forbes 

 —coll. Dist.). Aru Islands (Wallace— Brit. Mus. ; Beccari— Genoa Mus.). 



The form described by Mr. Butler as P. (0.) acidipennis, is a sHght variety, but I 

 possess a specimen from Timor-Laut which is quite intermediate between that form and the 

 typical P. canescens, Walli. This species has evidently a wider distribution in the Malayan 

 Archipelago than our present collections enable us to describe. 



3. Poecilopsaltria calypso. (Tab. X., fig. 3, a, b.) 



Oxijpleura calypso, Kirby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1888, p. 553. 



This species is only known to the writer by the type in the British Museum (which 

 is here figured), and Mr. Kirby's description, which is here reproduced : — 



"Male. Black, with testaceous markings. Head black; front of vertex with a wide testaceous stripe 

 on each side, extending from the inside of the eye to the striated portion of the face. Longitudinal 



* Apical area. 



