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central fascia constricted near the middle, black. Abdomen above ocliraceous, sometimes greenish. Abdomen 

 beneath more or less suffused with blackish. Legs castaneous, with the coxae and femora streaked with 

 blackish, or legs dark castaneous, with the intermediate and posterior tibise and tarsi pale greenish. 



Tegmina jiale hyaline, the costal membrane pale castaneous ; an oblique transverse fuscous fascia 

 from end of radial area to apex of lower ulnar area, where it is more or less irregularly continued along 

 inner margin to base ; basal cell and base slightly suffused with pale brilliant ocliraceous or greenish. 

 Wings pale hyaline ; extreme base and lower basal margin of tegmina sanguineous. 



The face is obliquely concave ; the rostrum just reaches the intermediate coxje ; the anterior femora 

 in the female are not distinctly spined. 



Long. excl. tegm. ? , 15 to 18 millim. Exp. tegm. 45 to 50 millim. 



Hab. — Continental India : Sikkim (Calc. Mus.) ; Assam (Chennell — coll. Dist.) ; Naga Hills and 

 Margherita (Doherty — coll. Dist.) ; Mungpoo in Bengal (coll. Dist.). Burma : Momeit (Doherty — coll. Dist.) ; 

 Eangoon and Charin Cheba (Fea — Genoa Mus.). Malayan Archipklago, Java (Brit. Mus.). 



Of thirteen species now in my own collection all belong to the female sex, and I am 

 unable to figm-e or describe the opercnla of the male. 



4. Mogannia doriae. (Tab. XIV., figs. 11, a, h.) 



Moi/Kiinia doricB, Distant, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genoa, ser. 2a, vol. vi. p. 520 (1888). 



? . Body above shining brownish-ocliraceous. Head with the anterior margins pitchy, the basal area 

 castaneous. Pronotum with the anterior and posterior margins very pale ocliraceous, and with a large 

 castaneous patch on each lateral area. Mesonotum pale ocliraceous, with two central and contiguous 

 obconical pitchy spots at anterior margin, from which a similarly coloured linear fascia extends to base, 

 where it is widened in front of the basal cruciform elevation, and with a wide castaneous fascia, narrowed 

 posteriorly, on each lateral area. Abdomen above brownish-ocliraceous, with two pale pilose spots on each 

 side near base, and the margin of the penultimate segment also palely pilose. Body beneath brownish- 

 ochraceous ; the face, anterior femora and tibiae, intermediate and posterior femora, rostrum, and meso- and 

 metasternums, castaneous ; intermediate and iwsterior tibise and tarsi pale ochraceous. Abdomen beneath 

 as above. 



Tegmina and wings pale hyaline ; the first with the basal third of venation ochraceous, remaining 

 two-thirds fuscous ; the costal membrane castaneous ; wings with the venation fuscous, ochraceous at 

 basal area. 



The rostrum reaches the intermediate coxae ; the face is extremely pointed and conical nt base. 



Long. excl. tegm. ? , 14 millim. Exp. tegm. 40 millim. 



Hab. — Malayan Archipelago, Borneo, Sarawak: (Doria and Beccari — Genoa Mus.). 



6. Mogannia sesioides. (Tab. XIV., figs. 12, a, h.) 



Mogannia sesioides, Walker, .Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. vol. x. p. 95, n. 30 (1867). 



Body above brownish-ochraceous ; mesonotum either totally ochraceous, or with the lateral margins 

 and basal cruciform elevation ochraceous; posterior margin of pronotum and posterior segmental margins 

 ochraceous. Body beneath, and intermediate and posterior legs, pale ochraceous ; face, lateral margins of 

 sternum, and anterior legs, pale castaneous. (Lateral margins of abdomen in a female specimen now 

 before me reddish-ochraceous, with fuscous spots.) 



Tegmina and wings pale hyaline ; tegmina with the costal membrane and postcostal area castaneous;. 

 basal third pale ochraceous, with a narrow darker outer margin. 



