SELENOCEPIIALUS. 291 



" Body oblong ; head short, broadl}- rounded at the apex, apical 

 margin sulcated ; vertex flat, horizontal ; face dilated, depressed 

 at base, lateral margins beneath the eyes slightly sinuate ; ocelli 

 situate in the sulcation at the apical margin of the head at or near 

 the eyes ; pronotum transverse, anteriorly rounded ; scutellura a 

 little broader then long, triangular ; tegmina extending beyond the 

 abdominal apex, membranaceous, apically margined, valvate behind 

 clavus, apical cells four or five ; legs moderate, posterior tibiae a 

 little compressed, densely spinulose." (Sttd.) 



2538. Selenocephalus egregius, Stal, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1864, p. GG ; 



Si/pi. torn. cit. 1880, p. 62, t. ii, f. .')2 ; Atkins. J. A. S. B. liv, 

 ]).' 105 (1885). 



" Light olive-green, smooth, head with vermillion-red spots, 

 pronotum and scutellum glossy. Vertex very little broader than 

 the pronotum, rounded in front, not longer in the middle than 

 towards the eyes, with a biarcuated band of vermillion, margin 

 with a slight groove, ocelli a little remote from the eyes ; face with 

 the sutures concave, convex at tip, weakly impressed in front ; 

 lobes much rounded, gen?e broad, apex convex, a little sinuate in 

 front of the subocular piece ; pronotum two and a half times 

 broader than long, three times longer than vertex and with a 

 vermillion band in front which starting from middle of anterior 

 mai-gin proceeds obliquely towards middle of lateral margins where 

 it terminates in a round spot ; scutellum broader than long with 

 four round spots at base, two lateral towards the transverse strife 

 and the apex, vermillion; tegmina hyaline, golden-yellow with 1:he 

 costal margin strong and vermillion to beyond the middle, veins 

 blackish, with the transverse veins blacker and with two lateral 

 spots along the border, three at the suture and the extremity, 

 black ; wings slightly infuscate with a paler space in the supple- 

 mentary cellule; body and legs yellow-olivaceous, with deeper 

 shades at the base of the abdominal segments ; last ventral segment 

 in 2 scarcely longer than the preceding, emarginate in middle 

 with a median lobe, the sides very oblique, trdobate ; valvules 

 thick, round, pubescent at the extremity ; hairs yellow at base, 

 black at tip ; oviduct blackish, just extending beyond the 

 valvules." (Signorct.) 



Length 2 ^ millim. 



Hab. Burma. 



T have not seen this species. 



2539. Selenocephalus virescens, sp. n. 



Vertex and head beneath ocbraceous ; pronotum pale dull 

 olivaceous-green, its anterior margin ochraceous ; scutellum 

 ocbraceous ; tegmina pale dull olivaceous-green, costal margin and 

 upper apical area ochraceous ; sternum ochraceous ; abdomen 

 beneath and legs pale testaceous, abdomen usually with a central 



