HILDA. lOo 



JlemispJirrrias cinchis,'MeVich. I.e. p. 91. Burma: Karen-iii. 

 IlemispJuerius hijendtms, Melich. 1. c. p. 96. Burma. 



3269. Hemisphserius noctis, sp. n. 



Above shining-black ; eyes ocbraceous ; face black ; clypeus 

 ochraceous with two darker longitudinal fascia) ; body beneath 

 and legs ochraceous with some darker uiottlings ; tegmina thickly 

 finely punctate ; face broad, much narrower at anterior margin 

 than before clypeus, posteriorly about as broad as long. 



Length inch tegui. 4 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon ; JNIaha lUupalaraa (./. C F. Ftv/er). 



3270. Hemisphaerius fusco-clypeatiis, sji. n. 



Pale dull ochraceous ; eyes and a discal spot to tegmina 

 black ; clypeus fuscous brown ; body beneath and legs brownish 

 ochraceous ; anterior and intermediate tibiae and tarsi blackish ; 

 face about as long as broad, mucli narrower anteriorly than 

 posteriorly, anterior and posterior margins truncate ; the tegmina 

 immediately above the body reflect its shadow and there appear 

 distinctly darker. 



Length inch tegm. '■'> niillini. 



Hah. Ceylon ; Peradeniya (.7. C. F. Fnjcr). 



3271. Hemisphaerius atromaculatiis. sp. n. 



Vertex of head and pronotum testaceous ; mesonotum black 

 with a central longitudinal ochraceous fascia; face testaceous; 

 clypeus ochraceous with its anterior margin black ; body beneath 

 and legs dark ochraceous ; tegmina ochraceous, with four large 

 discal spots, claval margin, and two antei'ior sublateral fasciae 

 black ; vertex finely punctate at base ; pronotum linelv trans- 

 versely striate. 



Length inch tegm. 4 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon; Peradeniya {E. E. Green). 



Genus HILDA. 



Isthmia, Walk. List Horn, iii, p. 7;>2 (ISol); Stdl, Hem. Afr. iv, 



p. 218 (1866) ; iioni. praeocc. 

 Hilda, KirTx. Entomohx/ist, 1900, p. 243, ii. nom. 

 Egropa, Melich. (vol. iii, p. 368). 



Type, H. undata. Walk., an Ethiopian species. 



Distrihution. Ethiopian, Oriental, and Malayan Regions. 



Body subobloug, depressed ; head (includuig eyes) narrower than 

 the pronotum, verte.x broader than long, anteriorly rounded, 

 behind eyes distinctly callose, the anterior margin flattened, acute. 



