78 p. C'AMKHON, ON RO^FK NKW fiEXKliA AND .SPKCTER OF 



basal ; disco-cubitHl broken by a situnip. Antenna; dilated beyond 

 the middle, narrowed at the apex. Transverse median nervure 

 placed behind the basal. 



There is a short, deep furrow bordering the middle of the 

 mesonotum at the base. Temples short. Occiput roundly deeply 

 incised ; the ocelli are placed on the extreme edge of' the 

 vertex. There is a distinct malar space, furrowed in the middle. 

 Apex of clypeus broad, transverse. Labrum hidden. Cerci long-, 

 reaching almost to the middle of ovipositor. Ventral keel 

 extending to apex of 3''^ segment. 



Comes near to Platiilahus^ from which it may be known by 

 the quite flat scutellum, by the dilated, Joppa-\\\e antenna?, 

 by the areola being longer than wide, not wider than long ; 

 the 2 lateral areœ are distinctly separated, there being also 

 a petiolar area. 



Joppomorpha carbiiscutis sp. nov. 



Black ; the head except the middle of front and vertex 

 broadly and the occiput, the top and bottom of the prothorax 

 except in the middle, scutellar keels, sides and apex of scutel- 

 lum, postscutellum, base of metanotum behind the areola, the 

 sides of the apical slope broadly, the top of the marks obli- 

 quely narrowed, broadly dilated laterally on to the pleurae, 

 the tubercles, the lower half of mesopleuraî, the apex narrowly, 

 a triangular mark behind the metanotal spiracles, united 

 below to a longer and narrow spot, which becomes gradually 

 wider; the l^t abdominal segment to near the middle, its apex 

 broadly, the mark incised in the middle at the base, the apical 

 third of the 2"^^ ; a narrower line, incised in the middle, on 

 the 3'<\ and narrower lines, dilated backwards below, that on 

 the ()''i broader than the band on the 5^'', a broader band on 

 the 7''' and 8"', pale yellow. Four front legs fulvous, their 

 coxa; and trochanters yellow; the liind legs black; the inner- 



