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broadens out, apex sharply pointed turned inward and upward, from 

 inner surface near base arises a quadrate process about twice as long 

 as broad. 



§ Anal segment cylindrical, as long as broad, apex of abdomen 

 (genital area) cylindrically produced. 



Leiigtli 2.5min. ; tciiiuen Oiuin. 



Hab. Bendoredjo, Java, on ])alius; Pasocrocaii, .Ia\;i. oii 

 siigar-eane (Miiir) ; Bnitenzorg, Java, on palm (Leofnians). 



In collecting- I passed over this species for moesta and it was 

 onlv by chance that I secured a series. 



(2) dolosa sp. n. 



^ This species differs from pseiKloiiioestd by its darker thorax and 

 by the markings on tegmina and wings being still more reduced, in 

 radial cell it only forms three bands, one near base, one over cross- 

 vein and one at apex; on hind margin the markings form a series of 

 fine dot at apices of veins; wings hyaline, veins dark, fuscous mark 

 on apex. 



$ Anal segment cylindrical, much shorter than broad, apex of 

 abdomen (genital area) flattened, sunk between two small lateral 

 plates. In the shape of genital area this is nearer to iintcMtii than to 

 [jsciidomoesta. 



Length 2.5inm. ; tegmen 6mni. 



Hab. Bendoredjo, Java, on palms; Pasoeroean, Java, on 

 sngar-cane (Mnir, March). 



P. feiu'stmta (Bier.) is intermediate l)et\vceii these two 

 species. 



Paeaproutista Mnir. 



At the time of erecting this genns I had donbts as to the 

 value of its chief characteristic, the fnrcation of the third 

 median sector. Experience has shown its constancy; of its 

 ntility there can be no donbt for the facies of the species of this 

 and some allied genera are so similar that any good distinction 

 is an advantage. Whether it shoidd l)e considered as generic 

 or snbgeneric is a matter of personal opinion. In alhlcosta, 

 pseudoalhicosta and hrunnia the keels of face do not meet till 

 below eyes or thereabout and are not so closely coiitignous. 



(1) (lib i cost a sp. n. 



^ Dark stramineous or light brown, clypeus and abdomen red 

 slightly fuscous, veins red, some eight or nine small white spots in 



