1909.] W. L. Distant : Rhynchota Malayana. 175 



lyong. 15 mm. 



Hab.— S.-E. Borneo (Doherty; Coll. Dist.). 



Allied to P. aiiipla, Walk., but differing by the shorter vertex, 

 which in ampia is as long as the pronotum, very much more 

 strongly pilose, claval area strongl^^ wrinkled, and by the absence 

 of the red margin to vertex as in P. ampla. 



Genus Clovia. 



Clovia, Stal, Hem. Afr., iv, p. 75 (r866). 

 Type C. bigoti , Sign. 



Clovia humholdtiana , sp. nov. (PI. x, figs. 7, 7a.) 



Black or piceous ; a central longitudinal stramineous fascia 

 traversing the vertex, pronotum and scutellum ; tegmina with six 

 stramineous spots situate two in clavus — one at base elongate, the 

 other near middle transversely oblique — and four on coriaceous 

 area — two near costal margin and two on apical area ; face and 

 legs brownish, the posterior legs sometimes piceous ; lateral and 

 basal margins of face and a longitudinal fascia on each side of 

 sternum, stramineous ; vertex subequal in length to pronotum, 

 anteriorly somewhat obtusely, roundly, angularly produced, and 

 with an obscure, fine, transverse impression on disk ; vertex, prono- 

 tum and scutellum finely punctate, the pronotum also very finely 

 wrinkled ; face flattened though very slightly convex ; posterior 

 tibise with two spines ; tegmina densely, finely punctate. 



Long. 8 to 9 mm. 



Hab.— New Guinea ; Humboldt Bay (Doherty ; Brit. Mus.). 



Allied to C ornata, Walk, 



Clovia moresbyensis , sp. nov. (PI. x, figs. 9, 9a.) 



Vertex, pronotum and scutellum piceous-brown ; vertex with 

 a narrow, black, marginal line in front of eyes, this line inwardly 

 broadly margined with dull ochraceous ; pronotum with a narrow 

 transverse pale yellow line before middle ; face , abdomen 

 beneath and legs pale castaneous-brown ; sternum piceous ; basal 

 and lateral margins of face, a submarginal fascia on each side of 

 sternum, apex of clypeus, under surfaces and apices of femora and 

 abdominal segmental margins, ochraceous ; tegmina piceous-brown, 

 an oblique spot before middle of clavus not reaching claval suture 

 and extending over its inner margin a short way into the corium, 

 and two small spots in oblique series on apical area pale ochra- 

 ceous ; vertex about as long as pronotum, obtusely, angularly 

 produced anteriorly ; rostrum reaching the intermediate coxae ; 

 vertex, pronotum and scutellum very finely, transversely wrinkled ; 

 tegmina obscurely, densely, finely punctate ; posterior tibia? with 

 two spines. 



