68G Mr. W. L. Distant's 



carination, its lateral margins reflexed ; posterior tibiaj with a strong 

 spine near base, and a larger spine a little beyond centre. 



Long. excl. tegm. 15 to 16 inillini. Exp. tegin. 35 to 43 niillim. 



Habitat. Burma, Hsipaw (L. de Niceville— Brit. Mus.), 

 Karen Hil's (Dolierty— Coll. Dist.). 



Phymatostctha hractcata, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, scutelluni, and body beneath pitchy-ldack ; 

 abdomen aliove dark indigo-blue ; legs dark castaneous ; a broad 

 central longitudinal fascia to head and a transverse discal series of 

 four rounded spots to pronotum, ochraceous; tegmina brownisli- 

 ochraceous; wings pale brownish-hyaline. 



Pronotum somewhat coarsely punctate and sulirugulose, with a 

 central longitudinal carination, i:s lateral margins reflexed, iis 

 posterior margin concavely sinuate; face broad, not sulcate, with 

 two distinct tubercles at apex ; posterior femora with a short spine 

 near base and a very strong spine at about one-third from apex. 



Long. excl. tegm. 12 millim. Exp. tegm. 32 millim. 



Habitat. North Borneo (Atkinson Coll. — Brit. Mus.). 

 A species without any at present known near ally. 



SYNONYMICAL NOTES. 

 Phymatostetha stdlii. 



Phymatostetha stalii, Butl., Cist. Ent., vol. i, p. 267, u. 7 



(1874). 

 Cosnwscarta sikki/nensis, Atkins., Journ. As. Soc. Beng., 



1888, p. 335. 



Cercojjis j^'^t'^^ctifascia, Walk., Journ. Linn. Soc, vol. x, 



p. 228, n. 326 (1867). 

 Phymatostetha inuidifascia, Butl., Cist. Ent., vol. i, p. 266, 



n. 2 (1874). 



This species belongs to the Subfam. Aphrophorin^. 



