174 ■ Mr. W. L. Distaiit's Nutes o?i 



STRIDULANTIA. 

 Genus Platypleura, Amyot and Serville. 



flail/pleura andamana, n. sp. 



Tawny, pubescent. Face moderately convex, trans- 

 versely sulcated, with a deep central longitudinal furrow ; 

 luteous, with two short black basal lines on each side 

 of vertex. A narrow black fascia, extending from eye to 

 eye, immediately in front of ocelli. Eyes brilliant, casta- 

 neous, broadly pilose behind. Pronotum deeply furrowed, 

 with frontal edge and two small fovefe, placed close to- 

 gether near centre of hind border, pitchy. Mesonotum, 

 with two large obconical spots, extending backwards from 

 fore border, midway between Avhich there is a discal dart- 

 shaped mark, and two dots wide apart near hind border, 

 black; there are also two other somewhat obscure black 

 marks situated on fore border on outer sides of the large 

 obconical spots. Metathoracic cross, with its fore borders, 

 pitchy. Abdomen above with segmental sutures black, 

 clothed with luteous pubescence ; anal appendage pitchy, 

 castaneous. Underside with legs ochraceous. Rostrum 

 extending to second abdominal segment ; its tip, two spots 

 on the sixth abdominal segment, knees and tarsi, piceous. 



Tegmina dark brown, with pale semi-opaque mark- 

 ings, especially on the apical half. Basal third thickly 

 covered with pale pubescence, and containing five dark- 

 brown spots, of which the most prominent are two which 

 are subcostal, situated beyond the medium of this space, and 

 a third one below the basal of those two spots. Remainder 

 of tegmina less pubescent, with a number of whitish spots, 

 of Avhich the most prominent are a transverse row stretch- 

 ing across from near costa to inner border, immediately 

 beyond the basal third pubescent space ; another more 

 waved row beyond middle confluent near costa, where 

 they are very visible belotv; a subapical marginal row of 

 five whitish oblong spots, arranged on the nervures of 

 which the apical ends are dull brown; and an outer 

 marginal row of six dark-brown spots, also arranged on 

 the nervures of which the lowest is the largest; a dull 

 whitish fusiform spot on inner angle, which is very dis- 

 tinct on underside. Wings castaneous, with a dark- 

 brown marginal border, and some suffused dark-brown 

 discal streaks extending across the Avings, 



$. Long. 22 mill.; exp. tcgm. 84 mill. 



Andaman Isles. 



