352 MR. W. L. DISTANT ON RHYNCHOTA 
apex of radial area and reaching costal margin, extreme costal and apical margins 
ochraceous; wings fuliginous, the venation biack ; vertex with a central arched carina 
between the eyes; face tricarinate, the sublateral striations less distinct ; clypeus 
centrally carinate; mesonotum tricarinate, the lateral carinations curved but percurrent 
and connected with the anterior margin by an additional carinate line; abdomen 
centrally ridged ; tegmina with the costal membrane moderately broad, the transverse 
veins distinct and well separated. 
Long., excl. tegm., 7 mm. Exp. tegm. 25 mm. 
Utakwa River ; Base Camp, sea-level. 
Allied to E. discigutta Walk. described from the Key Islands. 
65. EvRICANIA SPLENDIDA. 
Ricania splendida Guér. Voy. ‘ Coquille, Zool. 11. p. 191, pl. x. fig. 10 (1830). 
Mimika and Wataikwa Rivers; Base and Canor Camps, Utakwa River. 
This species is also recorded from the Islands Dorey, Mysol, Key, and Sula. 
Genus VARCIA. 
Varcia Stal, Ofv. Vet -Ak. Forh. 1870, p. 769. 
Found in the Neotropical, Oriental, and Malayan regions. 
66. VARCIA SORDIDA. 
Varcia sordida Dist. Aun. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) iv. p. 336 (1909). 
Mimika River. 
Originally described from Aru. 
Subfamily Flatine. 
PAPUANELLA, gen. nov. 
Head including eyes narrower than pronotum, vertex broader than long, anteriorly 
triangularly acutely produced centrally and at anterivr lateral angles; face broad, a 
little longer than broad, behind eyes moderately angulate and then obliquely narrowed 
to clypeus, centrally longitudinally carinate, the lateral margins moderately laminately 
reflected, clypeus centrally carinate ; posterior legs mutilated in unique type; pronotum 
narrower at apex than at base, centrally carinate, the base angularly concave; 
mesonotum considerably longer than broad, obscurely tricarinate ; tegmina about one 
and a half times longer than greater breadth, apical margin truncate, posterior angle 
not produced, apical angle rounded, moderately transversely veined, apical veins 
furcate at their apices, costal membrane wider than apical area and rather thickly 
transversely veined, claval area granulose and with obscure transverse veins in its 
upper area; wings about as broad as tegmina. 
I place this genus in my division Nephesaria. 
