oftlte Homoptcrous Jamily Fulfjorkla. ^11 



fuscous spots, the central pair largest. Abdomen black, apical half 

 with a double series of pale discal spots, and a series of similar 

 spots on the lateral margins. Head beneath, sternum, and legs 

 ochraceous ; femora and anterior and intermediate tibiae annulated 

 with fuscous. Abdomen beneath black. Tegmina with about basal 

 two-thirds ochraceous, irregularly mottled with darker brown ; 

 apical third fuscous, with the reticulated venation ochraceous. 

 Wings pale hyaline, the venation fuscous, the basal third blackish, 

 containing a pale greenish white fasciate spot. Disk of front dis- 

 tinctly subrugose ; anterior margin of pronotum with a distinct 

 central notch. 



Long. excl. tegm., 17 millim. Exp. tegm., 42 millim. 



Hah. Malayan Archipelago ; Batchian. 



B. iiallescens can at once be distinguished from the 

 other two species described by Stal by the differently 

 coloured base of the wings. 



Desudaha maculata, n. sp. 



Body above, with the head, thorax, and base of abdomen, black ; 

 remainder of abdomen and the eyes ochraceous. Body beneath 

 ochraceous ; the head, prosternum, and legs, black ; nostrum 

 fuscous, its base black. Tegmina black, the apical third fuscous, 

 the black portion ornamented with seven to nine bright red spots, 

 the extreme base also sireaked with the same colour. Wings 

 hyaline, with the venation fuscous, the basal third dark fuscous, 

 containing a large basal reddish patch streaked with greyish. 



Long. excl. tegm., 13 milhm. Exp. tegm., 34 millim. 



Hob. Australia ; Peak Downs. 



Allied to D.jjsittacus, Walk., but at once separated by 

 the spotted tegmina and the larger fuscous basal area to 

 the wing. 



Subfam. DICTYOPHAEIN^. 



Dichoptcra nuhila, n. sp. 

 Body above dark ochraceous. Head, with the anterior and 

 lateral margins of vertex, a small spot at anterior angles, and two 

 central fasciae to same, black ; a central fascia to front, a small 

 spot at each anterior angle, and a lateral fascia in front of eyes, 

 black. Pronotum, with the central keel, margined with two pairs 

 of elongate spots, the anterior margin and irregular discal mark- 

 ings, black. Mesonotum, with the space between the three central 

 carinse darker in hue, and containing four ochraceous spots mar- 

 gined with black, a large black spot on anterior margin, and a 



