668 Mr. W. L. Distant's Additions to a 



5 . Opercula almost meeting interiorly, their lateral and posterior 

 margins oblique, tlieir apices reaching the base of the second 

 abdominal segment. 



Long. excl. tegm. $ and $ . 25 millim. Exp. tegm. 75 millim. 



Hob. India ; Mussooree — Dehra Dun {P. W. Mackinnon 

 —18-6-1903). 



Platypleura makarja, sp. n. (PI. XXIX, fig. 4, a, h.) 



9 • Head, pronotum, and mesonotum brownish-ochraceous ; pro- 

 notum with two broken and centrally subobsolete longitudinal lines, 

 and the incisures, black ; mesonotum with two anterior linear 

 obconical spots, on each side of which is a much smaller angulated 

 spot, and a small round spot in front of the anterior angles of the 

 basal cruciform elevation, black ; abdomen above black, the basal 

 central area and margins of the segments brownish-ochraceous ; body 

 beneath and legs brownish-ochraceous. 



Tegmina opaque, brownish-ochraceous, with greyish mottlings, 

 the most conspicuous of which are two spots in the radial area, a 

 central spot in the two upper ulnar areas, a large central spot on 

 apical margin, and another spot near inner angle, the apical margin 

 is distinctly infuscate ; wings castaneous, the margins, abdominal 

 area, veins on basal area, and ray-like spots on outer area pale 

 piceous, a grey spot on posterior margin. 



Head including eyes about as broad as anterior margin of meso- 

 notum ; lateral margins of pronotum angularly ampliated ; rostrum 

 reaching the second abdominal segment. 



Long. excl. tegm. $ . 29 millim. Exp. tegm. 90 millim. 



Hab. Congo; Bopoto. 



I have not yet seen the male of this species. I am 

 indebted to my friend Dr. Heath for the type. 



Platypleitra adouma, sp. n. (PI. XXIX, fig. 2, a, &.) 



$. Head, pronotum, and mesonotum brownish-ochraceous; head 

 with the area of the ocelli, a radiating line to eyes and two frontal 

 spots, piceous ; pronotum with two central longitudinal lines — fused 

 posteriorly, and the incisures black ; mesonotum with two central 

 obconical spots on anterior margin, on each side of these a smaller 

 sjjot, a linear spot followed by a rounded spot on lateral areas, and 

 a spot in front of anterior angles of the basal cruciform elevation, 

 black ; abdomen above dark castaneoiis, the apical margins of some 

 of the segments ochraceous ; body beneath and legs brownish- 

 ochraceous. 



