New Malayan Rhynchota. 395 



the veins brownish-ocliraceous ; head a little longer than breadth 

 between eyes, centrally sulcate between the ocelli, in the ^ this 

 sulcation distinctly black ; pronotum with the furrows profound 

 and with a central longitudinal sulcation the edges of which, 

 particularly in $ , are distinctly ridged, between tlie furrows the 

 surface is somewhat rugiilose ; niesonotum obscurely, longitudinally 

 mottled with brownish-ochraceous ; abdomen above in both sexes 

 distinctly centrally longitudinally ridged ; front compressed, finely 

 centrally longitudinally sulcate ; rostrum almost reaching apex of 

 intermediate coxae ; opercula in ^ , small only extending slightly 

 over the anterior edge of the cavities, obliquely directed inwardly, 

 t?ieir apices narrowed and rounded. 



Long. excl. tegm. $. and 9- 26 mm. Exp. tegm. 75 to 76 mm. 



Hab. British New Guinea; Ekeikei (Pra?;;^, Brit. Mus.). 

 A short robust species and peculiar by the pale purplish- 

 brown tegmina. 



Lemheja crassa, sp. n. (PI. X, fig. 7 a.) 



$ . Body and legs dull ochraceous ; head and pronotum (excluding 

 basal margin and posterior lateral angles) brownish-ochraceous ; 

 tegmina subhyaline, talc-like, finely wrinkled, veins, costal mem- 

 brane and post costal area ochraceous, the veins beyond basal area 

 spotted with fuscous, inner posterior basal margin rosy-brown, about 

 apical half of tegmina and apical half of clavus, thickly, minutely 

 spotted with fuscous; wings hyaline, the veins mostly ochraceous, 

 the extreme base rosy-brown ; body short and broad ; head longi- 

 tudinally sulcate between the ocelli ; pronotum moderately centrally 

 longitudinally sulcate, the incisures profound; face very strongly 

 laterally compressed, the lateral transverse striations weak ; rostrum 

 reaching the intermediate coxae, its apex black; abdomen above 

 moderately round, not prominently centrally longitudinally ridged. 



V . Long, exch tegm. $ • 32 mm. Exp. tegm. 92 to 102 mm. 



Hah. German New Guinea; K. Wilhelms-Land, 

 Bongu (Brit. Mus.). British New Guinea; Dilo (Coll. 

 Dist.). 



Family CERCOPIDAE. 



Genus Philagra. 



Chalepus, Walk., List. Horn. Ill, p. 731 (1851), nom praeocc. 

 Philagra, Stai., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (37 I, p. 593 



(1862). 



Type. P. hastata, Walk. 



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