372 MR. ROBERT SHELFORD ON* 



Prosoplecta QUADRIPLAGIATA Walk. (PI. XLVIII. fig. 14.) 



Prosoplecta quadriplagiata Walker, Cat. Blatt. Brit. Mus. 

 p. L89 (1868). 



3 . Head castaneous, antennae rufo-testaceous. Pronotum 

 piceous, smooth, nitid. Tegmina seriate-punctate, piceous, an 

 orange-rufous macula at the base, another in the centre of the 

 discoidal field. Wings fuscous. Abdomen above and beneath 

 rufous; supra-anal lamina transverse, carinate, apex emarginate ; 

 sub genital lamina as in P. trifaria. Cerci and legs rufous. 



Total length 9*5 nun.; length of tegmina 8mm.; pronotum 

 2'8 mm. x 4-f> mm. 



Batchian (Oxford Mus.. type, coll. Wallace). 



Somewhal resembles an Erotylid of the genus Aulacocheilus or 

 Cyrtomorphus. 



Prosoplecta nigra, sp. n. (PI. XLVIII. fig. 0.) 

 J. Head rufo-testaceous, antenna' testaceous. Pronotum cas- 

 taneous, impunctate, nitid, faintly striate transversely in the 

 middle of the anterior half. Tegmina very faintly punctate, 

 piceous, an orange rufous macula at the apex. Wings infus- 

 cated. Abdomen above and beneath rufous ; supra-anal lamina 

 transverse; sub-genital lamina as in the preceding species. 

 Cerci and legs rufous. 



Total length 9 mm.; length of tegmina 7-8 mm.; pronotum 

 2-9 mm. x 4*2 mm. 



Philippine Is. (Stockholm Mus., type, coll. Semper), 

 The species is closely allied to /'. ligata Br., and is probably a 

 mimic of some Chrysomelid beetle. 



Prosoplecta gutticollis Walk. (PI. XLVIII. fig. 7.) 

 Prosoplecta gutticollis Walker. Cat. Blatt. Brit. Mus. p. 189 

 (1868). 



2. Head rufo-castaneous, paler on the vertex; antennae tes 

 taceous, fuscous towards apex. Pronotum smooth, nitid, ochre- 

 OUS, lateral margins suhhyaline, five piceous maculae <>n the disc. 

 Tegmina seriate-punctate, piceous, wit h the following large ochre 

 ous maculae on each tegmen : — one in the mediastinal area, one 

 in the middle of the marginal area, one at the base of the tegmen 

 almost divided into two by a short piceous line on the humeral 

 angle, and at its lower interior extremity just touching a macula 

 in the middle of the discoidal field, a fifth macula near the apex 

 of the tegmina. Ahdomen above ochreous ; supra-anal lamina 

 triangular, cucullate, apex not emarginate. Ahdomen beneath 

 piceous. castaneous at ha.se ; sub-genital lamina semiorhicular, 

 ample. ( lerci and legs rufous. 



Total length 9*5 mm.; length of tegmina 8*5 mm.; pronotum 

 :H mm. x 5 mm. 



Ceram (Oxford Mus., type, coll. Wallace). 

 \'erv like a < loccinellid. 

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