360 Dr. J. L. Hancock's Third Paper on the 



Ridley to the Oxford University Museum. This specimen 

 is nearly wholly black, the first and second legs banded with 

 fuscous, while the black hind tibiae present a white 

 annulation behind the knees. 



E. pulvillus, sp. nov. (Plate XLIX, figs. 4 and 4a.) 



A slender species allied to Paratettix hhtricus, Bol. Head e.\- 

 serted ; vertex equal in width to one of the eyes, truncate, middle 

 carinate, frontal costal in profile above little subangulate produced 

 beyond the eyes, and between the antennae more subarcuate pro- 

 duced, rather narrowly silicate. Pronotum punctate-granulate, con- 

 stricted before the shoulders, and between the shoulders only slightly 

 widened ; anterior pronotal carinae short and parallel ; median 

 carina percurrent, compressed, slightly undulate forward and 

 behind the shoulders, posterior process extended far beyond the 

 femoral apices ; posterior angles of the lateral lobes subacute. Elytra 

 subovate and externally strongly reticulate ; wings caudate extend- 

 ing beyond the pronotal apex two millimeters. Anterior and middle 

 femora elongate, nearly entire, but the inferior carinae of middle 

 femora scarcely undulate ; posterior femora slender, superior carina 

 serrulate terminating in a denticle before the knee, the external 

 area at the middle plainly bituberculate ; posterior tibiae ventially 

 infuscate and the apical fourth fuscous; first ai'ticles of posterior 

 tarsi equal in length to the third, the first two basal pulvilli acute- 

 spiculate, the third nearly as long as the first and second together, 

 and flat below. Body below sparingly hirsute. Colour of body 

 testaceous marked with black on the disk of the pronotum. 



Entire length of body, $ 15 mm.; pronotum, 12 mm. ; posterior 

 femora, 5*5 mm. 



One example from Malay Peninsula, Selangor, River- 

 side Estate, collected and presented to the Oxford Univers- 

 ity Museum by H. C. Pratt. * 



E. aTigustivertex, Bol. 



Three examples from N.E. Rhodesia in the Oxford 

 University Museum — two from Upper Kalungwisi Valley, 

 4200 ft., Nos. 2159 and 21G3, September 11,1908; one 

 from Lofu River, 3500 ft., No. 2155, August 17, 1908, 

 collected and presented by S. A. Neave. 



