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Leptaleoccra gen nov. 



Type coccinea. 



In profile vertex and face forming two curves ; eyes long and 

 narrow, the hind margin being deeply emarginate ; edge of face 

 subparallel to Q(\gQ of eye. Vertex narrow and angular, base 

 roundly emarginate, without keel ; sides with very deep keels 

 meeting at apex ; face linear, keels contiguous right up to apex ; 

 clypeus about as long as face, rounded, obscurely carinate in 

 middle, no lateral carinae ; labium short, about one-third the 

 length of clypeus ; antennae large, flat, thin, slightly thickened 

 round edges ; pronotum very short, projecting well into excavated 

 vertex ; scutellum about as long as broad, rounded anteriorly, ob- 

 tusely angular behind, lateral angles behind middle, no carinae. 

 Tegmina long and narrow, subcosta and radia forking well be- 

 yond middle, subcostal cell small, cubitus forking before middle, 

 four median sectors in apical third of tegmina, last one very 

 small. 



(1) L. coccinea sp. nov. ( <5 ). 

 Pis. II f. 5, III f. 15. 



Thorax, legs and abdomen reddish-yellow, eyes black ; tegmina 

 and wings scarlet, some darker and more opaque spots in cells 

 between end of clavus and subcostal cell, also in apical median 

 cells. 



Habitat : Teloc Ayer. 



Length of body Z.7 mm. ; tegmen, 5.4 mm. 



Hcronax, Kirkaldy. 



H. S. P. A. Ent. Bull. I 431. 



Fenuahala, Distant. A.M.N.H. (7), XIX 411. 



(1 ) H. paniassius Kirk. ( $ ). 



This species, which is the type of the genus, has the base of 

 face slightly convex, the point of junction of face and vertex an- 

 gulate in profile. Hind margin of last abdominal ventral plate of 

 female obtusely angular, the sides of the production starting from 

 lateral margin, slightly sinuous, apex finely pointed and turned 

 upward, finely grooved from apex to near basal margin, the an- 

 terior styles long and finely pointed. Until I know the shape of 

 the last abdominal ventral plate and the profile of the head of H. 

 (Fenuahala) infiiscata Distant, I cannot accept Kirkaldy's sy- 

 nonymy of it with parnassius. 



