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apical margin at the apices of tlie veins, on the basal area 

 the transverse veins are distinctly infuscated ; wings hyaline, 

 the venation pitchy browti ; anterior angles of vertex in front 

 of eyes distinctly, shortly, angularly produced ; pronotum 

 with a central, longitudinal, carinate line ; mesonotuni tri- 

 carinate, the lateral carinations directed inwardly at anterior 

 margin, and also connected with it by an outer short carinate 

 line. 



Long., excl. tegm., 5 mm.; exp. tegm. 18 mm. 



Allied to A. basigera, Walk. 



Genus Sephena. 



Sephena, Melicli. Ann. Hofmus. Wien, xvii. p. 12'5 (1903). 

 Type, S. spargula, Walk. 



Sephena puncfulosa. 



punduhsa, Walk, MS. 



Head, pronotum, and mesonotum pale ochraceous ; vertex 

 transversely speckled with sanguineous ; pronotum with a 

 central longitudinal line and spots on lateral areas san- 

 guineous ; mesonotuni with three discal longitudinal lines and 

 marginal spots sanguineous; abdomen, body beneath, and 

 legs very pale ochraceous, more or less cretaceously pilose ; 

 anal segment of abdomen marked above with sanguineous ; 

 tegmina greyish white, speckled with sanguineous on basal 

 area and clavus, with numerous small black spots arranged 

 principally in two upper longitudinal series, two transversely 

 oblique discal series, and two or three apical marginal series; 

 wings cretaceous white; face distinctly, centrally, longitu- 

 dinally carinate, the lateral margins sharply reflexed ; meso- 

 notum tricarinate; anterior angles of head in front of eyes 

 subacute. 



Long., excl. tegm., 5-6 mm.; exp. tegm. 17-19 mm. 



This is a very variable species ; in some specimens tlie 

 ground-colour of the body and tegmina is pale virescent, and 

 in the latter case the tegminal spots are castaneous rather 

 than black. 



A single specimen labelled by Walker " jpunctulosa" is in 

 the British Museum, and bears the locality " Cer." (Ceram), 

 but it has evidently never been described. 



Genus Clovia. 

 Clovia, Stai, Hem. Afr. iv. p. 75 (1866). 



Type, C. higoli, Sign. 



