390 On Rhyncliota from the Aru Islands. 



apical angles of corium narrowly prodiiced ; scutellum trans- 

 versely wrinkled; margins of tiie connexivum granulose, 

 slightly nodulose at the segmental incisures; second segment 

 o£ the abdomen beneath with a large and prominent tubercle 

 on each side; anterior and intermediate femora with a distinct 

 spine near apex and slightly longer than the tibire ; posterior 

 femora long, robust, slightly curved, attenuated at base, 

 posterior tibiae moderately dilated, with a strong spine at 

 inner surface before apex ; membrane not quite reaching 

 abdominal apex. 



Long., c?, 35 mm. 



Allied to M. limbativentris, Stal, from New Guinea, but 

 rostrum not reaching the intermediate coxae : the species a 

 considerably larger one ; the lateial sternal fascia broken up 

 .distinctly into three segmental spots; abdominal pale lateral 

 margin absent above, beneath only visible on tlie first and 

 second segments. 



Genus Sawda. 



Sawda, Dist. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xv. p. 62 (1905). 

 Type, S. niiinica, Dist. 



Sawda frocfffatd, sp. n. 



Head and pronotura greenish ochraceou.«, the latter with a 

 pale, narrow, longitudinal fascia, with darker margins and 

 widened anteriorly and posteriorly ; mesonotum brownish 

 olivaceous, with two obcouical black-margined spots ex- 

 tending about halfway from anterior margin, on each side of 

 which is a shorter, more angulate, dark-margined spot, the 

 dark margins not meeting apically ; abdomen above casta- 

 neous, more or less finely greyishly pilose ; face, sternum, 

 and legs virescent ; opercula ochraceous ; abdomen beneath 

 stramineous; tegmina and wings hyaline, the veins greenish 

 or ochraceous; tegmina with the transverse veins at the 

 apices of the ulnar areas inf'uscated, and the apices of the 

 longitudinal veins to apical areas also infuscated, some of the 

 veins on basal half of tegmina also distinctly marked with 

 dark fuscous; opercula almost reaching the base of the fifth 

 abdominal segment, well separated internally, moderately 

 convex, lateral margins concavely sinuate, apical margins 

 obliquely truncate, inner margins nearly straight. 



Long., ^ 35 mm.; exp. tegm. 108 mm. 



Allied to S.ffestroei, Dist., from New Guinea, but a smaller 

 species, the opercula more obliquely truncate at their 

 apices, &c. 



