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of head. Scales very small, 20 between oi-igin of soft dorsal 

 and lateral Hue ; latter formed of a few tubules widely- 

 separated from one another. Brownish, with dark lines 

 forming a wide-meshed network ; dorsal, anal, and caudal 

 fins blackish, with round white spots more or less regularly 

 arranged, and a white border. 



Total length 190 mm. 



Two specimens from Sierra Leone, presented to the 

 Natural History Museum by the Liverpool School of Tropical 

 Medicine. 



LXX. — Descriptions of new Genera and Species of Oriental 

 Homoptera. By W. L. Distant. 



Fam. Fulgoridse. 



Subfam. Dehbinm. 



Phenice pullata, sp. n. 



Head and thorax above piceous, pronotum black ; body 

 beneath black; metasternum and legs stramineous; coxge 

 piceous; abdomen above black, spotted with ochraceous; 

 tegmina dark fuscous, the costal area white, with large dark 

 fuscous spots, the second from base largest and longitudinal, 

 the others transverse, the inner area broadly and irregularly 

 white, the fuscous extending through it to inner margin near 

 base and before middle, two white spots on apical margin, the 

 lowermost large, the upper one small, the apices of the veins 

 on inner margin are fuscous ; wings fuliginous, with the 

 veins fuscous, the posterior marginal area suffused with 

 white; antenna3 ochraceous. 



Long., excl. tegm., 3 mm. ; exp. tegm. 19 mm. 



Hah. N.W. Ind. Prov. ; Kumaon District. 



Allied to P. mcesta, Westw., but larger, markings of 

 tegmina different, &c. 



Phenice f err uginea, sp. n. 



Vertex of head and pronotum sordidly greyish ; mesonotum 

 fuscous brown, with the lateral and basal margins (the latter 

 broadly), a central straight longitudinal carination, and a 

 broader waved longitudinal fascia on each lateral area sordidly 

 greyish or very pale virescent ; abdomen above fuscous 



