444 Mr. W. L. Distant 07i 



Lateral areas of face at region of antennae entire,, not 

 foveate. 



Hub. Mysol. 



Penthimia mudonensis, sp. n. 



Body above eastaneous ; vertex of head with the anterior 

 and basal margins^ a central longitudinal line, and the eyes 

 black ; scutellum with three ochraceous spots, one near 

 middle of each lateral margin and the third apical ; margins 

 of clavus narrowly black ; more than apical third of tegmen 

 dull ochraceous, tessellated with black cellular rings varying 

 in size, prominent of which are spots in frontal margin of 

 the apical area continued up the lateral margin of tegmen ; 

 at extreme apex the colour is greyish, semiopaque, with a 

 blackish spot in the apical cells ; body beneath eastaneous ; 

 face, cheeks, clypeus, disk of sternum, sutfusions to femora, 

 and transverse central basal spots to abdomen beneath black; 

 vertex of head convexly rounded in front, in length nearly 

 half the breadth between eyes ; pronotuni convex, wrinkled 

 transversely ; posterior tibiae longly strongly pilose. 



Long. 5|^ mm. 



Hab. Tenasserim ; Mudon-Amherst Distr. (^Annandale, 

 Ind. Mus.). 



A distinct species by the three pale spots to the scutellum, 

 the large tessellate apical area to the tegmina, the short 

 vertex, &c. 



Penthimia nitida, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, scutellum, and tegmina (excluding apical 

 area) shining black, apical area of tegmen greyishly sub- 

 hyaline, outwardly and inwardly ochraceous, more or less 

 extending upward to the opaque black area ; body beneath 

 black, the legs ochraceous, anterior femora basally suffused 

 with black ; head rounded in front, the anterior margin 

 somewhat acutely reflexed ; pronotum moderately convex, 

 slightly wrinkled, and sparingly coarsely punctate ; scutellum 

 opaquely black, thickly finely punctate ; tegmina (excluding 

 apical area) coarsely punctate ; posterior legs suffused with 

 black, posterior tibiae strongly spinose, the tarsi ochraceous. 



Long. 4 mm. 



Hab. Burma; Moulmein (Brit. Mus.). 



A species to be recognized by the strongly punctured 

 upper surface ; it may be placed near P. erebus, Dist. 



