464 Mr. W. L. Distant on 



castaneous, the first with a centrally broken anterior ochra- 

 ceous margin, and the scutellum with its apex ochraceous ; 

 tegmina very dark castaneous, base of costal margin and the 

 anterior area ochraceous, somewhat maculately so on inner 

 and outer margins of claval area, a spot near middle of costal 

 margin, and a larger marginal spot a little before apex 

 greyish white ; body beneath imperfectly seen in carded 

 specimen ; legs ochraceous, apices of tarsi black ; head 

 roundly oblique, its greatest length about equal to that of 

 pronotum, which is very thickly and rather coarsely punctate ; 

 tegmina densely but more finely punctate ; apices of tarsi 

 black. 



Long. 4 mm. 



Hab. Pampai. 



Ptyelus panieanus, sp. n. 



Ochraceous, eyes black; tegmina with an oblique fascia 

 near middle and a subapical marginal spot greyish white ; 

 legs more or less ochraceous, with darker macular suffusions ; 

 tarsi very pale ochraceous, with their apices black; body 

 beneath imperfectly seen in carded specimens ; head obliquely 

 rounded, about as long as middle of pronotum ; head, pro- 

 notum, and scutellum very finely and densely punctate"; legs 

 pale castaneous, more or less shaded with black, posterior 

 tibiae with two distinct spines, tarsi more or less pale 

 ochraceous. 



Long - . 6 mm. 



Hab. Mr. Panid. 



Ptyelus montaguei, sp. n. 



Body above very dark castaneous, almost black ; a small 

 spot at inner margins of eyes and two large contiguous discal 

 spots to pronotum bright ochraceous; scutellum pale casta- 

 neous ; an oblique narrow fascia crossing tegmina before 

 middle and a large marginal spot near apex of same greyish 

 white; femora and tibiae more or less blackish, tarsi ochra- 

 ceous "with their apices black ; head somewhat sharply oblique, 

 a little longer than pronotum, the whole upper surface thickly 

 finely punctate ; posterior tibice with two spines. 



Long. 5^ mm. 



Hab. Ignaumbi, Pampai, Mt. St. Arago. 



Var. a. — Pronotum without the two pale discal spots. 



Hab. Houadou. 



