Mr. W. L. Distant on llomoptera. 303 



Var. areolifera, Walk. 



Pozciloptera areolifera, Walk. List Horn., Suppl. p. 112 (1858). 

 Cryptoflata areolifera, Melich. Ann. Hofmus. Wien, xvii. p. 24 (1902). 



Hab. West Africa, East Africa, Natal. 



Cryjjtoflata hova, sp. n. 



Body and legs pale ochraceous with a virescent tint, prob- 

 ably more decidedly greenish in fresh specimens ; tegmina 

 sordidly greyish white, claval area somewhat thickly covered 

 with dull reddish granules and some smaller scattered 

 granules of the same colour on basal area of corium beneath 

 the radial area ; wings creamy white ; vertex transverse, 

 about twice as broad as long, centrally longitudinally cari- 

 nate, the lateral margins also carinate, the apex truncate ; 

 face a little longer than broad, centrally longitudinally cari- 

 nate, the cariuation only extending about halfway from base, 

 lateral margins a little laminate ; rostrum slightly passing 

 the anterior coxae ; tegmina twice as long as broad, widened 

 towards apex, apical margin subtruncate, posterior margin 

 moderately concavely sinuate, costal membrane only slightly 

 narrower than radial area, the apical marginal area wider at 

 apex than at posterior angle ; tibiae sulcate. 



Long., excl. tegm., ? 7 mm. ; exp. tegm. 23 mm. 



Hab. Central Madagascar (Rev. Deans Cowan, Brit. Mus.). 



Genus Melicharia. 

 Melicharia, Kirk. Entomologist, xxxiii. p. 204 ( 1900). 

 Type, M. quadrata, Kirby. 



Melicharia doddi, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, and mesonotum more or less olivaceous 

 green, pro- and mesouota with a broad central longitudinal 

 brownish fascia; abdomen above olivaceous green, thickly 

 whitely tomentose ; body beneath aud legs pale virescent ; 

 tegmina pale green, with the veins more ochraceous, costal 

 margin from about oue-fourth from base, apical and inner 

 margin to apex of clavus, and the apical two-thirds of claval 

 vein sanguineous; in costal membrane beneath the costal 

 margin are some minute sanguineous spots and a few more 

 of rather paler colour in arched series on posterior disk of 

 corium, base of costal margin ochraceous ; wings creamy 

 white; vertex much broader than long, anteriorly truncate, 



