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3515. Penthimia flavocapitata, sp. n. 



Vertex of head ochraceous, eyes black; pronotum and scutelluiu 

 piceous, the latter with an ochraceous spot near each basal angle - r 

 body beneath and legs more or less piceous ; tegmina with a little 

 more than claval area piceous with some pale maculate markings, 

 posterior two-thirds of costal area merging into the whole of 

 apical area greyish with numerous piceous maculate suffusions ;. 

 vertex of head broad, its anterior margin conically rounded, 

 scarcely longer than half the breadth between eyes; pronotum con- 

 vex, declivous towards head; scutellum a little broader than long. 



Length incl. tegm. 4 millim. 



Hab. South India; Nilgiri Hills (T. V. Campbell). 



3516. Penthimia mudonensis, Dist. A. M. N. H. (8) x, p. 444 (1912), 

 Body above castaneous ; 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, tessel- 

 lated with black cellular rings varying in size, prominent among 

 which are spots in frontal margin of the apical area continued up 



Fig. 7. Penthimia mudonensis. 



the lateral margin of tegmen ; at extreme apex the colour is greyish, 

 semiopaque, with a blackish spot in the apical cells ; body beneath 

 castaneous; face, cheeks, clypeus, disk of sternum, suffusions 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 ; pronotum convex, wrinkled trans- 

 versely ; posterior tibia3 longly strongly pilose. 



Length 5| niillim. 



Hab. Teuasserim ; Mudon-Amherst Distr. (Annandale, Ind* 

 Mm.). 



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

 large tessellate apical area to the tegmina, the short vertex, &c. 



