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spots (the uppermost in radial area) and the apical one 

 dark tawny brown, on the apical area about nine small 

 greyish-white spots (six submargiual, the other three near 

 the anterior confines of the dark apical area) ; wiags pale 

 blackish with greyish-white streaks at base and five small 

 spots of the same hue near apical margin. 



Structural characters reserved till ^ specimen received. 



Long., excl. tegm., ? , 27 mm. ; exp. tegm. 82 mm. 



Hab. Laos ; Tathom [R. Vitalis de Salvazci). 



Allied to the British Indian species G. stellata, Walk. 



Gaana vestita, var. 



Gceana vestita, Dist. Entomologist, xx;xviii. p. 121, fig. (1905). 



? . Differing from the typical form of ^ in having the 

 transverse subcentral pale fascia broken up into three spots, 

 and with no pale spot in the penultimate ulnar area. 

 Hab. Laos; Tathom {R. Vitalis de Salvaza). 



Scieroptera delineata, sp. n. 



? . Head black ; pronotum dark castaneous, lateral and 

 posterior margins and a central " hourglass "-shaped fascia 

 dark ochraceous ; mesonotum dark ochraceous, with a 

 lai'ge, fasciate, obconical black spot on each lateral area, 

 the basal cruciform elevation dark ochraceous ; face black, 

 its lateral areas, sternum, and legs more or less ochraceous ; 

 anterior femora with more than apical halves black, inter- 

 mediate and posterior femora more or less apically suffused 

 with black ; abdomen beneath somewhat fuscous and opaque, 

 above black; tegmina shining, talc-like, nearly basal half 

 brassy brown, remaining area of a paler brassy hue, the 

 costal membrane «,nd costal area and the veins on about 

 basal half testaceous brown, remaining venation more or 

 less black, interior of basal cell and inner tegminal margin 

 black ; veins on basal half suffused with testaceous brown 

 and a transverse macular fascia of the same colour delimi- 

 nating the basal area; wings pale brassy yellow; face 

 transversely striate, not longitudinally sulcate ; anterior 

 femora with three long robust spines on underside of 

 anterior areas ; rostrum reaching the intermediate coxis ; 

 vertex of head at base and between the ocelli distinctly 

 sulcate. 



Long., excl. tegm., ? , 18 mm. ; exp. tegm. 50 mm. 



Hab. Laos ; Cliapa (/?. Vitalis de Salvaza). 



