44 Mr. G. Meade- Waldo on 



Lepteria, gen. nov. 



Male. — Antennae ciliated. Palpi povrect, hairy, twice the 

 length of head, fringed above with longer hairs at base. 

 Legs smoothly scaled. Fore wings : apex acute, outer 

 margin oblique ; vein 3 near lower angle, 4 from angle, 

 5 near angle ; 6 below upper angle ; 7 and 8 from upper 

 angle ; 9 and 10 stalked with 8. Hind wings : veins 3 

 and 4 stalked ; 5 well above angle ; 6 and 7 on short 

 stalk. 



Type of genus, RhynclioUta ? vi'ridicosta, Schs. (A. M.N. H. 

 1912, p. 202). 



UpOTHENIA, gen. nov. . 



Male. — Antennse''pubescent, ciliate. Palpi obliquely ascend- 

 ing, slender, smoothly scaled, acuminate. Fore wings : apex 

 acute ; outer margin oblique ; noareole ; veins 7-10 stalked. 

 Hind wing : veins 3 and 4 from lower angle ; 5 well above 

 lower angle ; 6 and 7 from upper angle. 



TjpeMe^achj/ia acutipennis, Schs. (A. M. N. H. 1912, ix. 

 p. 211). 



II. — New Species of Diploptera in the Collection of the 

 British Museum. By Geoffrey Meade- Waldo, M.A. 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



Part IV. 



Tbe following paper deals principally with points in the 

 synonymy of known species, but four species and a variety 

 are described for the first time. 



In the Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) vi. p. 100 (1910), 

 I stated that no species of Alastor had been recorded 

 from tropical Africa ; but two species have been recently 

 received from Cape Colony, and are here described, so that 

 its occurrence further north may be confidently expected. 



As before, all measurements of length are from the front 

 of the head to the apex of the second abdominal segment. 



IsCHNOCCELiA, Perkins. 



In the Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) vol. v. p. 38 (1910) 

 this genus was synonymized with Elimus, Sauss., but it has 



