tieiv Oriental Ilomoptera. 187 



Kinnara niaculata, sp. n. 



Body above more or less castaneoiis biown ; apex of the 

 abdomen pale ocliraceous ; body beneath and legs, vertex 

 and pronotuni, more or less oehraceous; tegniina very pale 

 ocliraceous, subhyaline, with threo prominent tuscous spots, 

 one near base, another near end of subcostal area, and the 

 third on disk a little beyond and above the apex of chivus, 

 the apical marginal area distinctly palely intuscate ; nings 

 hyaline, the veins palely fuscous, the anal posterior area 

 adorned with opaline lustre. 



Long., excl. tegin., 2i mm. ; exp. tegm, Oi-lO mm. 



Hab. Travancore ; Maddathoray, west base of W. Ghats 

 [Annandale, Indian and Brit. Muss.). 



This species differs from K. ceylonica, Melicli., in the 

 narrower face, different colour and markings. 



Kinnara spectra, sp. n. 



Body and legs pale oehraceous ; tegmina and wings sub- 

 hyaline, uniformly greyish white ; vertex short and broad, 

 much narrower than pronotum, the disk concave, the margins 

 strongly carinate ; face narrowest between tiie eyes, ampliated 

 towards middle where it is subangulate, and then narrowed 

 to clypeus. 



Long., excl. tegm., 3 mm. ; exp. tegm. 11 mm. 



Hub. E. Himalayas (Brit. Mus.). 



This species is to be separated from all the other species 

 of the genus at present described by the uniformly pale and 

 subhyaline tegmina and wings, and the subangulate ampli- 

 fication of the face. 



Ambalangoda, gen. nov. 



Vertex very slightly longer than broad, the lateral margins 

 laminately raised and slightly projecting at their apices; 

 eyes elongate, occupying the whole lateral margins of the 

 vertex and continuetl backward beyond its base ; face longer 

 than broad, widened toward clypeus, the lateral margins 

 sinuate and ampliately ridged, centrally longitudinally cari- 

 nate, before clypeus moderately concave ; clypeus a little 

 more than half the length of face, its lateral margins carinate, 

 its disk somewhat tumid ; pronotum very narrow, its lateral 

 areas strongly obliquely recurved backward; mesonotum 

 large, with the disk longitudinally raised, flattened and tri- 

 carinate ; posterior tibiae not spined ; tegmina more than 

 twice as long as broad, widened toward apex, costal margin 



