048 Mr. \V. L. Distant on new 



j)roduced ; abdomen in male long, somewhat globular, apically 

 attenuated, much longer than space between apex of head 

 and base of cruciform elevation ; tympana entirely exposed ; 

 rostrum scarcely reaching the intermediate coxse ; face com- 

 pressed, centrally flattened, the sides transversely striate ; 

 antennse robust and prominent ; opercula in male scarcely 

 extending bej'-ond base of abdomen, outwardly obliquf', 

 apically roundly truncate, not meeting internally ; tegmina 

 and wings hyaline ; tegmina three times as long as broad, 

 basal cell much longer than broad, second ulnar area sub- 

 quadrate, apical areas eight ; wings with five apical areas. 



Allied io Rhinopsaha, Melich., but differing by the tegmina 

 possessing eight apical areas, not seven as in Melichar's 

 genus ; head with the front not acutely produced. 



Jafuna melichari^ sp. n. 



Body and legs greenish ochraceous ; head with the margins 

 of front, the antennae, lateral margins of pronotum, and 

 l)osterior segmental margins to abdomen, black ; apices of 

 tibiffi and the tarsi carmine-red, the latter apically black ; 

 opercula pale green, with their margins again distinctly paler ; 

 tegmina and wings hyaline, the veins greenish on basal, 

 piceous on apical areas ; a distinct black foveate spot near each 

 anterior angle of the basal ciuciform elevation, tliese anterior 

 angles being also black ; other structural characters as in 

 generic diagnosis. 



LoniT., excl. tegm., 16 mm. ; ex;\ tegni. 42 mm. 



Hab. Madagascar; Tamatave (Brit. Mus.). 



BlJAURANA, gen. nov. 



Allied to Taipi'nga, Dist. (Ann. & Mag. IS at. llist. (7) 

 xvi. p. 210 (1905), but the tegmina with only seven apical 

 areas, the first and seventh areas about equal in length ; 

 front very much shorter than vertex, which is distinctly 

 longitudinally sulcate at base ; pronotum a little longer than 

 head, the lateral margins oblique, slightly sinuate, the 

 posterior angles moderately, subangularly ampliate; abdo- 

 men longer than space between apex of head and base of 

 cruciform elevation ; tympana entirely exposed ; opercula 

 in male about reaching base of abdomen, not meeting 

 internally, apical margins obliquely rounded ; rostrum 

 reaching the intermediate coxa\ 



Bijdui'ana ii/picoj sp. n. 

 Body and legs dull ochraceous ; ocelli red ; eyes piceous ; 



