420 Mr. W. L. Distant on Genera and 



PJira pictipennis^ sp. n. 



Body above pale tawny brown ; mesonotum witli two 

 central linear fasciee and a large spot on each lateral area dull 

 castaneous brown, margins narrowly greyish white ; body 

 beneath and legs pale ochraceous, base of abdomen black 

 where the segmental margins are greyish white ; tegmina 

 pale, creamy semihyaline, much mottled with very pule 

 fuscous, three or four linear longitudinal black spots in costal 

 area, apical veins more or less suffused with blackish, three 

 rounded black spots on basal third and three blackish spots 

 on inner margin ; wings white, semihyaline, the veins 

 darker. 



Allied to P. amplificata, Dist., from Ceylon, but with the 

 vertex of head slightly shorter ar.d considerably more con- 

 cave ; the amplified mesonotal margins much broader and 

 less spinous, markings of the tegmina distinct, &c. 



Long., excl. tegm., ?)\ mm. ; exp. tegm. 18 mm. 



Ilah. U. P. Brit. India, Bankatti {A. D. lmm.% Brit. 

 Mus.). 



" Under bark and in rotten wood of standing Sal." 



Subfam. RicANiiNM. 



Pochazia pi per a, sp. n. 



Head and pronotum l)rownish ochraceous, mesonotum 

 black, exposed margins of metanotum ochraceous ; abdomen 

 testaceous; bady beneath and legs ochraceous ; tegmina pale 

 bronzy brown, two pale transverse linos before apex and a 

 much inwardly angulated line near middle, from this line to 

 base the surface is much mottled with small paler and darker 

 spots, a small black spot near apical angle and a subtriangular 

 pale spot near apex of costal membrane ; wings very pale 

 bronzy brown; mesonotum with five carinate lines, the 

 central one straight, on each side of which is an inwardly 

 and anteriorly curved line which bifurcates near middle; 

 apical margin of tegmina larger than inner margin ; face 

 broad, centrally carinate, the carination becoming almost 

 obsolete towards clypcus ; posterior tibiae with tjvo spines. 



Long., excl. tegm., (I mm. ; exp. tegm. 19^ mm. 



llah. Malabar Distr., Taliparansbas ('/'. Bainhrigge- 

 Fletcher, Brit. Alu-J.). 



" On rtpi)er plant." 



