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cruciform elevation, an obsolete spot on each side of the two 

 central ones and a similar spot in front of cruciform elevation, 

 piceous ; abdomen above much suffused witii piceous ; body 

 beneath, opercula in male, and legs brownish ochraceous; 

 under surfaces of anterior tibiae, anterior and intermediate 

 tarsi, and apex of rostrum piceous; tegmina and wings 

 hyaline, veins fuscous, a little suffused with pale fuscous 

 brown along the veins, transverse veins at the bases of 

 second, third, fifth, and seventh apical areas more distinctly 

 infuscated ; subclaval areas distinctly fuscous and inwardly 

 margined with black; tegmina with the costal membrane and 

 basal cell brownish ochraceous ; opercula in male reaching 

 the penultimate abdominal segment ; their apices broad and 

 subangularly rounded, narrowed towards base, where they 

 are concavely sinuate on each side, their inner margins 

 contiguous but not meeting on disk of abdomen, their 

 surface distinctly granulose, their edges a little recurved and 

 a{)ices very narrowly cretaceous ; rostrum reaching the 

 posterior coxse. 



Long., excl. tegm., ^ 48, ? 51; exp. tegm., ^ 154, 

 ? 168 mm. 



Hub. Brit. New Guinea, Ekeikei [Pratt). 



Sawda Sharply sp. n. 



Closely allied to the preceding species {8. Pratti), but 

 differing by its smaller size, the opercula in male only 

 reaching the third abdominal segment, and though of same 

 general sliajte yet much more narrowed at their bases ; 

 transverse veins at the bases of apical areas to tegmina a little 

 more infuscated ; pronotum and mesonotum with the piceous 

 markings obsolete. 



Long., excl. tegm., ^ 47 mm. ; exp. tegm. 132 mm. 



IJah. Brit. New Guinea ; Ekeikei [Pratt). 



Diceropyga aluana, sp. n. 



Head and pronotum ochraceous ; lateral strise to front, a 

 spot at anterior angles of vertex, area of ocelli, and extreme 

 basnl margin of vertex, piceous or black; anterior margin of 

 pronotum narrowly black ; mesonotum greenish ochraceous, 

 sometimes suffused with piceous, with two obconical spots 

 denoted by their dark outer margins ; abdomen in male 

 brownish ochraceous, palely pilose, with a lateral series of 

 large black segmental spots on each side and tlie apex 

 piceous ; in female with the lateral spots smaller, more 

 elongate, and fasciate, and with a large cretaceous spot at 



