Mr. W. L. Distant on Hornoptera. 561 



Taphuraria. 



Ahroma philippinensis^ sp. n. 



? . Body pale testaceous ; head with a castaneous or 

 piceous spot at anterior angles of vertex; mesonotum with 

 four subobsolete obconical spots, of which the two central are 

 shortest; sternum somewliat thickly palely pilose; rostrum 

 with its apex piceous and reacliing the intermediate coxEe ; 

 streaks to coxae and femora, and a central fascia to abdomen 

 beneath, piceous; tegniina and wings hyaline, venation 

 ochraceous or brownish ochraceous ; costal membrane ochra- 

 ceous, veins at bases of first and second apical areas and a 

 subclaval streak pale fuscous ; front distinctly finely longi- 

 tudinally sulcate ; first and third apical areas of tegmina 

 about equal in length and a little longer than second. 



Long., excl. tegm., ? 15-17 mm.; exp. tegm. 39-41 mm. 



Hab. Philippine Islands, Palaouan (Paris 5lus.). 



I have not seen a male of this species. 



Parnisaria. 



Quintilia Soulii, sp. n. 



S . Body above black, mostly palely pilose ; head with the 

 apical margin of front, lateral margins of vertex, and a 

 central spot at base testaceous ; pronotum with the margins 

 and a central fascia which is ampliated posteriorly (where it 

 contains a black spot) pale testaceous ; mesonotum with the 

 margins and two central elongate fascise (each containing a 

 black spot) testaceous ; abdomen above with the segmental 

 margins testaceous ; body beneath testaceous ; face (excluding 

 margins and basal spot), streaks of femora, anterior tibiae, 

 bases and apices of intermediate and posterior tibiae, tarsi, and 

 metasternum black; tegmina and wings hyaline, venation 

 ochraceous on basal and fuscous on apical areas ; tegmina 

 with the costal membrane ochraceous ; wings with the margins 

 of the anal area fuscous. 



Var. a. — $ . Mesonotum with only faint indications of the 

 pale central elongate fascige. 



Var. h. — ? . Both pronotum and mesonotum without pale 

 central fasciae. 



Long., excl. tegm,, ^ ? 17^ mm.; exp. tegm. 39-42 mm. 



Hab. Yunnan; Tse-kou (.%r. Souh'S, Paris Mus.). 

 Without locality (Brit. Mus.). 



Allied to Q. migannia, Dist., but tegmina totally pale 

 hyaline, wings with only margins of anal area infuscated, 

 lateral pronotal margins less oblique and more sinuate, &c. 



Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 7. Vol. xvi. 37 



