Mr, W. L. Distant on llomoptera. G69 



third, fourtli, fifth, and soventli apical areas infuscated, and a 

 double series of small submar^-inal fuscous spots placed one 

 on each side of the longitudinal veins to apical areas ; wings 

 very pale ochraceous, about apical third hyaline, the outer 

 margin of the ochraceous area slightly tinged witli fuscous; 

 opercula short, transverse, their anterior angles well separated; 

 rostrum passing posterior cox£e, its apex piceous ; lateral 

 margins of pronotum ampliate and broadly angulated ; head 

 (including eyes) about as wide as mesonotum. 



Long., excl. tegm., (^ IG^ mm.; exp. tegm. 5G mm. 



Hab. B. East Africa ; Lindi. 



Belonging to the group of species represented by P. A/zeli, 

 Stal. 



Platy2yleura mira. 



Platypleura mira, Dist. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xiv. p. 333 (1904). 

 Platypleura laotimia, MS., Paris Mus. 



Since describing the male (supra) I have seen the other 

 sex, also contained in the Paris Museum. 



? . Differs from (J in tiie tint of the tegmina, the ground- 

 colour of which is greyish brown and not brownish ochraceous ; 

 the two oblique piceous fascias are also deeper and brighter in 

 hue, and the outer one distinct and not fused with the dark 

 markings on the apical area. 



Platypleura MurcJiisoni, sp. n. 



cJ . Head, thorax, body beneath, and legs pale tawny ; 

 abdomen black, the tympana pale tawny ; body somewhat 

 thickly, finely, greyishly pilose ; mesonotum with four 

 anterior obconical spots, denoted by their black margins, the 

 two central ones much the shorter, and with two small, rounded, 

 black spots in front of the cruciform elevation ; tegmina very 

 pale tawny, obscurely mottled with paler or greyish suffusions; 

 the radial area greyish with two very pale fuscous spots, the 

 innermost preceded by a similar spot on costal membrane, 

 the outer halves o£ the first to third ulnar areas and the 

 whole of the apical areas greyish, semiopaque, with very 

 obscure pale tawny macuhir motllings, principally on the 

 longitudinal veins, and a double series of small outer sub- 

 marginal fuscous spots placed one on each side of the 

 longitudinal veins to apical areas; wings pale ochraceous, 

 the apical area and the subposterior margin pale tauny 

 brown, apex of anal area and posterior and ajtical margins 

 greyish, semiopaque; head (including eyes) about as wide as 



