Mv. W. L. Distant on Ilomoptcra. 21 



.insulate near base ; wings about as broad as but much shorter 

 than tormina, rcticuhitely veined except on basal area. 



This genus may be pLiccd near Prolepta, Walk. 



Typo, S. chersonesia, Dist. 



Samsama chersonesia, sp. n. 



Head and pronotum viresceut ; anterior margin of vertex 

 and cephalic process black, apex of the latter stramineous ; 

 mcsonotuin purplish brown ; metanotum and abdomen abovo 

 pale testaceous ; body beneatii and legs pale ochraceous, face 

 and lateral areas of prosternutn viresceut, apex of abdomen 

 carmine-red ; tegmina pale ochraceous brown, a subbasal trans- 

 verse fascia and costal membrane (its colour extending near its 

 apex on disk of tegmina) viresceut, two black spots on costal 

 membrane near base ; wings hyaline, the venation fuscous, 

 with a broad basal patch of carmine-red, apical half of anal 

 area fuscous. 



Long., excl. tegm. and coph. process, 121 mm., long. ceph. 

 process 8^ ram. ; exp. tegm. 37 mm. 



Hah. Malay Peninsula ; Perak [Doherty). 



Genus Dkuentia. 



Druenfia, StSl, Horn. Afr. iv. p. 144 (1866). 



I'yryoteles, Gerst. iu Decken's Iveiseu, iii. (2) p. 428 (1873). 



Type, D. variegata, Spin. {Enchophora) . 



Druentia variegata. 



Etichophora variegata, Spin. Aun. Soc. Ent. Fr. viii. p. 225, t. xii. fiy. 3 



(1839), oxcl. habitat. 

 Druentia variegata, Stal, Hem. Afr. iv. p. 144 (1866). 

 Enchophora sicca, Walk. List Horn. ii. p. 272 (1851) ; id. loc. cit. iv. 



t. iii. fig. 2 (1852). 

 Pgryvteles siccus, Gerst. in Decken's lieisen, iii. (2) p. 428 (1873). 

 Belbi)ia sicca, Stal, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (3) i. p. 580 (1863). 

 Pyryuteles cristatus, Karsch, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1894, t. ii. tig. 4 a. 



Bab. S. Africa. 



EcUADOEiA, gen. nov. 



Head prominently produced in front of eyes, the cephalic 

 process in front of eyes about as long as from eyes to base of 

 pronotum, robust, directed upwardly, and apically a little 

 recurved, above strongly longitudinally channelled, notched 

 on each side beyond middle ; face very much broadened from 

 between eyes, wiiere the lateral margins are concavely sinuate, 

 lateral margins of the auterior and narrow prolongation 



