26 Mr. W. L. Distant on Ilomoptera. 



Pvlydictya crassa, sp. n. 



Head, lliorax, body beneath, and legs piceous ; face 

 biovvnisli ochraceous ; abdomen brownish ochraceous, above 

 with its base piceous black; tegmina pale dull castaneous; 

 wings ochraceous, apex and posterior margin fuscous brown ; 

 pronotum centrally longitudinally carinate ; face strongly 

 excavate on each side ; rostrum reaching the posterior coxye ; 

 posterior tibiae with two long spines on apical halves; 

 tegmina closely and coarsely reticulate from base to apex. 



Long., excl. fegm., 20 mm.; exp. tegm. oH mm. 



Bab. S. Celebes (Coll. Dist.). 



Polydictya illuminata, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, face, and clypeus ochraceous ; abdomen 

 above shining metallic Wack, its lateral margins and the 

 margins of the last two segments castaneous brown ; body 

 beneath and legs jjicoous ; rostrum, coxk, apices of femora, 

 bases of anterior and intermediate tibiae, and the whole of the 

 posterior tibise pale ochraceous brown ; tegmina stramineous, 

 the venation ochraceous, and much spotted and mottled with 

 black or piceous, for about basal half the shadings are 

 maculate and on apical area waved irregular fasciae are 

 formed ; wings dark fuscous, upper basal area pale brownish 

 ochraceous; ])ronotum obscurely centrally carinate; meso- 

 notum piceous brown, with a lateral spot on each side beyond 

 middle and the apex ochraceous ; anal appendage ochraceous ; 

 rostrum just passing the posterior coxse ; posterior coxje with 

 five spines, the two nearer base small and obscure; face sub- 

 globose, laterally excavate on each side. 



Long., excl. tegm., 19-20 mm. ; exp. tegm. 56-58 mm. 



Ilah. Malay Archipelago; Tarabora, Sambawa [Doherty, 

 Brit. Mus.). 



Genus BlUDANTlS. 

 Birdantis, StSl, Trans. Eat. Soc. Loud. (3) i. p. 581 (1863j. 

 Type, B. decenSj Sta!. 



Birdantis collaris. 



Polydictya coUaris, Walk. Jouni. Linn. Soc, Zool. x. p. 08, t. iii. li". 10 



(1807). 

 vittiixHtris, Walk., MS. 



Galela, gen. nov. 

 Head large, broad, i)rutruding considerably in front of eyes, 



