350 ^Iv. AY. L. Distant on Ilomoptera. 



Kasserota, gen. nov. 



Allied to Acarna^ Stal, but to be separated by the different 

 structure of the liead. Head not protuberant, vertex sub- 

 quadrate, longer than broad, produced in front of ejes; ante- 

 rior margin a little convex, anterior and lateral margins ridged 

 and sometimes distinctly centrally ridged ; face angularly 

 ampliated behind eyes, tricarinate, the lateral carinations a 

 little convex and convexly nnitcfl at base. 



Type, K. notaticollis, Stal {Acarna). 



Kasserota notaticollis. 



Acarna notnticoUis, StSl, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (3) i. p. 584 (1863). 

 Acarna subajncalis, Walk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. x. p. 101 (1870). 



Kasserota doreyensis, sp. n. 



Body and legs brownish ochraceous ; abdomen above with 

 the posterior segmental margins fuscous ; vertex of head, 

 face, clypeus, femora, and apex of mesonotum paler or more 

 ochraceous ; tegmina pale ochraceous, with the venation 

 brown, posterior basal half and apical third umber-brown, the 

 latter with two greyish-white spots at costal margin and a 

 similar spot near apex of inner margin, and before apex a 

 black spot with a white eye and an ochraceous margin ; wings 

 very pale fuliginous, the venation and apical area fuscous ; 

 face with the lateral carinas very convex, broadly rounded 

 and united anteriorly, angles behind eyes strongly acutely 

 produced ; pronotum distinctly tricarinate ; mesonotum with 

 a central double carination, not extending beyond anterior 

 half, the lateral carinations united anteriorly. 



Long., excl. tegm., 13i mm.; exp. tegm. 36 mm. 



Jlal. Dorey [Wallace' \ln{. Mus.). 



Allied to K. 2^^tpill(it(t, Stal. 



Genus DlCTYOniARA. 



DictyojyJiara, Germ, in Silb. Eev. Ent. i. p. 17-5 (1833). 

 Bictiophora, Spin. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. viii. p. 290 (1839). 

 Pscu(lojjha7ia, Biirni. Ilandb. Ent. 2, i. p. lo9 (1835). 

 Chuvithus, Amy. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1847, p. 1(30. 

 JSersia, Stal^ Kio Jan. Hem. ii. p. 62 (1861). 



Type, D. europaa, Linn. [Fulgora] . 



Dictyophara Bocheti. 



Tuhjora {Dictyophara) Rochetii, GuL^r. in Lcf. Voy. Abvss., Ins. p. 342, 



t. vi. fig. 8 (184!»). 

 Dictijophora semirtticulatd, Walk. Journ. Ent. i. p. 307 (1802). 



