Mr. W. L. Distant on Iloraoptera. 351 



Dictyophara aibarcBf sp. n. 



Body and legs ochraceous brown, thoracic caiinations paler 

 and vircscent ; tegmina and wings pale hyaline, tiic first 

 somewhat talc-like and with two very pale brownish longitu- 

 dinal streaks on apical area — one near costal, the other near 

 inner margin; cephalic protuberance long, robust, from in 

 t'ront of eyes a little longer than pronotuin and mesonotum 

 together ; face with a central longitudinal carination ; clypeus 

 centrally carinate and much more obscurely obliquely carinate 

 on each lateral area ; spines to posterior tibise concolorous. 



Long., excl. tegm., 9 mm.; exp. t(>gm. 18 mm. 



Ilah. Abyssinia; Atbara (Brit. Mu^.). 



Dictyophara speicarina. 



Dictyophora speicarina, Walk. Journ. Linn. Snc, Zool. i. p. 144 (18.";7). 

 Dicti/ophara sanyuinolenta, Leth. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) vi. p. 467 



(1888J. 



Dictyophara ferrifera. 



Didyophoraferrifera, Walk. List Elom. ii. p. 313 (1851). 

 Dictijiiphora melanixjona, Walk. List Horn., Suppl. p. 63 (1858). 



Dictyophara Dixoni, sp. n. 



Body and legs virescent or ochraceous ; tegmina and wings 

 pale hyaline, the venation very pale ocin-aceous ; head 

 curved upwardly, narrowing to apex, in front of eyes about 

 as long as mesonotum, above with the lateral margins strongly 

 ridged, and with a very short central ridge near middle; 

 face tricarinate, the lateral carinations moderately converging 

 before clypeus, which is strongly centrally carinate, and 

 obliquely striate on each lateral area; pronotum centrally 

 carinate ; mesonotum tricarinate, the lateral carinations 

 almost straight, not convexly converging anteriorly; posterior 

 tibiaj with live spines, their apices black, first spine near 

 extreme base ; rostrum considerably passing posterior coxjb ; 

 femora and tibise strongly longitudinally sulcate. 



Long., excl. tegm., 11 mm.; exp. tegm. 26 mm. 



Hab. Bombay [R. M. Dixon). 



Dictyophara Cummingi, sp. n. 



Body and legs virescent or ochraceous; eyes black; teg- 

 mina and wings hyaline, with the venation very pale ochra- 

 ceous ; head prolonged, robust, porrect, slightly ascending at 



