Mr. W. F. K'lrhy— Notes on Fovficulidge. 61 



While comparing the catalogue with the collection, T propose 

 to publish preliminary notes on doubtful points of synonymy 

 and occasional descriptions of new species, which can then be 

 incorporated in the catalogue as printed. The present paper 

 forms the first of the proposed series. 



Genus DiPLATYS, Serv. 

 Diplatys Ridley i, sp, n. 



Long, Corp. 11 millim. ; segm. ult. cum fore. 2^ milllm. 



Female. — Head black above; labrum shining reddish brown, 

 with a transverse pale yellow stripe at its base ; head beneath 

 dull reddit^h, as are also the antennee and palpi ; second joint 

 of antennae pale yellow. Pronotam and scutellara tawny ; 

 tegmina deep black ; wing-scales blackish, bordered within 

 with pale yellow. Abdomen dull red, blackish towards the 

 extremity, and with large black spots on the sides ; forceps 

 reddish, upcurved, rather long, with the tips crossing. Legs 

 black, the base and tip of the femora and tibia3 and more or 

 less of the tarsi pale yellow. 



Hah. Singapore (//. N. Ridley). 



Allied to the African D. macrocephala, Beauv., but in 

 that species the head and legs are not so black and the tegmina 

 are reddish at the base. 



Genus PyCtIDICRANA, Serv. 

 Pygidicrana frontalis, sp. n. 



Long. corp. 18 millim.; segm. ult. cum forcip. 6 millim.; 

 long. tegm. 3^ millim. ; cum alis 4^ millim. 



Tagalina caffra, De Bornians (in coll.). 



Male. — Head testaceous ; occiput and sides of hinder lobe 

 as far as the eye, the front except towards the base of the 

 antennae, and a band from the eyes to the base of the palpi 

 black ; antennae at least 26-jointed, testaceous ; pronotum 

 with two very broad blackish or reddish-brown bands, almost 

 meeting behind, and leaving only a long oval space between 

 them and a narrow lateral border, testaceous. Scutellum 

 and tegmina testaceous ; the latter with two broad reddish- 

 brown bands on each, only separated by a pale line, the outer 

 bands darker. Wing-scales short, pale yellow, bordered 

 outside with brown. Abdomen reddish brown. Under sur- 

 face of tlie body reddish brown, shading into yellowish on the 

 pectus and lower part of the head. Legs testaceous ; femora 

 striped above with pale reddish brown. Forceps thick, tri- 

 quetral, curving inwards to a projecting blunt angle on their 



