Mr. W. r>. Distant on Ilomoptora. 75 



LoUius miiiax. 

 Uy$teropterum minax, Walk. Journ. Lina. Soc., Zool. x. p. 127 (1808). 

 Hab. Ccram. 



LoUius morosus. 



/f>/^f-r<)/>terum mornsuvt, Walk. Joiirn. Linn. Soc, Zool. x. p. 12o 



'(1-«;m). 

 I fab. Morty Island. 



LoUius Levc. 

 Uy»Uropterum l<H'f, Walk. Joiirn. Fann. Soc, Zool. x. i>. 125 (1868). 



Hab. Ccraiu. 



LoUius tumidulus. 



Hysteropterum timidulum, Walk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. x. p. \'2~> 

 (180.?). 



Hab. Cerani. 



LoUius mouhoti, sp. u. 



Brownish ocliraccous, mottled and spotted with piceous or 

 fuscous ; vertex with a large dark fuscous spot before cacii 

 lateral margin ; face fuscous brown, transversely piceous 

 before clypcus, which is i)iccous, with its base ochraceous; 

 pronotum finely speckled with fuscous brown ; mcsonotum 

 with larger irregular fuscous-brown spots ; body beneath 

 paler and less darkly sufl'used than above ; legs much 

 mottled with fuscous brown; tegmina ochraceous, finely 

 mottled with brownish, a large inner basal fascia to clavus, 

 central longitudinal di^k to corium, and small costal and 

 apical marginal spots piceous; the dark discal coloration is 

 broken near costa, exhibiting two ochraceous spots, one near 

 middle and the other bevond it; vertex concave, about as 

 long as broad, the anterior margin centrally a little angu- 

 larly prominent, the lateral margins upwardly laniiuatcly 

 ridged ; face moderately concave at base, the basal angles 

 acute, the lateral margins obliquely directed outwards for 

 two-thirds their length and then inwardly oblique to clypens, 

 centrally carinate and becoming broadly bifurcatcly carinate 

 at about one- fourth from base ; pronotum with the anterior 

 margin centrally roundly produced between the posterior 

 areas of the eves, the posterior margin a little snbobliquely 



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