:Mr. W. L. Distant on Peiitatoinirhc. 351 



Genus Cantheconidea. 



Cautheconidea, Schout. in Wvtsm. Gen. Ins. fasc. lii. p. 44 (^1907). 

 Type, C.jaoana, Dall. 



Cantheconidea thomsoni, sp. n. 



Purplish black ; head thickly punctate, the lateral lobes 

 broadly reflexed at their apical areas and apically rounded, a 

 short central longitudinal line at base, a small marginal spot 

 in front of each eye, and a small obscure spot at apex of 

 central lobe ochraceous ; pronotum very coarsely punctate 

 and subrugulose, the anterior lateral margins serrate, the 

 lateral angles shortly produced and recurved, their apices 

 roundly angulate, the anterior lateral n)argins and nine or 

 ten irregular spots on anterior area ochraceous ; scutelluni 

 coarsely punctate, more finely so and with a levigate longi- 

 tudinal space on apical area, a levigate spot near each basal 

 angle, and the apex ochraceous ; corium thickly, somewhat 

 finely punctate ; membrane bronzy, distinctly passing the 

 abdominal apex ; connexivum ochraceous, punctate, with 

 large blackish spots at the incisures ; body beneath and legs 

 ochraceous ; sternum somewhat irregularly spotted and 

 marked with black ; abdomen with the spiracles, marginal 

 spots, and some central elongate spots black ; apices of 

 femora, bases and apices of tibue, and apices of tarsi black ; 

 rostrum reaching the posterior coxie, its apex black ; an- 

 tennae black, first joint not reaching apex of head, second, 

 third, and fourth joints subequal in length (fifth mutilated 

 in type). 



Long., ^ , 14 mm.; exp. pronot. angl. 8 mm. 



Hab. N.E. China ; Shan-hai-kwan [F. M. Tliomson, Brit. 

 Mus.). 



(jcnus Flatvnopus. 

 Platynopus, Amy. & Serv. Hist. Hem. p. 79 (1843). 

 Type, P. inelanoleucus, AVestw. 



Platynopus turneri, sp. n. 



H6ad longer than broad, ochraceous, much mottled with 

 resplendent green, very coarsely punctate, the punctures in 

 somewhat longitudinal series ; autennae brow^nish ochraceous, 

 third, fourth, and fifth joints (excluding bases) iufuscate, 

 first joint short, not reaching apex of head, second and fourth 

 a little longest and subequal in length, third and fifth also 



