390 On, Rhynchota from the Aru Islands. 



apical angles of coiiuni narrowly produced ; scutelluni trans- 

 versely wrinkled ; margins of the connexivurn granulosa, 

 slightly nodulose at the segmental incisures; second segment 

 of the abdomen beneath with a large and prominent tubercle 

 on each side; anterior and intermediate femora with a distinct 

 spine near apex and slightly longer than the tibijB ; posterior 

 femora long, robust, sligiitly curved, attenuated at base, 

 posterior tibire moderatiily dilated, with a strong spine at 

 inner surface before apex ; membrane not quite reaching 

 abdominal apex. 



Long., (J, 35 mm. 



Allied to M. limbad'ventris, Stal, from New Guinea, but 

 rostrum not reaching the intermediate coxte : the species a 

 considerably larger one ; the lateial sternal fascia broken up 

 distinctly into three segmental sj)0ts; abdominal pale lateral 

 margin absent above, beneath only visible on the tirst and 

 second segments. 



Genus Sawda. 



Sawda, Dist. Ann. & Mag-. Nat. Hisl. (7) xv. p. 62 (1905). 

 Tyj)e, S. miniica, Dist. 



Sawda froggatlij sp. n. 



Head and pronotum greenish ochraceous, the latter with a 

 ])ale, narrow, longitudinal fascia, with darker margins and 

 widened anteriorly and posteriorly ; mesonotum brownish 

 olivaceous, \vith two obconical black-margined spots ex- 

 tending about halfway from anterior margin, on each side of 

 which is a shorter, more angulate, dark-margined spot, the 

 dark margins not meeting apically ; abdomen above casta- 

 neous, more or less finely gre3Mshly i)ilose ; face, sternum, 

 and legs virescent ; ojuncula ochraceous ; abdomen beneath 

 stramineous; tegmina and wings hyaline, the veins greenish 

 or ochraceous; tegmina with the transverse veins at the 

 apices of the ulnar areas infuscated, and the apices of the 

 longitudinal veins to apical areas also infuscated, some of the 

 veins on basal half of tegmina also distinctly marked with 

 dark fuscous; opcrcula almost reaching the base of the fifth 

 abdominal segment, well separated internally, moderately 

 convex, lateral margins concavely sinuate, apical margins 

 obliquely truncate, inner margins nearly straight. 



Long., cJ 35 mm.; exp. tegm. lOS mm. 



Allied to S.gestroci, Dist., from New Guinea, but a smaller 

 species, the opercula more obliquely truncate at their 

 apices, &c. 



