Ou new Oriental Ilomoptem. G39 



of head. Scales very small, 20 between origin of soft dorsal 

 and lateral line ; latter formed of a few tubules widely 

 separated from one another. Brownish, with dark lines 

 torming a wide-meshed network ; dorsal, anal, and caudal 

 fins blackish, with round white spots more or less regularly 

 arrangeil, and a white border. 



Total length IDO mm. 



Two specimens from Sierra Leone, presented to the 

 Natural History Museum by the Liverpool School of Tropical 

 Medicine. 



LXX. — Descriptions of new Genera and Species of Oriental 

 Honioptera. By W. L. Distant. 



Fam. FulgoridsB. 



Subfam. Derbinm, 



Phenice jJidlata, sp. n. 



Head and thorax above piceous, pronotum black ; body 

 beneath black; raetasternum and legs stramineous; coxfe 

 piceous ; abdomen above black, spotted with ochraceous ; 

 tegmina dark fuscous, the costal area white, with, large dark 

 fuscous spots, the second from base largest and longitudinal, 

 the others transverse, the inner area broadly and irregularly 

 white, the fuscous extendins; through it to inner maro-iu near 

 base and before middle, two white spots on apical margin, the 

 lowermost large, the upper one small, the apices of the veins 

 on inner margin are fuscous ; wings fuliginous, with the 

 veins fuscous, the posterior marginal area suffused with 

 white; antennae ochraceous. 



Long., excl. tegm., 3 mm. ; exp. tegm. 19 mm. 



JIab. N.W. Ind. Prov. ; Kumaon District. 



Allied to P. maesta, Westw., but larger, markings of 

 tegmina different, &c. 



Phenice f err uginea, sp. n. 



Vertex of head and pronotum sordidly greyish ; mesonotum 

 fuscous brown, with the lateral and basal margins (the latter 

 broadly), a central straight longitudinal carinalion, and a 

 broader waved longitudinal fascia on each lateral area sordidly 

 greyish or very pale vircscent ; abdon^en above fuscous 



