t;40 Mr. W. L. Distant on 



brown, tlie segmental margins black, with greyish spots ', 

 head beneath, sternum, and legs ochraceoiis; abdomen be- 

 neatii transversely fuscous and ocliraceous; tegmina fuli- 

 ginous, with the veins ferruginous, costal membrane with a 

 distinct series of sordidly greyish spots, some more indistinct 

 spots of the same colour on basal area, and three or four short 

 greyish-white lines at apex, beyond the apex of costal mem- 

 brane three or four short, transverse, ferruginous, waved, 

 linear spots, and the whole area of the tegraen more or less 

 obscurely mottled with greyish ; wings fuliginous, the veins 

 ferruginous ; vertex rather broader than in most species of 

 tiie genus and distinctly longitudinally grooved ; second 

 joint of antennae not reaching apex of head ; face rounded, 

 narrow, not angularly, laminately projecting; clypeusa little 

 longer than face ; abdomen above strongly, centrally, longi- 

 tudinally ridged; scutellum centrally longitudinally com- 

 pressed. 



Long., excl. tegm., 4-.5 mm.; exp. tegm. 20-23 mm. 



Hah. Travancore ; Maddathoray and near Trivandrura 

 ^Annandale). 



Allied to P. mi^rhay Dist. 



Zoraida variipennis, sp. n. 



Body above shining fuscous brown ; pronolum pitchy 

 black, abdomen, somewliat largely spotted with ocliraceous ; 

 second joint of antennae ocliraceous, with its apex black ; 

 body beneath and legs pale bright ocliraceous ; tegmina 

 hyaline, the veins more or less ferruginous, costal membrane 

 at extreme base and beyond middle to apex purplish red, 

 with minute black spots, basal area, an irregular transverse 

 central fascia, and a transverse fascia near apex dark fuli- 

 ginous ; wings hyaline, witli the veins pale sanguineous; 

 second joint of autennaj only a little shorter than head and 

 thorax together ; vertex narrow, somewhat triangular ; 

 mesonotum obsoletely tricariuate; abdomen ceutially lonoi- 

 tudinally ridged. 



Long., cxcl. tegm., Z\ ram.; exp. tegm. '22 mm. 



Hah. Ceylon ; Madulsima [Fletcher). 



Zoraida spectra, sp. n. 



Body pale ocliraceous; legs stramineous; eyes black; 

 tegmina and wings hyaline, the venation a little darker ; 

 second joint of anteiuuv pale ocliraceous, about as loiu>- as 

 kead and thorax together ; vertex wavy narrow ; face very 



