7J:6 On new Oriental Ilomoptera. 



Brixia elongata, sp. n. 



Body aLove black or piceous ; face black, the lateral 

 margins brownish ochraceous: sternum and legs brownish 

 ochraceous ; abdomen beneath black, anal appendages 

 brownish ochraceous ; tegmina pale brownish ochraceous, 

 the veins darker and minutely setosely maculate, considerably 

 suffused with fuscous-brown markings, of which the principal 

 ones are : a broad transverse basal fascia followed by an 

 elongate spot on costal membrane, a broad transverse fascia 

 before middle which encloses a small pale spot on costal 

 membrane, the stigma and more or less the whole apical 

 area, on which there are some obscure greyish spots, the 

 apices of the apical veins are also shortly greyish, a greyish 

 marginal spot a little beyond claval apex ; wings pale fuli- 

 ginous, the veins darker ; tegmina long and narrow, nearly 

 three times as long as broad ; face long and narrow, com- 

 pressed between the eyes. 



Long., excl. tegm., 4 mm. : exp. tegm. 14-15 mm. 



Bah. Ceylon ; Horton Plains, Pattipola(G^?-ge», Brit. Miis.). 



The salient and most distinctive character of this species 

 is found in the long and narrow tegmina. 



Brixia variolosa^ sp. n. 



Body piceous ; lateral margins of mesonotum brownish 

 ochraceous; posterior abdominal segmental margins greyish 

 white; sternum and legs brownish ochraceous; tegmina 

 fuscous brown, with numerous pale markings either ochra- 

 ceous or greyish white, of which the principal ones are a 

 transverse fascia a little beyond base, two contiguous trans- 

 verse irregular fasciae near middle, the innermost darker and 

 more ochraceous, basal and inner margins of stigma, beneath 

 which are seven pale spots followed by a more ochraceous 

 spot near claval apex, on apical area three clusters of pale 

 spots ; wings fuliginous, the veins darker : face long, much 

 narrowed between the eyes, the lateral margins stronglv 

 carinate or ridged; tegmina a little more than twice as long 

 as greatest breadth, the costal margin distinctly sinuate ; 

 mesonotum tricarinate. 



Long., excl. tegm., 5 mm. ; exp. tegm. L> mm. 



Hah. E. Himalayas ; Kurscong {Annandale). 



The sinuation of the costal margin of tegmina, near base, 

 is a distinctive character of this species. 



Brixia geomdvina^ sp. n. 

 Body above dark castnncous brown; apical angles of 



