some recently received Ulfynchota. 559 



area testaceous-, transverse veins at bases of second, third, 

 and fifth apical areas infuscated; rostrum reaching basal 

 margin of second abdominal segment; face centrally very 

 finety longitudinally silicate, the transverse striations broad 

 and mostly black ; opercula reaching base of second abdo- 

 minal segment, apical margins oblique, apical angles rounded ; 

 lateral margins of pronotum distinctly toothed ; second and 

 third ventral segments with distinct lateral tubercles ; head 

 (including eyes) narrower than base of mesonotnm. 



Long., excl. tegm., £ 22 mm.; exp. tegm. Gti mm. 



Hab. Near Lao Kay, Upper Tonkin {R. Vitalis de 

 Salvaza). 



Allied to L. andamanensis, Dist., but opercula shorter and 

 broader, apex of abdomen black, &c. 



Haphsa nana, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, and mesonotum pale greenish ochraceous; 

 head with a curved central spot on front, the area of the 

 ocelli, an angularly curved fascia before each eye, and 

 anterior angle of vertex black ; pronotum with two central 

 longitudinal lines, which are outwardly curved anteriorly and 

 posteriorly, the fissures and anterior area of lateral margin 

 black ; mesonotum with four ill-defined obconical black spots 

 more or less margined with ochraceous, the two outermost 

 longest, and between these and the central spots a smaller 

 anterior marginal black spot, a rounded black spot in front of 

 each anterior angle of the basal cruciform elevation ; abdo- 

 men above dark ochraceous, the central and apical areas 

 black; body beneath and legs ochraceous, most of the 

 striations to face black ; tegmina and wings hyaline, venation 

 mostly ochraceous, the costal membrane to tegmina greenish, 

 and the basal transverse veins to second and third apical 

 areas moderately infuscated ; rostrum reaching the apices of 

 the posterior coxae. 



Long., excl. tegm., <J 25 mm. ; exp. tegm. 73 mm. 



Hab. Indo-China (R. Vitalis de Salvaza). 



In general appearance closely allied to //. nicomache, Walk., 

 but differing in the size and shape of the opercula, which are 

 shorter (only reaching the base of the third abdominal seg- 

 ment), their apices broader and more roundly truncate, and 

 their inner margins more widely separated. 



Platylornia operculata, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, and mesonotum brownish testaceous ; 

 posterior margin of pronotum and basal cruciform elevation 



