Mr. W. L. Distant’s Rhynchotal Notes. 27 
Stal, in the British Museum Collection, while the type, 
labelled “ carbonaria, Walk.,” so far as I can trace, has never 
been described. 
Aspasiana carbonaria, sp. n. 
carbonaria, Walk. MS. 
Head and pronotum shining black ; body beneath thickly 
ochraceously pilose; femora black or piceous, tibize and 
tarsi brownish ochraceous ; tegmina subhyaline, the apical 
area pale castaneous, extreme base and costal and subcostal 
veins black ; pronotum finely punctate, the globose lateral 
areas before middle of posterior process impunctate, narrow 
acute apex not reaching tegminal apices ; legs finely pilose ; 
other structural characters as in generic diagnosis. 
Long., incl. tegm., 83 mm.; exp. lat. pronot. angl. 
54 mm. 
Hab. New Guinea (A. R. Wallace). - 
Genus CERAON. 
Daunus, Stil, Hem. Afr. iv. p. 87 (1866), nom. preoce. 
Ceraon, Buckt. Mon. Membrace. p. 228 (1903). 
Zanophora, Kirk. Entomologist, xxxvii. p. 279 (1904), n. nom. 
Type, C. tasmaniea, Fairm. (Daunus). 
Kirkaldy’s new name (supra) is rendered unnecessary by 
Buckton’s previously published synonym. 
Ceraon rubridorsatum. 
Pterosticta rubridorsata, Buckt. Mon, Membrac. p. 230, pl. li. fig. 6 @ 
(1903). 
Hab. 8. Australia ; Adelaide (type in Brit. Mus.). 
Ceraon succisus. 
Daunus succisus, Buckt. Mon. Membrac. p- 226, pl. 1. figs. 3, 3a 
(1903). 
Hab. S. Australia; Adelaide (type in Brit. Mus.). 
Genus ACANTHUSUS. 
Acanthusus, Stil, Hem. Afr. iv. p. 87 (1866); Gify. Vet.-Ak. Forh, 
1869, p. 287 ; Goding, Proc, Linn. Soe. N.S.W. xxviii. p. 13 (1903). 
Type, A. gracilispinus, Stal. 
