2S4 ^Ir. W. L. Distant on Horaoptern. 



stirrma pale oclirnccous, Avitli its outer lialf fcnu,c:inous brown ; 

 wings very slii;litly fuliginous, the veins luscous, apical 

 margin ferruginous brown ; vertex slightly narrowed ante- 

 riorly, the margins ridged, cenfriilly somewhat obscurely 

 longitudinally carinate; face and clypeus with a continuous 

 central tine carination, face anteriorly convoxly narrowed, 

 posteriorly strongly angularly cniarginate; pronolum short, 

 centrally carinate ; mesonotuin with tive carinations, the one 

 on each side of the central carination more discal and obscure ; 

 tegmina witii the apex rounded, the stigma moderately 

 small and narrow; anterior legs not prominejitly incrassated. 



Long., excl. tegm., 7^ mm. ; exp. tegm. 17 mm. 



JIub. Cameroons {Escalera, Brit. Mus.). 



Genus Bodecia. 

 Bodecia, Walk. Joum. Linn. Soc., Zool. x. p. 117 (18G7). 



Type, B. varipes, Walk. 



The unique type of this genus is in a most mutilated 

 condition, and its proper location is a question of doubt and 

 difficulty. The structure of the tegmina apparently allies it 

 to Mneviosyne, near w hich I have (awaiting better and further 

 material) placed it. 



Genus Cixius. 

 dxius, Latr. Hist. Nat. Ins. rii. p. 810 (1830-4). 



Type, C. nervosus, Linn. 



Cixius persicusy nom. nov. 



Cirim longipmni», Melich. Annuaire Mus. St. P^tersb. vii. p. 80(1902) : 

 nom. prseocc. Walk. (1851), 



Cixius merula, sp. n. 



Vertex of head and pronotum ochraceous, disk of vertex 

 more or lesspiceous; face black, basal margin and lateral 

 and central ridges ochraceous ; mesonotum entirely jet-black ; 

 tegmina subhyaline with a very ])alo ochraceous tint, thickly 

 and minutely speckled or spotted with fuscous ; body beneath 

 and legs ochraceous, lateral areas of sternum, clypeus, and 

 basal and lateral margins of abdomen black ; vertex some- 

 what broad, narrowed anteriorly, margins very strongly 

 ridged and with a more or less obsolete central ridge ; 



