418 Mr. W. L. Distant on Ilomoptera. 



strongly transversely striate, centrally finely longitudinally 

 sulcate ; abdomen moderately inflated. 



Long., excl. tegm., ($ 19-20, ? 18 mm. ; exp. tegm., (J 

 47-49, ? 54 mm. 



Bab. Queensland (F. P. Dodd, Brit. Mus.). 



Bceturia modesta^ sp. n. 



c? ? . Virescent or ocliraceous, probably virescent in fresh 

 or living specimens ; ocelli red ; tibiae and tarsi more or less 

 testaceous ; tegmina and wings hyaline, the venation virescent 

 or ochraceous. 



^ . Uniformly ochraceous in typical specimen ; front 

 anteriorly transversely subangulate, and centrally sulcate 

 between the ocelli ; pronotum with a central, flattened, 

 longitudinal, concolorous, fnsciate imjjression, whicli neither 

 reaches the anterior nor posterior margin, tlie lateral posterior 

 angles somewhat broadly posteriorly produced ; face with the 

 lateral areas oblique, strongly transversely striate, narrowly 

 longitudinally sulcate ; rostrum reaching the intermediate 

 coxte ; opercula very small, oblique, apically subangulate, 

 scarcely extending halfway across the cavities, and leaving 

 the posterior and interior areas widely exposed. 



? . Uniformly virescent in typical specimen. 



Long., excl. tegm., J* 15, ? 12 mm. ; exp. tegm., cJ 40, 

 ? 38 mm. 



IJab. Queensland (F. P. Dodd, Brit. Mus.) . 



Allied to B. vancoJor, Dist., but a smaller species ; the 

 opercula in the male much shorter and smaller and the cavities 

 much more exposed. 



Mardalana suffusa, sp. n. 



Vertex, pro- and mesonota virescent ; anterior margin of 

 front, a transverse spot to vertex near anterior margins of 

 eyes, surrounding area to each ocellus, two central longitu- 

 dinal fascisc to pronotum and the furrows and lateral margins, 

 four obconical spots to mesonotura, the lateral longest, ex- 

 tending whole length of mesonotum, the central short and 

 meeting two slightly curved fasciae which start from two spots 

 in front of cruciform elevation, purplish brown; head bcneatli, 

 sternum, and legs virescent, posterior area of the face, coxa3, 

 and femora more or less spotted witli purplish brown ; teg- 

 mina and wings hyaline, the venation dull virescent or 

 brownish ochraceous, tegmina with the costal area virescent 

 streaked with testaceous, extreme bases of both tegmina and 

 winffs ochraceous. 



