332 Mr. W. L. Distant on Ilomoptera. 



marginal spots above and beneath, lateral margins of face, 

 a central spot to femora beneath, and lateral margins of 

 opercula reddish testaceous. Tegmina and wings pale 

 smoky hyaline ; less than basal half of tegmina and more 

 than basal half of wings black, these black areas with some 

 obscure longitudinal reddish-testaceous streaks, and the costal 

 areas beyond them more or less piceous. Head broad, in- 

 cluding eyes wider than base of mesonotum ; face broad 

 and subglobose ; rostrum just passing the intermediate coxae; 

 opercula reaching tlie third abdominal segment, their basal 

 inner margins moderately straight and contiguous, and then 

 obliquely divergent to apex, which is situate near lateral 

 abdominal margin. 



Long., excl. tegm., ^ 48 mm.; exp. tegm. 128 mm. 



Hah. Central Formosa [Hoist, Brit. Mus.). 



Allied to C. oquiloy Walk., but differing widely (;ipart 

 from colour) by the shape of the opercula. 



Division Polyneuearia (a/j^e, p. 293). 



By the kindly help of Mons. Joanny Martin, of the Paris 

 Museum, Dr. Handlirsch, of the Hofmuseum, Vienna, and 

 Dr. Gestro, of the Genoa Museum, I have examined the 

 types belonging to this division, representing species which 

 I had not Ijitheito seen. I can now with greater certitude 

 describe the following species. 



Platypleura longula, sp. n. 



(J . Head, pro- and mesonotum, tympanal coverings, 

 sternum, opercula, rostrum, and legs brownish ochraceous ; 

 abdomen piceous, the posterior margins of the segments and 

 the anal segment brownish ochraceous ; head with base of 

 face and a somewhat broken transverse fascia between eyes 

 piceous ; pronotum with the lateral and posterior margins 

 paler, sometimes greenish ochraceous, the disk with a central 

 longitudinal piceous fascia, which is sometimes subobsolete ; 

 mesonotum with four central spots on anterior margin, a long 

 fasciate oblique s))ot on each lateral area, and a small spot in 

 front of each anterior angle of the cruciform elevation piceous 

 or black ; tegmina talc-like, semihyaline, the costal membrane 

 and costal area, basal cell, and claval area dull pale ochra- 

 ceous, venation ochraceous on about basal half, fuscous on 

 remaining area, the transverse veins at the apices of the 

 upper three ulnar areas a little piceously infuscated, and a 



