348 ME. W. L. DISTANT ON EHTNCHOTA 



Subfamily Dictyopharinae. 



Genus Kasserota. 

 Kasserota Dist. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xviii. p. 350 (1906). 

 A Papuan genus. 



53. Kasserota albospaesa. 



Kasserota albosparsa Melich. Act. Soc. Ent. Bohem. 1913^ pp. 155 & 158. 



Head, pronotum, mesonotum, face, clypeus, and anterior and intermediate legs 

 black ; abdomen above castaneous, abdomen beneath and posterior legs sanguineous, 

 abdominal apex black; tegmina very dark fuscous, the venation black, the whole 

 surface more or less speckled Avith bluish pile, and with a prominent subapical white 

 spot near the middle of apical margin ; wings with about basal half pale fuliginous, 

 apical area pale bronzy brown, the venation black ; face considerably longer than 

 broad, lateral margins parallel, very slightly narrowed before clypeus, strongly 

 centrally longitudinally tricarinate, the lateral carinations a little convex and convexly 

 united at base ; rostrum slightly passing the posterior coxge ; femora profoundly sulcate, 

 posterior tibiae with three long spines beyond middle, and slightly tuberculate at base. 



Var. — ^Tegmina pale bronzy brown instead of dark fuscous. 



Long., excl. tegm., d 9J, ? 13 mm. Exp. tegm., c? 30, ? 35 mm. 



Canor Camp, Utakwa River ; Base Camp, sea-level. 



Allied to K. fwpillata Stal, and K. doreyensis Dist. 



I originally regarded this as a new species, but have just received Dr. Melichar's 

 paper on the genus which he has recently published. As, however, my description is 

 rather fuller and perhaps based on fresher specimens than were before Dr. Melichar, 

 I have let it stand, of course using his specific name. His type was from " N. Guinea 

 S.E,, Paumoma River " ; the transverse fasciae which he describes are only indicated in 

 two specimens of our series, and then only by one of the two he refers to — a basal 

 in one specimen, a discal in another. 



Subfamily TropiducHnse. 



Genus Pakicana. 

 Paricana Walk. Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zool. i. p. 158 (1857). 

 A Malayan and Papuan genus. 



54. Paricana curvifera. 



Paricana curvifera Dist. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xis. p. 288 (1907). 

 Wataikw^a River. 

 Originally described from Aru, where it was discovered by Wallace. 



