352 ME.W. L. DISTAISIT ON EHTNCHOTA 



apex of radial area and reaching costal margin, extreme costal and apical margins 

 ochraceous ; wings fuliginous, the venation black ; vertex with a central arched carina 

 between the eyes ; face tricarinate, the sublateral striations less distinct ; clypeus 

 centrally carinate ; mesonotum tricarinate, the lateral carinations curved butpercurrent 

 and connected with the anterior margin by an additional carinate line ; abdomen 

 centrally ridged; tegmina with the costal membrane moderately broad, the transverse 

 veins distinct and well separated. 



Long., excl. tegm., 7 mm. Exp. tegm. 23 mm. 



Utakwa River ; Base Camp, sea-level. 



Allied to E. discigutta Walk, described from the Key Islands. 



65. EURICANIA SPLENDIDA. 



Ricania splendida Guer. Voy. ' Coqiiille/ Zool.ii. p. 191, pi. x. fig. 10 (1830). 

 Mimika and Wataikwa Rivers ; Base and Canor Camps, Utakwa River. 

 This species is also recorded from the Islands Oorey, Mysol, Key, and Sula. 



Genus Yakcia, 

 Varcia Stal, Ofv. Vet -Ak. Forh. 1870, p. 769, 

 Found in the Neotropical, Oriental, and Malayan regions. 



66. Varcia sordida. 



Varcia sordida Dist. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) iv. p. 336 (1909). 

 Mimika River. 

 Originally described from Aru. 



Subfamily Flatiase. 



Papuanella, gen. nov. 



Head including eyes narrower than pronotum, vertex broader than long, anteriorly 

 triangularly acutely produced centrally and at anterior lateral angles ; face broad, a 

 little longer than broad, behind eyes moderately angulate and then obliquely narrowed 

 to clypeus, centrally longitudinally carinate, the lateral margins moderately laminately 

 reflected, clypeus centrally carinate ; posterior legs mutilated in unique type ; pronotum 

 narrower at apex than at base, centrally carinate, the base angularly concave ; 

 mesonotum considerably longer than broad, obscurely tricarinate ; tegmina about one 

 and a half times longer than greater breadth, apical margin truncate, posterior angle 

 not produced, apical angle rounded, moderately transversely veined, apical veins 

 furcate at their apices, costal membrane wider than apical area and rather thickly 

 transversely veined, claval area granulose and with obscure transverse veins in its 

 upper area ; wings about as broad as tegmina. 



I place this genus in my division Nephesaria. 



