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mesonotum black ; body beneath black ; legs brownish ochraceous, the femora darker ; 

 tegmina black, the apical area pale castaneous, four small ochraceous spots on lower 

 half and a little beyond middle, two above and two below the claval suture ; wings pale 

 bronzy brown, the veins darker; ocelli a little nearer to eyes than to each other; 

 pronotum finely punctate, and with a strong central longitudinal ridge ; rostrum 

 reaching the intermediate coxae ; posterior tibiae with two spines, a short one near base 

 and a very strong one beyond middle. 



Long., excl. tegm., 14 mm. Exp. tegm. 42 mm. 



Utakwa River. 



By the longitudinal ridge to the pronotum allied to M. rolerti Lallem. 



88. Megastethodon divisus. 



Cercopis divisa Walk. Journ. Linn. Soc. Loud., Zool. x. p. 279 (1870). 

 Mimika Elver. 



Genus Leptataspis. 



Leptataspis Schmidt, Stett. ent. Zeit. Ixxii. p. 81 (1911). 

 A genus found in the Andamans, Cejlon, Cambodia, Malayan and Papuan regions. 



89. Leptataspis discolor. 



Cercopis discolor Guer. in Eoisd. Voy. Astrol., Ent. p. 619, pi. x. fig. 11 (18:^5). 

 Wataikwa Eiver ; Utakwa Eiver Expedition. 



90. Leptataspis vcataikwensis. 



Cosmoscarta wataikwensis List. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1911, p. 603, pi. xlix. fig. 11. 

 Wataikwa Eiver ; Launch Camp, Setakwa, Utakwa Eiver Expedition. 



91. Leptataspis elegantula, sp. n. (PI. XXXIV. fig. 16.) 



Head brownish ochraceous, ocelli stramineous; pronotum black, the margins 

 narrowly brownish ochraceous ; scutellum brownish ochraceous, its margins paler ; 

 sternum and abdomen beneath black ; legs brownish ochraceous, intermediate and 

 posterior femora piceous ; tegmina pale shining castaneous, apical area black, the 

 castaneous area spotted with ochraceous, viz., two spots in costal membrane, three on 

 disk—one inwardly, two outwardly — a large elongate spot at base of clavus, a rounded 

 spot near its apex, and a smaller median spot above the claval vein; wings fuliginous, 

 the base narrowly ochraceous, venation black; head about as long as broad, deeply 

 impressed on both sides before eyes ; face globosely compressed ; posterior tibiae with 

 a strong spine beyond middle ; pronotum with a slender central longitudinal carination, 

 the lateral margins reflexed. 



Long., excl. tegm., 12 mm. Exp. tegm. 33 mm. 



Canor Camp, Utakwa Eiver. 

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