MIMICTIY AMONGST THE HLATTID.fi. ;569 



o'. Tcp:miii:i not decjily punctatu. 



C. (irouiiil colour of tegniiiia oclireous P. nigroplayiafa, sp. ii. 



0'. Ground colour of tegniina rufous...: P. semperi, sp. n. 



4'. Macal;i! of tegmiiia ochreous P.rufa Kirbj'. 



3'. Teginina immaculate, margined with piceous . P. ligata Br. 

 2'. Ground-colour of tegmiua piceous or dark cas- 

 taneous. 

 3. Tegmina with not more than 4 rufous or 

 ochreous macule. 



4. Tegmina distinctly punctate P. qvadriplagint<x Walk. 



4'. Tegmina indistinctly punctate P.ui(fra, sp. n. 



3'. Tegmina with more than 4 rufous or ochreous 

 macula?. 

 4. Pronotum ochreous with 5 piceous macula: . P. gutticdUis Walk. 

 4'. Pronotum piceous with the lateral margins 

 hyaline ochreous. 

 5. JMaculie on tegmina ochreous, more or less 



cii'cular P. mimas, sp. n. 



5'. Macul;\; on tegmina rufous, more or less 



hand-like P. coeloplioroides, sp. n. 



Prosoplecta coccinella Sauss. (PI. XLVIII. fig. 5.) 



Prosoplecta coccinella Saussure, Rev. Zool. (2) xvi. p. 324 

 (1864); Mem. Mexique, Blatt. p. 173 (1864). 



$ . Head castaneous, vertex paler. Antennee castaneous at 

 base, remainder fuscous. Pronotum transversely elliptical, with 

 the disc piceous, punctate, all the margins testaceo-hyaline. 

 Tegmina dark castaneous, seriate-punctate ; mediastinal area 

 testaceo-hyaline ; a minute, smooth, flattened tubercle at the 

 humeral angle, a smaller one neai- the base of the radial vein and 

 a lai'ger one in the centre of the disc near the middle of the 

 obsolete anal vein, testaceous. Wings infuscated, veins cas- 

 taneous. Abdomen above fuscous, supra-anal lamina margined 

 with testaceous, sub-bilobate ; abdomen beneath piceous, nitid, 

 sub-genital lamina very large, semiorbicular. Cerci short. Legs 

 castaneous. 



Total length 8-9 mm. ; length of tegmina 6*2 mm. ; pronotum 

 2 '5 mm. x 3"5 mm. 



Philippine Is. (Paris Mus., type ; British Mus. ; Oxford Mus.). 



The species is not coccinelliform, but is more like a little 

 Chrysomelid. 



Prosoplecta bipunctata Br. (PI. XLVIII. fig. 2.) 



Areolaria h'qnmctata Brunner von Wattenwyl, Xouv. Syst. 

 Blatt. p. 261 (1865). 



2 . Very similar to the preceding species, but the head is 

 bright rufous, the palpi and the bases of the antennee are piceous, 

 remainder of antennte clear testaceous. Pronotum rufous, lateral 

 nifi.rgins testaceo-hyaline, posterior margin opaque testaceous, 

 with a fuscous line at the posterior angle. Tegmina piceous 

 with mediastinal area testaceous, a flattened smooth tubercle, 

 testaceous in colour, in the same position as the largest one in 

 P. coccinella. Abdomen piceous above and beneath, faintly mar- 

 gined with testaceous. Ooxse and femora rufous, tibias and tarsi 

 castaneous. 



Proc. Zool. See— 1912, No. XXIV. 24 



