NEW MALAYAN CIXIIDA (HOMOPTERA) 
By F. Muir 
Of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Experiment Station, Honolulu 
TWO PLATES 
The three genera dealt with in this paper all possess a well- 
developed subantennal process in the shape of a keel across the 
gena. In this they differ from Myndus and allied genera. 
Measurements are from the apex of vertex to anus and from the 
apex to base of the tegmen. The types are deposited in the 
Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Experiment Station collection, and 
they bear the type numbers of that collection; the paratypes are 
in Prof. C. F. Baker’s collection. 
Genus KINNARA Distant, Plate 1, fig. 1 
Pleroma Me.icHar, Hom. Fauna Ceylon (1913) 41, pl. 1, figs. 12, a-c, 
nom. praeoc.; BIERMAN, Notes Leyden Mus. 29 (1908) 154, pl. 3, 
fig. 3. 
Rlendes Distant, Fauna Brit. India, Rhynchota 3 (1906) 289; 6 
(1916) 59; Muir, Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc. 2° (1913) 265. 
The genus Kinnara Distant is of interest as it combines charac- 
ters of both the Cixiide and the Achilide. The claval veins are 
fairly thick and fork near the apex of clavus; in some species they 
end at the apex of the clavus, in others they join the suture a 
little before the apex. The tegmina are tectiform or subtecti- 
form, the hind margins are not greatly produced beyond the 
clavus and do not overlap when at rest. The median ocellus is 
present in all the species that I have examined. 
In the female the genital styles are very short and do not form 
a complete ovipositor, a condition found in the Achilide. The 
posterior abdominal tergites of the female are mostly membra- 
nous, flattened, and form a large wax-secreting area. The male 
pygofer is flattened laterally and is cixiidlike in construction. 
There is a lateral appendage on each side which arises near the 
base of the genital styles and is more or less connected with the 
sides of the pygofer. The edeagus is complex, with a long, 
Semimembranous, curled tube at the apex. 
Until we have a greater knowledge of the morphology of the 
Cixiidee and Achilide, I think it is best to place all fulgorids with 
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