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with the overhanging fore margin vesicular ; clavus indicated by a network, 

 free, as well as the scutel : 7 species, e. g. T. cassidea, Fall. Gen. G. 

 Teleia : central field as in Orthosteira ; target of pronotuni quadrangular, 

 cut away in front ; clavus and scutel completely free : T. coronata, new spe- 

 cies, from the East Indies. Gen. 7. Phatnoma : central field narrow lan- 

 ceolate ; target of prouotum trapezil'orm ; clavus and scutel completely 

 free : Ph. laciniata, new species, from the East Indies. Gen. 8. Monanthia, 

 Lepell. and Serv. : central field elongated triangular ; target of pronotum 

 rhomboidal ; scutel and clavus covered ; antennae hairy, the third joint fili- 

 form or cylindrical ; head short, quadrangular in profile ; sheath of the 

 sucker five-jointed, long : divided into the following subgeucra, 1. Phyllon- 

 tocheila : with the sides of the pronotum dilated, foliaceous, reticulated : M. 

 cardui, L. 2. Tropidocheila : with the sides of the prouotum welted, and a 

 small foliaceous, reticulated, marginal piece at the angle of the neck : (e. g. 

 M. costafa, F.) 3. PJ/ysatocheita : with the border broad, turned in around 

 the sides of the prouotum, more or less bellying, and reticulated : (e. g. M. 

 ^-muculata, Wolff.) In all 33 species. Geu. 9. Wasmognathus : distin- 

 guished from Mouauthia by the pointed triangular head and the short four- 

 jointed sheath of the sucker : E. helferi, new species, from the East Indies. 

 Geu. 10. Dictt/onota, Curt. : differing from Monauthia by the thick, cylin- 

 drical, shagreened feelers, with coarse decumbent hairs (strigiliform) : four 

 species, e. g. T. crassicornis, Fall.) Gen. 11. Laccometopus : differing from 

 Mouautliia in having the last joint of the feelers short, thick, and not in a 

 line with the third. C. clavicornis, L., and one new species. C. Central 

 and lateral field of the netshards jointly bellying, fastigiated. Gen. 12. 

 Dorephysia, Spin. : the enlargement extending over the entire length of the 

 shards, and forming a keel above : 2 species, T. foliacea, Fall., and cristata, 

 Panz. Geu. 13. Tlngis: uetshards with the enlargement short, confined to 

 the central and lateral fields : 9 species, e. g. T. pyri, F. 



The excellent and accurate drawings of the author, representing all the 

 species, are unfortunately much disfigured in the lithographic press. 



NOTONECTIDES. Fieber (ibid. p. 11) has given a monograph of the 

 genera Sigara and Ploa. Sigara contains six species, S. mimitisslma, L., and 

 the Sardinian S. leucocephala, Spin., along with four species collected by 

 Heifer in the East Indies, S. grisea, striata, lineata, punctata. Ploa com- 

 prehends four species, two from the East Indies, PL frontalis and liturata, 

 and one North American, PL striola, being associated with the European 

 species, P. miiiutissima (Notonecld), Fabr. 



FuLGORELLjE. Westwood (Arcau. Ent. pl.71), has figured some Ame- 

 rican species, Fulgora (Episcius) amab'dis, Westw. (Ann. Nat. Hist. 1842), 

 from Mexico ; Lystra combusta and Cladopteryx oUiquuta, new species from 

 Columbia. Another new species from Brazil, Dilobitra siiboccllata Westw., 

 is described in a note. 



