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Subfani. Cydninae. 

 Gen. Adrisa Amyot and Serville. 



Distribution: Br. India, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago, Australia, Tasmania, 

 Loyalty Islds. 



7. Adrisa nunieensis (Montr.). 

 Grohia tnuiirensis Montr. Ann. Soc. Linn. L^'on. V. p. 245. 1858. 

 Distribution: Timor, Flores, New Caledonia, Loyalty Islds. 

 Locality: Loyalty Islds.: Mare, Medou. 



Gen. Teabooma nov. gen. 



Distribution: New Caledonia. 



Broadly subovate; head nearly twice as broad as long, anterior margin roundl}' 

 subtruncate, the lateral margins roundly convex, lobes equal in length, ej-es obliquely 

 prominent but not quite reaching the anterior pronotal angles; antennae inserted in a 

 line with the eyes and nearer to them than to rostral sheath, about midway between 

 base and apex of head, four jointed, first Joint curved, incrassated, not quite reaching 

 margins of head, second and third long^st, second a little longer than third, fourth 

 Short, third and fourth thickened, pilose; rostrum reaching or slightly passing the 

 posterior coxae, second Joint thickest, laminately compressed, first Joint not quite 

 reaching base of head, second extending to anterior coxae, third passing the inter- 

 mediate coxae; pronotum centrally twice as broad as long, anterior margin strongly 

 concave, anterior angles a little prominent, lateral margins nearly obliquely straight, 

 a little rounded towards anterior angles, posterior margin truncate; scutellum a little longer 

 than broad at base, gradually narrowing to apex which is slightly prominent, corium 

 extending to but not beyond the apex of scutellum, its apical margins nearly straightly 

 truncate, very slightly oblique, the apical margins about half their entire length; mem- 

 brane short; costal margin of corium prominent be3'ond the lateral margin of the ab- 

 domen ,• legs moderately long, femora thickened, anterior tibiae broadened on apical areas 

 where they are outwardly longly, closel}', strongly spinöse; anterior tarsi inserted at 

 the apices of the tibiae; intermediate and posterior tibiae somewhat slender, c^'lindrical, 

 strongly spinöse. 



Allied to ^-Idnsa from which it is at once separated b}' the very broad head and 

 the truncate apical margin of the corium. 



Teabooma is the name of the principal native chief at New Caledonia when that 

 island was discovered by Capt. Cook. 



