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narrowed; femora moderately thickened; anterior femora with two long and strong 

 spines near apex. 



I place this genus near M/za/diis Dist. 



32. Baladeana macularia n. sp. (Plate XII, fig. 2). 



Localities: M' Panie, Cone. 



Ilead, pronotum and scutellum velvely-black; lateral margins ol tlie anterior lobe 

 of pronotum and a short central linear spot to the posterior lobe behind the transverse 

 fissure duU ochraceous, two discal spots to scutellum bright ochraceous; antennae with 

 the first and fourth joints ochraceous; second and third black, base of second ochraceous, 

 base and extreme apex of fourth, black; corium black, the basal area ochraceous, a 

 linear spot near middle of clavus, another on claval suture, two spots on middle of 

 corium and two more on apical area, white, the latter inwardly preceded by an 

 ochraceous spot; membrane black, opaque, with a large white spot near each lateral 

 margin; body beneath black; legs black; apices of anterior femora, basal areas and 

 apices of intermediate and posterior femora, apices of anterior tibiae, apical areas of 

 intermediate and posterior tibiae, and the tarsi, ochraceous; rostrum ochraceous, the 

 basal Joint black; antennae finely pilose; clavus with three rows of punctures, the 

 middle series shortest; other structural characters as in generic diagnosis. 



Long. 4 to 4"j mill. 



Gen. Lachnophoroides nov. gen. 



Distribution: New Caledonia. 



AUied to Lacliuophonts Reut, but with the antennae niuch longer, about as long 

 as from apex of head to base of membrane, first Joint considerably passing apex of 

 head, second shgthly longer than first, fourth shortest; anterior femora longer and 

 more robust than in LacJmopIionis, attenuated apically and basally, finely spined beneath ; 

 anterior tibiae strongly curved, as long as femora, finely but distinctly spined beneath; 

 pronotum broad, as broad as long; scutellum centrally foveate. 



33. Lachnophoroides ornatipennis n. sp. (Plate XI, fig. 9). 



Locality: Oubatche. 



Head dull piceous; antennae brownish-ochraceous, finely pilose; pronotum glossy- 

 black, the lateral margins ochraceous, scutellum glossy-black; corium purplish-black, 

 base of lateral margin ochraceous, clavus, two linear spots between clavus and base 

 of lateral margin, and an ovate marginal spot at about one third from apex, very pale 

 stramineous and more or less blackly punctate; membrane pitchy-black, the basal lateral 

 margins and the basal apical margins, dull greyish; head and abdomen beneath piceous, 

 sternum black, its lateral margins ochraceous; rostrum and legs ochraceous; antennae 

 with the first Joint considerably passing apex of head, second and third subequal, each 



