24 ARKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI. BAND 12. NIO 17. 



Tnestra should be referred to this division also on account of 

 the broad front. If the width of the front is regarded as of 

 more import ance than the lateral carination of the clypeus, 

 Osaka and Syndetica must be placed in the Eicaniaria} Under 

 t hese circumstances I think it more judicious not to separate 

 the Bladinaria from the Ricaniaria. 



34. Syndetica interserta n. sp. 



Supra picea, carinis verticis, pronoti mesonotique, macula 

 parva rotundata intralateraU verticis, macula laterali pronoti, 

 vittis duabus et apice mesonoti vittaque dorsah abdominis 

 flavo-testaceis; subtus cum rostro et pedibus straminea, fascia 

 angusta percurrente superiore frontis, serie macularum parva - 

 rum ad marginem exteriorem carinarum laterahum hujus, 

 atomis paucis inter has carinas, macuUs paucis minutis pec- 

 toris apiceque spinularum tibiarum posticarum piceis, Hneis 

 ahquot obhquis subimpressis clypei utrinque et striis duabus 

 femorum anteriorum dilute fuscis, segment o genitaU feminae 

 medio infuscato; tegmina nitida, hyahna, macuHs nonnulUs 

 parvis pallide fuscis prope marginem apicalem interiorem 

 inspersa, venis testaceis, hic et ilHc piceo-tinctis, apicem versus 

 pmnino piceis, venula crassa cellulam basalem extus termi- 

 nante saturate piceo-nigra, macuhs tribus majusculis membra- 

 nae costae albo-opalinis, venulis transversis harum macularum 

 dilutioribus. Carina lateralis clypei obtusiuscula. Long. 

 $ 6 mm., incl. tegm. 8,5 mm., exp. tegm. 16,5 mm. (Mus. 

 Stockholm. ) 



Some remarks concerning a few other Ricaniinae will 

 not be out of place lie re. — In his monograph Melichar inclu- 

 des in the genus Scolypopa Stål, in addition to the two typical 

 Australian species, also three species from Madagascar, but 

 only the two Austrahan species agree with the generic descrip- 

 tion as given by Stål and Melichar himself. The three Ma- 

 dagascar species must be transferred to the genus Privesa 

 Stål where they rightly belong. — Distant has recently 

 (Rhynch. Brit. Ind. VI, p. 115) identified Detya fusconebulosa 

 DiST. with Sassula sororcula Stål,^ but he has been deceived 



* In his generic description of Ecphora Sign. (»Expkora») Melichar 

 says: »Stim fast dreimal so breit als läng» instead of fast dreimal so läng 

 als breit. 



^ By a misprint in Stäl'3 paper this species was called »sorurcula», 

 which Distant has further perverted into »sorucula». 



