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*Malandiola syscena Drake and Runoff 



Malandiola syscena Drake and Ruhoff 1962d, p. 788 [Northern Territory]. 



Type: Holotype 9, macropterous; Darwin, Northern Territory, Aus- 

 tralia; Drake Coll. (USNM). 



Distribution: Australia (Northern Territory). 



Host Plant: Unrecorded. 



Genus MECOPHARSA Drake 



Mecopharsa Drake 1953b, p. 96. — Drake and Ruhoff 1960a, p. 67. 

 Type Species: Mecopharsa hackeri Drake. 



*Mecopharsa hackeri Drake Plate 39 



Macropharsa [sic] hackeri Drake 1953b, p. 97 [Queensland]. — Drake and 

 Davis 1960, fig. 48. 

 Type: Holotype 9, macropterous; Connondal, Queensland, Australia; 

 Drake Coll. (USNM). 

 Distribution: Australia (Queensland). 

 Host Plant: Unrecorded. 



Note: Through typographical errors the generic name Mecopharsa was 

 spelled Mecropharsa and Macropharsa (Drake 1953b, p. 97). 



*Mecopharsa secta Drake 



Mecopharsa secta Drake 1960, p. 366, fig. 18 [New Guinea]. 

 Type: Holotype 9, macropterous; Eubenangee, New Guinea; Drake 

 Coll. (USNM). 

 Distribution: New Guinea. 

 Host Plant: Unrecorded. 



Genus MEGALOCYSTA Champion 



Megalocysta Champion 1897, p. 5.— Monte 1942c, p. 301. — Hurd 1946, 

 p. 474.— Drake and Ruhoff 1960a, p. 67. 

 Type Species: Megalocysta pellucida Champion. 



*Megalocysta pellucida Champion 



Megalocysta pellucida Champion 1897, p. 6, pi. 1, figs. 5, 5a, b, c 

 [Panama].— Monte 1942c, p. 301. 

 Type: Sex unknown; Panama; British Mus. 

 Distribution: Panama. 

 Host Plant: Unrecorded. 



Genus MELANORHOPALA Stal 



Tingis (Melanorhopala) Stal 1873, p. 130. 



Tingis (not Fabricius): Uhler 1886, p. 22.— Banks 1910, p. 57. 



Melanorhopala: Horvath 1908, p. 564.— Van Duzee 1916, p. 26; 1917b, 

 pp. 220, 818.— Parshley 1917a, p. 17 (key) .— Blatchley 1926, p. 490 

 (key).— Hurd 1946, p. 446.— Drake and Ruhoff 1960a, p. 68. 

 Type Species: Tingis (Melanorhopala) clavata Stal. 



