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peus rather obsoletely carinate laterally. Scutellum tricarinate. 

 Venation as in Carolits. Tibiae not spinose. 



1. obsciinis, sp. nov. 



TestaceoMs, vertex a little darker. Teo;minal veins pale brown- 

 ish, lightly granulate, slightly piliferous. 

 Length : 5 mill. 

 Hal:): Queensland, lUmdaberg (ix-xii.) 



Laiiiciiia, Stal. 



Lamenia Stal 1859 Eugenies Resa Zool. 277 PI. IV, fig. 5 ; Ash- 

 mead 1889 Ent. Amer.. \\ 4: Melichar [905 Wein. Ent. Zeit. 

 XXIV, 285. 



Hcrpis Stal i860 K. Svensk. Vet. Akad. Handl., XIII, No. 6. 

 p. 8. 



Stal placed this among his Derbida, while Ashmead locates it 

 in his subfamily Flatinae between Siphmta and Amphisccpa. It 

 appears to me to be a Cixiinc ; it cannot be placed among the 

 Derbidae because the anal vein of the tegmina runs into the 

 commissure and it cannot be a "Flatid," first on account of the 

 venation, and secondly because there is no trace of intervenal (or 

 any) granulation. It might be located in the Achilidae were it 

 not for the course of the anal vein. 



It has a very wide distribution ; i. e., well over the American 

 continents, Polynesia, Africa, etc. 



I. kitUa, sp. nov. (Pi. XXI, fig. 4.) 



Differs from L. vulgaris (Fitch),* by the frons being much 

 more declivous and the lateral margins distinctly, sinuately. 

 widened apically (in fitchi they are nearly parallel.) it differs 

 from L. caligiiica, orba, pallidovciwsa, fimbricola, etc., by the colour 

 and from liigiibriiin by the form of the frons. 



Vertex and pronotum sordid brownish, frons and clypeus sor- 

 did ferruginous. Scutellum polished black. Tegmina subhyaline, 

 dark smoky, with a blue tinge. Legs pale. Abdomen more or 

 less blackish. 



Vertex very short, transverse, anteriorly roundly truncate ; 

 frons with lateral margins sinuate, apically widened. 



* The only species I have seen, kindly lent me for e.xaniination by niv colleague, 

 Mr. Swezev. 



