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Male macropterous; third to 6th apical cells smoky (except 

 a small hvaline spot on each, near apex), also around 2nd and 

 3rd apical veins. 



Female macropterous; tegmina immaculate except that the 

 apical parts of 4th to 6th apical cells are more or less smokw 



Length: 4I (male), 5f-8 mill (female). 



Hab: Viti, Levuka. on sugar cane (III, Koebele's No. 2346).* 



4. z'cisfatrix (Breddin.) 



DicniHotropis vastatrix Breddin 1896 Deutsch. Ent. Zeit. 107; 

 Zehntner 1897 Arch. Java Suiker \'., p. ? (Sep. p. 25); Krueger 

 1899 Das Zuckerrohr und seine Kultur p. 312, PI. XIV, f. i. c; 

 Busse 1904 Arb. Biol. Abt. Land. Kais. Ges. Amt., IV, 319-422. 

 Plates l-II, etc. 



Hab: Java, on Sugar Cane. (Breddin and my collection); 

 also_ reported from German East Africa on Andropogon sorghum 

 by Melichar (1905). 



Peregrinits, Kirkaldy. 



Pcregrimis Kirkaldy 1904 'Entom. XXXVII, 175. 

 Dicraiiofropis Van Duzee 1897 Bull. Buffalo Soc. N. H., V, 

 228 (nee Fieber). 



I. maid is (Aslhmead). 



Dclphax sp., Tyron 1889 Rep. Insect & fungus pests Queens- 

 land I, 193-6. 



Dclphax maidis Ashmead 1890 Psyche V, 323; textfigs. 



Dicraiiofropis maidis Van Duzee 1897 Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. 

 Sci., V, 240. 



Pcrcgriiiiis maidis Kirkaldy 1904 Entom., XXXVII, 176. 



Testaceous, often tinged with orange, carinae paler; t'he apical 

 three-fourths of the frons, the clypeus, first se'gment of the an- 

 tennae and the second (except upper side of basal half), smoky 

 brownish; lateral margins of scutellvmi dark brown. Femora 

 dark brown. 



Mah\<! dimorphic. Abdomen black; genital segments and 

 laterally, paler. Longwinged form with tegmina byaiine, some- 

 times tinged with yellowish; costal, median and radial veins pale 

 Ncllow, cubital and apical veins smo'ky, tihe latter sufifusedly ; fifth 



* Mr. Muir has recently found brachypteroiis forms of both se.xes. 



