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dian band, into which, near its middle, enters a narrow stripe 

 arising near the extrobasal angle of tegmen. The ground color 

 of tegmina is creamy, veins pale yellow. Legs pale sordid testa- 

 ceous, apex of each segment narrowly black. Eyes and abdo- 

 men blackish. 



Length : 4f mill. 



Hab: Viti Isles (iii). 



Basikoccphahis, gen. nov. 



Distinguished by the remarkable form of the pronotum. Head 

 produced distinctly in front of eyes, vertex indistinctly separated 

 from frons, the former elongate triangular, disk concave, the 

 anterior converging lateral margins blunt, strewn thickly with 

 sensory organs. Frons narrow, 'but the acute lateral margins 

 not nearly contiguous. Clypeus rather longer than the head, 

 stringly tricarinate. Antennae articulated remote from the ge- 

 nae, short, somewhat glo'bose. Pronotum transverse, much 

 wider than the head, medianly carinate, laterally foliaceous, re- 

 curved, practically enclosing the antennae except from in front. 

 Scutel'um polished, obsolescently carinate. Tegmina elongate, 

 narrow. Tegailae subfoliaceous. 



I. thaiunatonotus, sp. nov. 



More or less pale fulvotestaceous, a black spot on anterior 

 ambulacra. Tegmina subhyaline, pale pinkish white, costal cell 

 whitish, veins coralline, 2 or 3 more or less entire, narrow, dark 

 brown longitudinal stripes on tegmina. Genital segment dark. 



Length : 3 mill to apex of abdomen, 6:^ to apex of tegmina. 



Hab: Queensland, Kuranda (viii). 



Thyroccphalus, gen. nov. 



Vertex a little longer than wide, produced in front of eyes, 

 middle of the disk sunken, lateral margins widely flat and raised, 

 strewn with sensory organs, converging slightly not meeting an- 

 teriorly, anterior margin truncate, posterior margin acute, ele- 

 vated, truncate (the lateral marg'ns are produced a little pos- 

 teriorly 'beyond the base) posterolateral angles acute. Frons 

 narrow, lateral margins acute, stronglv elevated vertically, wider 

 apically than basally. a little constricted medianlv. Antennae 

 short, rather smoothly subglobose. Pronotum wider than head, 



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