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specks. Tegmina hyaline, tinged with cinereous, mottled with 

 light and dark fuscous; veins brownish, crossveins mostly whit- 

 ish. Femora blackish, at least basally and dorsally, fore and 

 middle tibiae annulated with dark fuscous at least dorsally. 

 Sternites dark fuscous, apically bordered with testaceous, nar- 

 rowly. 



Length 8^-94 mill. 



Hab. New South Wales: Mittagong (Jan. K). 



This form is a complete link between the ''Jassidae" and the 

 "Bythoscopidae" and points the way to the Stenocotinae. It 

 is a melancholy satisfaction to name this in honour of the ven- 

 erable Dr. Puton, on whom affliction has fallen so heavily. 



Xcstoccplialiis. 



Xcstoccphalus Van Duzee 1892 Tr. Amer. Ent. Soc. XIX 298. 



A genus noted from America, Ceylon and Japan ; I now add 

 two species from Australia and three from Fiji. 



Van Duzee has placed it near Aphrodcs, but he has I think 

 been led astray by the degradation of the wing-venation, which 

 could surely arise independently. Its place seems to me to be 

 near PliryiioiiwrpJiiis. 



I. vitiensis, sp. nov. 



Pale yellowish brown, eyes dark fuscous. Tegmina irregu- 

 larly, brokenly fuscomarmorate, 2 dark spots on the subcostal 

 vein, one near the base and one near the apex of the clayus; 

 one or two of the apical veins sufifused at their apices. Wings 

 hyaline, iridescent, veins pale yellowish brown. Subapical cells 

 of tegmen all quadrilateral or 5-hedral, none triangular, the 

 interior cell a little the smallest, exterior slightly smaller than 

 tlie middle one. Submarginal wing-vein absent on the first 

 fold of the wing. 



Female: 7th segment obtuse-angularly emarginate; pygophor 

 rather short, nearly as long as the ovipositor, with pale bristles. 



Length 5 mill. 



Hab. Viti Levu. Rewa (Mar., Muir). 



2. pallidiceps. sp. nov. 



Yellowish-brown, paler beneath. Tegmina yellowish hyaline, 

 faintlv marked with pale cinereo-fuscous, the exterior fourth 



