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Alcbra seems to represent very fairly the more ])rimitive forms 

 and I imagine it more likely that Protalcbra has lieen developed 

 from a form like Alcbra than z'icc rcrsa. .HcbraAike forms b\- 

 losing the submarginal vein that is to sa\-, the apical margins of 

 the apical veins, develop into Zygiiia, Eiiptcryx, etc. I have no 

 specimens now of Nirvana for examination, but judging from 

 Melichar's figures, it is very likely to be an Eupterygine genus. 



Cicadula. 



2. vificnsis. 



Line 9 of description, for "with" read "wing." 

 Hab. Viti Levn, Rewa (Feb. Ivlar. Nov. & Dec.. AI.). 

 One example .is pale _vcllowish-green (instead of lemcn-yellow) 

 and the legs are green (instead of pale greenish) ; thi^, no doubt, 

 is the colour when alive. The last segment of the female is prac- 

 tically truncate apically. The ocelli are fairlv well p'-onounced 

 and lie within the pale oblong, bordered by the two dark trans- 

 verse lines, on the to]) of the head. 



3. hyadas sp. no v. 



Pale lemon yellow, paler beneath. E}es grevish-ltlack. Teg- 

 mina milky, a short dark fuscous line on the apical margin at the 

 basal internal angle and a greyish fuscous spot at the apex of 

 the tegmen. Wings milky, veins partly fuscous. A'ertex about 

 as long as the scutellum, shorter than the pronotum, nearly twice 

 as long medianly as at the eyes, angularly rounded in front. 



Female : ovipositor black. 



Length s}i mill. 



Hab. Viti Levu, Rewa (Dec, M.). 



4. enryphaessa sp. nov. 



Allied to C. nifa (Melichar), but the head is longer, pronotum 

 shorter, legs pale, etc. Bright scarlet ; vertex pale testaceous 

 with a mediolongitudinal suffused scarlet stripe, which forks at 

 the base of the frons and extends all over the face suffusedly 

 (sometimes the red stripe is obsolete at the fork, the frons then 

 being entirely pale, only the genae and the clypeus, etc., red.) 

 Apical third of tegmina hyaline, iridescent, veins there pale yel- 

 lowish. Wings hyaline, iridescent, basal veins pale sanguineous. 



