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 4- kassiphoiic sp. nov. 



]Ialc: shining black; lateral margins of vertex, very narrow- 

 ly (and ending at the apical margin of vertex"), antennal pedun- 

 cle, and labium, pale yellowish. Tegmina very dark fuscous, 

 basally opaque black, shining. Fore and middle legs (except the 

 somewhat fuscous coxae and claws) bright qrange yellow; hind 

 tibiae pale at extreme apex. Appendix to tegmina pale. Wings 

 (lark fuscous, veins black. Vertex distinctly narrower at the base 

 than between the apical margins of the eyes, not flush with the 

 eyes at the former, diverging regularly towards their apical mar- 

 gin, scarcely one third extended in front of the latter. Antennae 

 inserted at about the middle of the interior margin of the eyes 

 (ventrally). tcmpora short, very narrow. Plates much as in T. 

 lahcna, but the hairs shorter and vellower. 



Var. Clypeus, and apical margin, very narrowly, of genae, 

 pale. 



Female. Larger than the male; a longitudinal elongate-oval, 

 ])ale yellow line on the vertex, not attaining (as a rule) the apical 

 margin or the base; genae (except a trifle fuscous here and there 

 sparsely) and clypeus pale yellow, as also sometimes the extreme 

 base of the lorae. Tegmina with the subcostal vein right around 

 t,T the apex of the tegmina, a long oval snot near the base of the 

 subcostal cell and a long suboval stripe extcoapicallv on the 

 same, a small spot near the apex of clypeus and another at the 

 base of the tegminal appendix, pale yellowish brown. Fore 

 and middle femora, tibiae and tarsi etc., bright orange-yellow, 

 hind legs mostly blackish, at least dorsally Genital segment 

 35. in T. kalvpso. but scarcely emarsrinate medianlv. 



Var. Sides of pronotum pale yellowish, narrowlv. 



Length (male) 5 (female) 6 mill. 



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



5. naitsikaa sp. nov. 



Similar to the last, but less polished, fore and middle legs 

 l^alc yellc.wish, the yellow' of the head and pronotum browner, 

 the head longer, etc. 



Male: black, with a strong, entire, wide, longitudinal pale 

 yellowish-brown, continued to the posterior angle of the scutel- 

 lum, the pale lateral margins of the head widening a little in front 

 of the eyes and meeting in a curve at the base of the frons ; 



