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fuscous streaks. Sterna and legs sordid brownish yellow. Ab- 

 domen blackish brown. Vertex with lateral margins slightly 

 converging apically. extending a little in front of the eyes. 

 Frons as broad as long, lateral margins strongly reflexed. 



Length (female) ^i mill. 



Hab. Viti Levu, Navua (Feb., M.). 



Lciriocssa gen. no v. 



Apparentl}- allied to Brixia, but the vertex is liroadcr than 

 an eye and well produced anteriorly. Antennae not exserted, 

 second segment globular. Pronotum of very different struc- 

 ture. Tegmina apically rounded, distinctly widening towards 

 the apex. Hind tibiae with 3 larger and sometimes one or two 

 smaller spines. Type forfricofiwrpha. 



1. tortriconwrpha sp. nov. 

 PI. XXM I, figs. 9-21. 



husco-testaceous, irregularly sufTused with fuscous. Disk of 

 scutellum tinged with ferruginous, a pale line down the middle, 

 darker fuscous outside the lateral keels. Ocelli ruby-i ed. Teg- 

 mina subhyaline, veins pale with dark granules and an ashy 

 fuscous band, etc., as in the figure. 



Length of body, 4^ mill; expanse of tegmina nearly 11 mill. 



Hab. Queensland, Cairns (Aug.), Kuranda (Aug.) 



2. I'itiensis sp. nov. 



Differs from the above by the more elongate and differently 

 patterned tegmina. 



Head, pronotum and scutellum sordid piceofuscous, underside 

 and antennae pale, 3rd ocellus rubid. Fore and middle femora 

 fuscopiceous (except the extreme apex and base), tibiae of the 

 same suffused with fuscopiceous. Tegmina hyaline tinged with 

 cinereous, veins cinereous whitish, basal half with blackish- 

 brown granules, apical half not granulate (except a few inward- 

 ly); two or three blackish-brown markings near the base and a 

 transverse band across the corium a little basal of the middle. 

 Wings milky hyaline, veins pallid. Labium reaches well beyond 

 hmd coxae. 



Length 5i| mill. 



Hab. \'iti Levu, (Mar., Muir's No. 142), on a native tree in 

 the bush. 



