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eyes, apically narrowly truncate, longitudinally impressed, keeled 

 medianly somewhat feebly ; the head not impressed at the junc- 

 tion of vertex and frons and so separating them. Frons elongate, 

 longitudinally niipressed, basally constricted, apically truncate. 

 Antennae short, subcylindric, subbifid apically, surrounded by a 

 lobe of the pronotum. Pronotum deeply angulately emarginate 

 Hi the middle : scutellum elongate, diamond-shaped. Tegmina 

 elongate, apicallv ampliated and rounded. 



I. imthnrni sp. nov. 

 Pis. XIX, figs. 1-3 and PI. XX, figs. 3-5. 



Fuscous, grading to blackish in parts especially on the basal 

 two-thirds of the scutellum ; keels, foliaceous part of pronotum. 

 (Src, pale brownish-yellow. Scutellum with a yellowish line down 

 the middle, broadening a little at the posterior angle. Legs testa- 

 ceous, fere and middle femora faintly fuscous apically, hind fe- 

 mora faintly fuscous, annulated with testaceous ; fore and middle 

 tibiae fuscous apically. Abdomen dark fuscous, marked with 

 sanguineous and testaceous. Tegmina cinereo-testaceous, veins 

 concolorous , margined irregularly with fuscous, some of the api- 

 cal cells mostly fuscous, apical margin very narrowly blood-red. 



Length of body 4 mill., to apex of tegmina Q mill, widest 

 breadth of tegmen 5 mill., narrowest about 3 mill. 



Hab. Viti Levu, Rewa (Mar., Apr., Nov., M.). 



The male genitalia are figured ou PI. XIX, figs. 1-3. 



In accordance with a request from Mr. Muir, I name this inter- 

 esting form after His Excellency Sir E. F. im Thurn, Governor 

 of Fiji, a zealous naturalist and well known traveller, who afford- 

 ed Mr.' Muir great facilities and showed him much kindness dur- 

 ing his researches in the Fiji Isles. 



Proutista. 



Froutista Kirkaldy 1906 Entom. XXXVII 279. 



= \\Assamia Buckton 1896 Ind. Mus. Notes W. p. i. 



=Sardis Kirkaldy 1906 Bull. Ent. H. S. P. A. I 426. 



=Phenicc Distant 1906 Fam. Ind.. Rh. Ill 295' (not West- 

 wood ) . 



Distant cities fritillans (Boh.) as the type of Phcnice, but the 

 true type is fascioJata (Boh.). T am aware that Westwood con- 

 sidered that the first species in a genus should as a rule be the 



