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type, but he explicity stated that this was only the case when oth- 

 er reasons were absent (''•). Now, Dcrbc fritillaris Boh. is the 

 first species described, but D. fasciolata is figured and the figures 

 taken as the basis of the generic description. I therefore main- 

 tain that fasciolata is the type of P he nice and it certainly not a 

 Pheniee in a Distantian sense. 



1. lunihoJt.':.i Kirkaldy. 

 PI. XIX, figs. 6-8. 



Sardis rnacnJosa Kirkaldy 1906 PI. 28, figs. 4-6 (not Pheniee 

 maculosa Krueger)** 



Proutisfa hnnholtzi Kirkaldy 1907 A. S. E. Belg., LI. 126. 



Head and pronotum testaceous, a speck at the base of the frons 

 and another on the clypeus, and some sufifusions apically on the 

 pronotum, blackish brown. Mesonotum castaneous ; a median 

 keel, a rough W in the middle, and the hind margin medianly. 

 testaceous. Metanotum dark, whitish medianly. Legs testa- 

 ceous : fore coxae, apex of tibiae, &c., blackish. Abdomen testa- 

 ceous and blackish confused. Tegmina hyaline, marked with 

 blackish brown less closely than in niocsta. 



Length ylA, expanse of tegmina 15 mill. 



Plab. Queensland, Cairns (Aug., P. & K. ) on Saccharnni 

 offieiuarunt. 



The remarkable male genitalia are figured (PI. XIX, figs. 6-8). 



2. austral is. 



Pheniee anstralis Distant, oj). c, 397. 

 Hab. Queensland. I'nknown to me. 



Nesoniphas, gen. nov. 



Vertex and pronotum raised and swollen vertically, the lateral 

 margins of the vertex (as seen dorsally) rounded and apically 

 produced linearly between and beyond the eyes which are ver\' 

 large. Frons linear, narrowly channelled medianly, widened anr] 



* "I do not here insist npon the necessity of placing a typical species at the head of 



a genus but I do insist that where an author does not state the particular 



species wtiich he regards as the tvpe of his genus, we are bound to suppose that he 

 would place it at the head of his genus." Westwood, April 1837 Mag. Nat. Hist. n. s., 

 I, 170. 



** Through the courtesy of Dr. Van Deventer, I have examined some .Javanese 

 examples of PrmitMa moeka (—tnaculom), a species different from the Australian 

 one. The stridulating area of mnesta is figured on PI. XX, flgs. 8-9. 



