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flattened apically. Antennae very short. In profile the head and 

 pronotuni are about equally raised but there is a deep cleft between 

 the two down to their meeting- place. Pronotum posteriori) 

 cmarginate in tlie middle, scutellum flat, not carinate. 



I. insignissima sp. nov. 

 PI. XIX, figs. lo-ii. 



Whitish testaceous, whiter above; frons margined with fus 

 c(^us. Ocellus black. Eye dorsally with an interior black line 

 w hich is continued on to the pronotum laterally. Tegmina milk\,- 

 li_\aline, a dark fuscous line on the basal half of the subcostal 

 vein, the tegmina also spotted elongately with gre\ish, veins 

 white. Wings white, veins concolorous. 



Length 5 mill. 



Hab. A'iti Levu, (Muir No. 55), Rewa Mar.-Dec), on Zin- 

 giber rjcniinbet (wild ginger). 



PhiladclpJicia. 



I. pandani. 



The male genitalia are figured PI. XIX, fig. 9. 



Mniria gen. nc.v. 



Distinguished from other Dcrbidac by the rudimentary wings. 

 ! lead and ])ronotum vertical, vertex very small, triangular, and 

 pr(Kluce(l linearly anteriorly, projecting well beyond antericr mar- 

 gin of e3'es. the latter being subcontiguous at about half their 

 length. Frons linear, acute. Antennae elongate, first segment 

 suliannulate but prominent, second four times as long as maxi- 

 mum width, about equal in length to the fore femora, obliquely 

 truncate apicall\-. the flagellum arising at the short end of the 

 truncation. Pronotum very narrow, deeply emarginate angular- 

 1\ . Scutellum rather feebly tricarmate. 



I. st rid Ilia sp. nov. 

 PI. XIX. f. 4-5 and PI. XX. figs. 10-13. 



Sanguineous; legs and genital segments (in ])art ) paler; an- 

 tennae testaceous. Tegmina hyaline, veins pale fuscous, costal 

 and subcostal veins, apical margin, &c., sanguineous. 



Length of body 2 mill., to apex to tegmen 51^ mill. 



Hab. Viti Levu. Rewa (Mar., Muir's No. 159), oft:' a low, 

 native palm. 



