﻿(S. 7'01'ici^afa sp. nov. (Fig. 2.) 



Male macroptcrous. WMtex, ])ron()tum, and .scutellum, yellow- 

 ish brown, broadly whitish along keels ; antennae, frons be- 

 tween eyes, and clypeus brown, former with light spots; 

 frons below eyes and apex of cly])ens, white. I-cgs. white ; 

 anterior and intermediate tarsi and band on tibia, dark ; 

 dark longitudinal mark on femora ; spur, light. Pleural spot, 

 small. Abdomen, piceous, marked with brown. Tegmina, 

 hyaline : yellowish between dorsum and axillary veins and across 

 distal part of subcostal cell ; between anal and axillary veins, basal 

 half of median and spreading into radial. 5 to 8 apical cells, also 

 along apical vein 2 to 4, dark brown ; white spot at edge of 5 to 

 7 and across middle of 5 apical cells. A'eins, light, granules ex- 

 ceedingly fine and sparse. Anal spines curved, pointing distally. 

 (lenital styles large, reaching past middle of pygophor, horn- 

 shaped and twisted, without any lateral prongs. Ventral spines 

 large, reaching about to middle of pygophor, sub-c\lindrical and 

 rounded at ends, swollen about middle, from which point they 

 divaricate. The pattern on wings and large ventral spines dis- 

 tinguishes this species. 



Female macro])terous, similar to male, except the abdomen, 

 which is lighter. Length : male 2.? mm, 4 mm ; female, 3.5 mm, 

 ? mm. 



llabitat, Laloki River, British Xew Guinea, on sugar cane. 



