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hind it, the fuscous mark sometimes running into the sahnon- 

 colored streak, making- it fuscous ; wings white and white-veined. 

 Lateral edges of genital clas]iers subparallel to near tip, where it 

 becomes spatulate and rounded. 



Length, body 4 mm. ; tegmen 6 mm. 



Habitat : Laloki. 



I take the pleasure of naming this pretty little insect after ^Ir. 

 F. Rattle, with whom I liv^ed during my two visits to the Laloki 

 district of Papua. 



(3) concolor sp. nov. ( <5 ). 



Vertex and tegmen as in piiUatus. Like the proceeding, but 

 uniformly light reddish-yellow. Besides the absence of the color 

 on the inner half of the tegmen, the male genital claspers separate 

 this species, being longer, widest about one-third from base, 

 where it is produced into an obtuse point on upper edge, and 

 then narrowed to a fine, uinvard-turned point at the apex. 



Length of body 4 mm. ; tegmen 6 mm. 



Habitat: Laloki. 



(4) funcbris ^^. nov. ( <5 $ ). 



\'ertex perceptibly shorter than wide ; tegmen peculiar in hav- 

 ing the first medial sector forked from near its base. Dorsal as- 

 pect dark fuscous brown, ventral aspect and legs yellowish-brown ; 

 tegmina and wings fuscous, dark-veined. The whole insect, in- 

 cluding wings and tegmina, generally covered with flocculent 

 waxy secretion. Genital clasjicrs short, produced into curved, 

 pointed process on upper distal corner, and into a short round 

 process on lower distal corner. 



Length of body 3.7 mm. ; tegmen 6 mm. 



Habitat : Larat. 



Ccdusa, Fowler. 



Biol. Centr. Amer. Rhyn.. v..l. I. i). 112. i'l. 11, l-ig. 28. 



( 1 ) C. fiiiicsta ( ty])e I. i'"()\vler, t. c. ]). 112. 



(2) C. iriiosii, [•"owler. I. c. ]). 112. 



(3) C. riil^^aris { I-"itcli ). 



Pocciloptcra vnh^aris. I'itcli. IS.^7. Cat. X. V. Insects. 

 Laiiioiia z'lilifaris. LIiKt 1SS4 an<l niliers. 



