﻿53 



loilL^er than face, llattcned, (listinctly tricarinate ; pronotuin very 

 short, perpendicular in middle, shoulder keels very large, forming 

 very complete antcnnal chamher. posteriorly deejily angularly 

 emarginate in middle ; scutellum slightly longer than wide, the 

 lateral angles slightly behind middle, without carinae or with 

 three very obscure carinae (three light marks on some specimens 

 look superficially like distinct carinae ) . Tegmina as in Lyriccn, 

 a little broader in proportion to length. Lyriccn differs from 

 this genus in having a subparallel-sided vertex with a truncate 

 apex, lateral keels of face never contiguous, face widening from 

 vertex to below eyes, then subparallel ; clypeus conspicuously flat- 

 tened on sides, long and narrow in fr(Mit, distinctly tricarinate. 



( 1 ) P. jcpsoni sp. nov. {69). 



Pis. 11 f. 10, 111 f. 9. 



Head, body and legs light yellow, fuscous on gena in front 

 of the dark brown eye ; tegmina and wings hyaline with white 

 veins, sometimes suffused with fuscous over apical cells, both 

 opaquely white wdth waxy secretion. Hind margin of last ab- 

 dominal ventral plate of female angularly produced, the side of 

 the produced ])ortion being evenly and concavely curved and 

 starting from tlie lateral angles of the i)late. Male genital styles 

 narrow, sinuous, subparallel sided, rounded at apex. 



Length of body 3 mm. ; tcgmcn 5 mm. 



Habitat: iMJi. 1 take the i)leasure of naming this little inject 

 after Mr. !•'. je])S()n of l-'iji. 



(2) P. kturwlcsi i $ ). 



Head, body and legs reddish-yellow, tlu'cc distinct carinae on 

 scutelkmi. tegmina yellowish hyaline with darker \eins. wings 

 hyaline with yellowish veins; tegmina and wings slightly ()pa<|ue 

 with waxy secretion. Male genital styles evenly curved along 

 edge, roundly exi)anded on ajiical two-thirds of upper edge, with 

 a small round emargination about middle, apex ])(Mnted. 



Length of body 2.5 mm. ; tegmen .^ mm. 



Habitat: I'iji. T take the i)lea.sure of naming tliis little insect 

 after Mr. C. II. KnowleN of Suva. 



Rosace liar issa Kirkaldy. 



An. Soc. Ent. I'.elg. LI. 126. 



Type P. Jai'ana Kirk. 



I cannot find the t}'])e of this genus among Kirkaldy'^ collec- 



