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Genus SASSULA to rei)kce Dety.v. (Vol. ]II, p. ;'.87.) 

 Sassula, Htdl, Of v. Vet.-Ak. Fiirh. Is70, p. 7()9. 

 Type, IS. osmi/loides, AVulk., tVoiii the Malay Archipelago. 



Sassuj.a sokucula, to replace Deti/a fuscomhidosa (VoL III, 

 p. 3SS). 



Miriza sorucula Stdl, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1865, p. 164. 



Sassula sorucula, Melich. Ami. Hofinus. Wien, xiii, p. 312, t. xii. 



f. 5, & t. xiv, f. ly (1898). 

 Detya fusconebulosa, Dist. (vol. iii, p. 388). 



Add : Ilah. Cambodia. 



G-enus G^TULIA. (Vol. Ill, p. 394.) 



The late Mr. Kirkaldy (Hep. Exp. Stat. Haw. PJaiit. Assoc, iii. 

 p. 98, 1907) wrote: — "Distant states that the head is considerably 

 narrower than the pronotum. This is incorrect as a generic 

 ■character, for in G. chrysopokles the eyes project very slightly 

 beyond the pronotum ; Distant's figure also scarcely bears out his 

 diagnosis ; moreover, the clypeus is not carinate, as, indeed, Stal 

 also states." This pronouncement of Kirkaldy was unfortunately 

 inaccurate and misleaduig. 



1. That tlie head considerably narrower than the pronotum " is 

 incorrect as a generic character " is an amazing remark when the 

 accurate figure of the Neotropical type (&. />/eiu';^6'/i?m. Walk. = 

 pudibunda, Stal) given by Fowler (Biol. Centr.-Am., Ehynch.- 

 Hom. i. t. viii. fig. 13) was available for consultation by one wlio 

 Mas evidently unacquainted with the species. The Australian 

 species llicania chrijsopoides. Walk., which Kirkaldy referred to as 

 typical of Oa't2tUa, has been so placed by none but liimself ; Meli- 

 char, in his Monograph (not having seen the species), merely 

 remarks " Sclieint zur Gattung Gcetulia zu gehoren." 



2. Stfd did not state that " the clypeus is not carinate," but 

 " clypeus lateribus hand carinatis." The clypeus in the type is 

 strongly centrally carinate, and laterally, in my opinion, also finely 

 carinate ; in the chnjsopoides, Walk., it is distinctly so. 



I have (A. M. N. H. (8) iv, p. 337, 1909) proposed the genus 

 JS'urunderia for the reception of chrijsopoides, Walk. 



3286. Gaetulia niontana, Dist. A. M. X. H. (8) ix, p. 651 (1912). 



Body and legs dull viresceut or greenish ochraceous ; anterior 

 margin of vertex narrowly piceous ; abdomen above; with a trans- 

 verse fascia before middle, followed by a broken longitudinal 



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