HEMIPTERA 117 



SiPHANTA Stal. 



Siphauta'^x.dX, 1866, Hem. Afr. iv. p. 238; Melichar, 1902, Ann. Naturh. Hofnuis. 



Wien, xvii. p. 36. 

 Plialaiiicsthes Kirkaldy, 1899, Ent. Nachr. xxv. p. 359. 



Allied to Psciidoflata Guerin, but distinijuished by the much shorter second segment 

 of the antennae ; differs from Carthaca .Stal by the unisjiinose posterior tibiae. 



Head, pronotum and scutellum lying in the same plane ; vertex roundly produced 

 in front of the eyes, horizontal, acutely marginate, medianly carinate, reticulate : ocelli 

 very distinct, first segment of antennae very short, second comparatively short, scarcely 

 attaining to margins of genae'. Scutellum tricarinate. Tegmina highly decumbent, 

 apically truncate, without any series of transverse nervures apically, densely reticulate, 

 costal area transversely venose. Posterior tibiae unispinose. Abdomen compressed. 



When describing Phalainesthes, I did not know Siphaiita except by Stal's too 

 laconic diagnosis. Melichar notes it as distributed over Australia, Tasmania, Java, 

 .St Helena, and the Hawaiian Archipelago. 



( I ) Siphaiita acuta. Walker. 



Poeciloptcra acuta Walker, 1851, List., 11. p. 448. 

 Phalainesthes schatiiiislandi Kirkaldy, 1899, Ent. Xachr. p. 359. 

 Siphanta acuta Melichar, Ann. Naturh. Hofmus. p. },-], PI. iii, fig. 13. 



Hab. Oahu, Hilo (Mus. Bremen); Honolulu Mts. (June, July), Perkins; 

 Australia and Tasmania (Melichar). I have seen 10 examples. 



Siibfam. FVLGORINAE. 



Tribe CI XI ARIA. 



In this little known tribe are included the genera in which the head is not angulate 

 laterally ; the anal area of the hindwings not reticulate, clavus not, or scarcely, granulate ; 

 and the claval vein joining the commissural vein near (but not at) the apex of the 

 clavus. There are usually three ocelli, but if only two, the clypeus is usually not 

 laterally carinate. This tribe shades into, and is probably not sharply separable trom, 

 the Dictyophoraria. Two genera are present in our fauna, viz. the widely distributed 

 Oliarus Stal, which as at present constituted is perhaps a little heterogeneous, and 

 /olania, which I have thought advisable to separate from the widely distributed 

 Cixius Latreille. O/iarus has five keels on the scutelkun, lohinia only three. 



' This corrects and amplifies my original description. 



