78 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Of the " FlatidfB," 85 genera are recorded, with 497 valid and 35 

 doubtful species ; of these, 42 genera and 255 species are described as 

 new. It may be noted that of these, 32 genera are erected with only 

 a single species apiece; on the other hand, Elidiptera (= Flatoides) is 

 credited with 91 and Onnenis with 77 species. The genera, as founded 

 or confirmed by Melichar, appear to be well defined geographically. 

 Roughly analysed, there are 25 genera confined to the Oriental Region,'"' 

 20 to the Ethiopian Region,! 11 to Central and South America and the 

 Antilles, 7 to Australia and Polynesia, 6 to the Palsearctic Region,! 6 of 

 mixed distribution or more or less cosmopolitan. Only 8 genera, with 

 17 species, have been described from Continental Australia, doubtless 

 a small proportion. Of the 20 exclusively ^Ethiopian genera, 8 are 

 confined to Madagascar. 



While according every praise to the descriptions, analytical tables 

 of genera and species, and to the excellent plates with figures of 179 

 species, I must take exception to certain details of Dr. Melichar's 

 nomenclature. The principal mistakes or differences of opinion which 

 I have noted are as follows : — 



Band xvi. — P. 185. Acanalonia umhraculata (Fabr.) =florea, Stal. 

 I know of no reason for sinking Fabricius' name. The date of " Vet. 

 Akad. Verb. viii. p. 86," is, of course, 1869, not 1835. 



P. 203. Stal was quite correct in erectmg a new genus Phromnia 

 for floccosa and its allies, the type of Flata having been fixed by 

 Fabricius in 1803 as ocellata. 



P. 218. Cenjnia, Stal, K. Svenska Vetensk. Akad. Handl. iii. 

 no. 6, p. 68 (1861). 



P. 220. Cenjnia maria var. rosea, Melich. 1902, = var. rosea, 

 Atkinson, 1886, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Iv. pt. 2, p. 64 ; from Sikkim. 



P. 222. fenestra, Stal, K. Svenska Vetensk. Akad. Handl. iii. 

 no. 6, p. 68 (1861). 



P. 223. Fammelicharia n. n = Copsijrna, Melichar (nee Stal typ.). 

 Type maculata (Guer.). 



P. 224. Copsyrna, Stal, K. Svenska Vet. Akad. iii. no. 6, p. 69, 

 = Bythopsyrna Melich. Type tineoides (Oliv.). 



Melichar fixes the type of Copsyrna as maculata. Unfortunately, 

 six months previously I had fixed it as tineoides (Oliv.), the other 

 original species, the only one I was acquainted with. My paper in the 

 J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. was (p. 54) published Jan. 24, 1902 ; 

 Melichar's Band xvi. June 17th, 1902. 



P. 251. Pseudoflata postica (Spin. 1839) = niyricornis, Guer. 1848 

 (not 1838). 



Band xvii. — P. 19. Flata, Fabr. typ. = Cryptoflata, Melichar (see 

 my remarks on Phromnia). 



P. 30. Carthaa; type caudata, Stal, Svensk. Vet. iii. p. 68, not 

 emortua, as indicated by Melichar. 



P. 32. C. folium- ambulans (de Geer) = emortua (Fabr.). 



Pp. 83-4. Ormenis mendax, Mel., is stated to come from " Moupin," 

 and Melichar adds, " Dieser Ort scheint in Centralafrika im Cougo- 



■''■ That is, including Japan, excluding New Guinea, &c. 



I Including Madagascar. 



I Excluding Japan, whose Fulgorid fauna seems to be more Oriental. 



