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ON SOME AUSTRALIAN HOMOPTERA 



i»y \\.-Ij. Ili^tanl. 



This paper refers to some Aiislt-.alian tlomoptei'a, and Lhe types of 

 the new species descrihed ai'e inostly corilaiiied iii tbe Bi'itish 

 Muséum. VVe know couiparalivcly liltle ol'tliese iiiseels tVoin Aus- 

 tralia, exceptiug the Cicadkiœ aiid Meinhracido', liolli uf wliich 

 familles hâve beeii monograpbed by Goding aud Fiuj'iCATT, wliile 

 Westwood, Walker, StÂl, Signûret, the présent \vi-ilei- and other 

 e.itomologists liave also from time to time desci'ibed various gênera 

 and species. Some récent pubUcatiou at Honolulu on this subject, 

 as might be expected, lias created considérable synonymy, some of 

 which is hère corrected. 



Certain acrimonious sti-ictures wiiich accompanied thèse descrip- 

 tions may be benevolently ignored, tliough in some cases contra- 

 diction is necessary. 



Fam. CERCOPID^. 

 Genus EOSGARTA. 



Eoscarta Bredd., Soc. Ent., XVII, p. 58 (1902). 



Euryaulax Kirk. Rep. Exp. Slat. Hau\ l'iatil. Assoc, Pt. IX, p. rJSO 



(1906). 

 Type : E. borealis Dist. ■= E. eos Bredd. 



Eoscarta inconstans. 



TriecpJiora inconstans WAhK., List Ho m., III, p. 673(1851). 

 Euryaulax caUitettifioides Kirk., B.ep. Exp. Stat. Hatv. Plant. Assoc, 

 Pt. ix, p. 381 (1906). 

 Hab. : Queensland (F. -P. Dodd. — Brit. Mus.). 



Genus AUFIDUS. 



Aufidus Stâl, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., (3) I, p. 594(1863). 

 Aufidellus KmK., Rep. Exp. Stat. Haiv. Plant. Assoc, Pt. IX, p. 381 



(1906). 

 Aufiterna KmK. , loc. cit., p. 382. 



Aufidelliis Kirk. cannot be separated from Aufidus. The type 

 of Stâl's genus {A. trifasciatus) is in the British Muséum, as is also 

 a spécimen of the species descrihed by Kirkaldy as A . austvalensis. 

 The difîerential and only characters given by this writer « pronotum 

 posteriorly is almost evenly rounded and the costal margin is not 

 arclied basally », constitute (when the species is examined) only 



