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IV. Notes on American and other Tingitid^, with 

 Descriptions of tivo neiv Genera and four Species. 

 By George Charles Champion, F.Z.S. 



[Read December 1st, 1897.] 



Plates II, III. 



The following notes were made while studying the 

 numerous Central- American species of this family of 

 Heteropterous insects {cf. Biol. Centr,-Am., Rhynchota, ii, 

 pp. 1-48). Most of the corrections in the synonymy of 

 various South-American species have already been noted 

 by me, but as they may be overlooked in a work dealing 

 with a limited fauna, they are here repeated. Professor 

 Poulton having kindly lent me the small but valuable 

 collection of American Tingitidge belonging to the Oxford 

 Museum — mostly from the Antillean island of St. Vincent,, 

 or from the Amazons (Bates), — some remarks on these are 

 added, with descriptions of one new genus and three 

 species. Herr A. Handlirsch, also, has sent me for exa- 

 mination a large number of American Tingitidse belonging 

 to the Vienna Museum : amongst these, there are speci- 

 mens of an interesting new genus, from Lower California, 

 allied to Acal'i/p>ta, Westw., a description of this insect 

 being included in the present paper. The opportunity is 

 taken, too, of figuring a number of the types of StUl's 

 South-American species, very many of which, including 

 those of all his numerous American genera, have been 

 communicated by Dr. Aurivillius of the Stockholm Mu- 

 seum. The two South-American species of Monanthia 

 described by Mr. Distant (Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1888, 

 p. Ixxxiii) are also figured. 



Phyllotingis, Walker. 



This genus (= Alyattes, Stal, 1865, and Euloba, 

 Uhler, 1884), based upon a single species from the 

 Amazons, F. arida, Walk. ( = eximia, Hagl, and pallida, 



trans, ent. soc. lond. 1898. — part i. (april.) 



