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This is evidently closely allied to Liorhina Stal, but the ocelli 

 in the latter are functional, the tegmina more reflexed, the wing 

 neuration a little different, pronotum less emarginate posterior- 

 ly, etc. Stal has drawn the anterior margin of the pronotum m- 

 correctly — making it truncate, whereas it is arched. 



Philagra, Stal. 



Philagra, Stal 1862 Trans. E. S. J^ondon (3) 1, 592; and 1866 

 Hem. Afr. IV, 68; Matsumura 1903 J. Sapporo Agr. coll., II, 21. 



Chalepus Walker 185 1 List. Horn., 731. 



Distinguished from all the other Cercopidae by the acumin- 

 ately produced head. 



I. pm-va (Donovan). 



Fulgora parva Don., 1805 Ins. New HolL, Hem. PL I, f. 2. 



=:Chalepus teliferus Walker 1851 List, Horn. 731. 



■=Rhaphirhinus (?) parvus Walker, id. cit., 805. 



=Chalcpus piigionahis Stal. 1854 O. V. A. F., XII, 251. 



=Philagra parvus Stal. 1866 Berlin Ent. Zeit., X, 386. 



Hab : Queensland, Kuranda (viii). Nelson (vii), Bundaberg 

 (ix-x), and Brisbane (vi) ; on Casuariiia ; also recorded from New 

 South Wales. 



The males are a Uttle smaller than the females (males, 8|-iof ; 

 female. 11-12 mill. long). The two males from Kuranda have 

 the cephalic prolongations a little more turned up, and may be 

 spec'fically distinct. The colours and patterns are very fairly 

 constant. The species, as noted in the introduction, is a froth- 

 producer in the nymph stages. 



Polychactophyes, gen. nov. 



Allied to Hi'idola Kirkaldy. Vertex almost vertical, verv short, 

 transverse. Ocelli much nearer to one another than to the eyes. 

 Frons perpendicular (at apex) to the vertex, at ba^e about one- 

 ihird of the width of the vertex, broadening out a little towards 

 the middle tumid, somewhat lightly roundly impressed near the 

 base (as seen ventrally, (the actual basal part is on the dorsal 

 I'iart of the head.) Antennal peduncle short and small, antennal 

 ridges somewhat deep. Clypeus reaching to apex of anterior 

 coxae. Rostrum reaching beyond base of middle coxae. Prono- 

 tum roundly declivous, transversely striate, wider than head and 

 eyes, posterior margin deeply roundly excavated in the middle. 

 Scutellum much longer than wide, posteriorly acuminately pro- 



