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Alcbra seems to represent very fairly the more i)rimitive forms 

 and I imagine it more likel}' that Profalcbni ha> hecn developed 

 from a form like Alcbra than z'icc I'crsa. .Ucbra-Vike forms by 

 losing- the submarginal vein that is to say, the apical margins of 

 the apical veins, develop into Zygiiia. Eiiptcryx, etc. I have no 

 specimens now of Nirvana for examination, but judging from i 

 Melichar's figures, it is very likely to be an Eupterygine genus. 



Cicadula. 



2. -c'ificiisis. 



Line 9 of description, for "with" read "wing." 

 Hab. Viti Levn. Rewa (Feb. :\Iar. Nov. & Dec.. M.). 

 One example is pale yellowish-green (instead of lemc\n-yellow ) 

 and the legs are green (instead of pale greenish) ; tlii-;. no doubt. 

 is the colour wlien alive. The last segment of the female is prac- 

 tically truncate apically. The ocelli are fairl\- well p''onounced 

 and lie within the pale oblong, bordered In- the two dark trans- 

 verse lines, on the top of the head. 



3. Iiyadas sp. nov. 



Pale lemon yellciW, paler beneath. Eyes greyish-black. Teg- 

 mina milky, a short dark fuscous line on the apical margin at the 

 basal internal angle and a greyish fuscous spot at the apex of 

 the tegmen. Wings milky, veins partly fuscous. A'ertex about 

 as long as the scutellum. shorter than the pronotum. nearly twice 

 as long medianly as at the eyes, angularly r(^un led in front. 



Female : ovipositor black. 



Length 3% milk 



Hab. \^iti Levu. Rewa (Dec, M.). 



4. cnryphaessa sp. nov. 



Allied to C. rnfa (Melichar). but the head is longer, pronotum 

 shorter, legs pale. etc. Bright scarlet : vertex pale testaceous 

 with a mediolongitudinal suffused scarlet stri])e. which forks at 

 the base of the frons and extends all over the face suffusedly 

 (sometimes the red stripe is obsolete at the fork, the frons then 

 being entirely pale, only the genae and the clypeus. etc.. red.) 

 Apical third of tegmina hyaline, iridescent, veins there pale yel- 

 lowish. Wings hyaline, iridescent, basal veins pale sanguineous. 



