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I'ergitcs mostly sanguineous. Underside and legs pale testaceous, 

 the former sometimes a little suffusedly sanguineous. Vertex 

 longitudinally sulculate, anteriorly somewhat swollen, longer than 

 wide, roundly produced before the eyes. Pronotum scarcely 

 wider than the head and only about one-half of its length, short- 

 er than the scutellum, scarcely emarginate posteriorly, lateral 

 margins short. Tegminal venation that of C I'ufo, except that 

 the interior branch of the first apical vein is curved. 



Female : last sternite very slightly sinuate, the pale part longer 

 than wide. 



Length 2}^ mill. 



Hab. Viti Levu, Rewa ( Mar. -Apr. ) Xavua (Feb. ATuir's No, 

 53) on a native tree, also on Sacchanim officinannn. 



There is a purplish bloom on one example, giving it a super- 

 ficial resemblance to Eryfhroiieiira doris. 



Erythronctira. 

 6. sidnica, sp. nov. 



Pale yellowish, immaculate, paler beneath. Head shaped as 

 in E. dentata (Gillette), but more rounded and the eyes more 

 decumbent on the pronotum, which is posteriorly slightly emar- 

 ginate. 



Length abt. 3 mill. 



Hab. New South Wales, Sydney (Jan. -Feb., K.j. 



In bad condition. 



7. doris sp. nov. 



Distinguished by the large pronotum and minute scutellum, as 

 well as by the colour. 



Head, pronotum, sterna, legs, etc., pale testaceous. Pronotum 

 laterally from antero-lateral angle of the scutellum to the mtero- 

 pcsterior angle of the eye, dark fuscous. Scutellum testaceous 

 tinged with pale purplish blue. Tegmina pale sanguinequs, 

 tinged with violaceous, basal two-thirds of subcostal and subradi- 

 al cells purplish, apical third of tegmina hyaline, veins pale san- 

 guineous. Wings hyaline, iridescent, tinged with fuscous, veins 

 dark. Abdomen dark fuscous. Vertex wider than long, extend- 

 ing nearly as far in front of the smallish eyes as basally, angularly 

 rounded apically. Pronotum large, a little wider than the head, 



