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Calliiicsia gen. nov. 



This genus is very close to Phciielia and Eiirynoinciis, but is 

 distinguished by the structure of the vertex as stated in the 

 analytical table of the Achiline genera. A black spot always 

 present on the mesopleura. Type piilchra. The four species- 

 all from Fiji — are separable thus: 



I Clavus and corium bright red striped with yellow. . i piih-Jira 



1 a No bright red stripes on the tegmen (2) 



2 Clavus and corium yellowish with pale brownish stripes; 

 clypeus pale (3) 



2a Clavus and corium greenish yellow with silver-grey or 

 brownish stripes ; clypeus black 2 ornata 



3 Clavus and corium yellow with broad pale fawn bands 



3 venusta 



3a Clavus and corium yellowish with narrow orange brown 

 lines 4 pnsiUa 



T. piilchra sjx nov. 

 PI. TX, f^g. 17. 



Yellow, legs and beneath paler; junction of vertex and frons 

 with a black horseshoe, a black dot on the vertex laterally. Eyes 

 black. Pronotum with a sanguineous spot anteriorl3^ Scutel- 

 lum with an angulate sanguineous stripe which passes over on 

 to the base of the tegmina, which are sanguineous with the fol- 

 lowing bright yellow marks : a broad l)asal stripe, running from 

 the middle of the basal margin to the subcostal margin ; an 

 elongate straight spot from commissure (at posterior angle of 

 scutellum ) half way across the tegmen ; an oblique entire me- 

 dian stripe runing subparallel to rhe basal margin, and 3 lateral 

 or sublateral spots apical of that, the apical one at least being 

 niargined interiorly with fuscous. Apical and subapical cells 

 hyaline (some of the outer ones sufTsued sanguineously) with 

 sanguineous veins. Vertex deeply impressed, middle keel o!)- 

 solescent. Labium reaching to middle coxae. 



Length 4^ mill. 



Hab. V\l\ Levu. Rewa (Mar. -Apr.). 



2. ornata s]). nov. 



Fulvescent or yellowish testaceous, the head marked as in C. 

 pidchra. Eyes and clypeus black. Posterior two-thirds of scu- 



