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I. paciRca, sp. iiov. 

 PI. XVII, figs. 13-14. 



Vertex, pronotuni and sciitelluni yellowish fuscous, keels a little 

 darker; face yellowish, lateral keels verv narrowly blackish- 

 brown ; antennae, labium legs, sterna, &c.. brownish-yellow, the 

 fore and middle tibiae obscurely biannulate with fuscous ; apices 

 of first and second segments of hind tarsi, more or less dark. 

 Tegmina brownish-yellow, a small dark spot about the middle of 

 the clavus ; apical margin dark and often the subcostal also. 



Male : sternites more or less ferruginous ; last segment deeply 

 rotundately emarginate ; pygophor elongate, very sinuate in pro- 

 file ; anal tube elongately produced in a horizontal direction. Geni- 

 tal styles contiguous inwardly for a third of their length, then 

 curving outwards and recurving, apices acute, nearly contiguous. 

 The entire male pygophor is very peculiar and very difficult to 

 describe, but the figures show clearly the salient characters. 



Female: sternites yellowish-brown, sutured with black, few 

 last segments deeply acute-angularlv emarginate. ovipositor dark, 

 much longer than pygophor. 



Var. strii^^afa nov. 



Female: a broad blackish-brown stripe down the tegmen from 

 base to apex, slightl}' outside the middle. 



Length 6^^ -6^ mill. 



Hab. Fiji (March. iMuir's Xos. iii. 114 and 145), Navua 

 (Feb. M), Rewa (March M). arboreal. 



Purohita Distant. 

 1906 Faun. Ind.. Rh. III. 465 & 470. 



This genus must be placed in the neighborhood of Asiraca on 

 account of the structure of the antennae and tibial spur, though 

 the latter shows some alliance with Perkinsiella &c. The hopper 

 has a close superficial resemblance to Olianis. 



I. ariindinaeca Distant. 



1907 E. M. M., XLIII, 10. 



I am obliged to Messrs. Mann and Antrim for specimens of 

 this pretty little hopper. Beyond the greater length of the sec- 



