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eyes, apically narrowly truncate, longituclinall}- impressed, keeled 

 medianly somewhat feebly; the head not impressed at the junc- 

 tion of vertex and frons and so separating- them. Frcns elongate, 

 longitudinally impressed, basally constricted, apically truncate. 

 Antennae short, subcylindric, subbifid apically, surrounded bv a 

 lobe of the pronotum. Pronotum deeply angulately emarginate 

 in the middle ; scutellum elongate, diamond-shaped. Tegmina 

 elongate, apicallv ampliated and rounded. 



I. imthurni sp. no.v. 

 Pis. XIX, figs. 1-3 and PI. XX, figs. 3-5. 



Fuscous, grading to blackish in parts especially on the basal 

 two-thirds of the scutellum ; keels, foliaceous part of pronotum, 

 &c., pale brownish-yellow. Scutellum with a yellowish line down 

 the middle, broadening a little at the posterior angle. Legs testa- 

 ceous, fere and middle femora faintly fuscous apically, hind fe- 

 mora faintly fuscous, aunulated with testaceous ; fore and middle 

 tibiae fuscous apically. Abdomen dark fuscous, marked with 

 sanguineous and testaceous. Tegmina cinereo-testaceous. veins 

 concolorous , margined irregularly with fuscous, some of the api- 

 cal cells mostlv fuscou'^. apical margin very narrowly blood-red. 



Pength of body 4 mill., to apex of tegmina 9 mill., widest 

 breadth of tegmen 5 mill., narrowest about 3 mill. 



Hab. Viti Levu, Rewa (Mar., Apr., Nov., M.). 



The male genitalia are figured on PI. XIX, figs. 1-3. 



In accordance with a request from Mr. Muir, I name this inter- 

 esting form after His Excellency Sir E. F. im Thurn, Governor 

 of Fiji, a zealous naturalist and well known traveller, who afford- 

 ed Mr. Muir great facilities and showed him much kindness dur- 

 ing his researches in the Fiji Isles. 



Proutista. 



Pvoutista Kirkaldy 1906 Entom. XXXVH 279. 



= \\Assamia Buckton 1896 Tnd. Mus. Notes W. p. i. 



=Sardis Kirkaldy 1906 Bull. Ent. H. S. P. A. I 426. 



=Phenice Distant 1906 Earn. Ind.. Rh. TIT 295 (not We.st- 

 wood ) . 



Distant cities frifUlaris (Boh.) as the type of Phcnicc. but the 

 true type is fasciolata (Boh.). I am aware that Westwood con- 

 sidered that the first species in a genus should as a rule be the 



