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type, but he explicit)' stated that this was only the case when oth- 

 er reasons were absent (/' ). Now, Dcrbc fritillaris Boh. is the 

 first species described, but D. fasciolata is figured and the Hgures 

 taken as the basis of the generic description. I therefore main- 

 tain that fasciolata is the type of Phenicc and it certainly not a 

 Fhenice in a Distantian sense. 



1. hiniholtzi Kirkaldy. 

 PI. XIX, figs. 6-8. 



Sardis maculosa Kirkaldy 1906 PL 28, figs. 4-6 (not Fhcnicc 

 maculosa Krueger)** 



Proutista luniholtzi Kirkaldy 1907 A. S. E. Belg., LI. 126. 



Head and pronotum testaceous, a speck at the base of the irons 

 and another on the clypeus. and some suffusions apically on the 

 pronotum, blackish brown. Mesonotum castaneous ; a median 

 keel, a rough W in the middle, and the hind margin medianly, 

 testaceous. Metanotum dark, whitish medianly. Legs testa- 

 ceous ; fore coxae, a]:)ex of tibiae, &c., blackish. Abdomen testa- 

 ceous aurl blackish confused. Tegmina hyaline, marked with 

 blackish brown less closely than in nioesta. 



Length 7J/, expanse of tegmina 15 mill. 



Hab. Queensland, Cairns (Aug., P. & K.) on Saccharuiu 

 (/fficinaruju. 



The remarkable male genitalia are figured ( I'l. XIX, figs. 6-8). 



2. australis. 



Phenicc australis Distant, o]). c, 397. 

 Hab. Queensland. I'nknown to me. 



Nesouiphas, gen. nov. 



Vertex and pronotum raised and swollen vertically, the lateral 

 margins of the vertex (as seen dorsally) rounded and a])ically 

 l)roduced linearly between and beyond the eyes which are ver\- 

 large. Frons linear, narrowly channelled medianly. widened and 



* "I do not here insist upon the necessity of i)lacing a typical species at the head ot 



a genu.s but I do insist that where an author docs not state tlie particnl ar 



species which he regards as the type of his t?enus, we are l)onnd to suppose that he 

 would place it at the head of his genns." Westwood, April 18r!7 Mag. Nat. Hist. n. s., 

 I, 170. 



** Through the courtesy of Dr. Van Deventer, I have examined some Javanese 

 examples of PrnutMa mneka (=mrtCM/osrt), a species different from the Australian 

 one. The stridulating area of mne^ta is figured on PI. XX, figs. 8-0. 



