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tion of clavus much as in cnsifcra. The rest of tegmen agrees 

 fairly well with that of ensifera as figured by Schmidt, though not 

 by Distant. The scutellum is more arched and the posterior 

 margin is vertical and nearly as long as the distance between it 

 and the pronotum ; it is strongly compressed and tricarinate along 

 the top, the lateral keels being evanescent anteriorly, the middle 

 one evanescent posteriorly ; the process is arched and rounded, 

 the posterior being deflected. Head and pronotum slightly cari- 

 nate longitudinally. 



Length to apex of abdomen 6^4 nim. ; to apex of process in 

 straight line 9^ mm. ; to apex of closed tegmina 8^ mm. 



Habitat Amboina ( IMuir, Nov., 1907). 



FAMILY FULGORIDAE. 



The type of the genus Fulgora has been wrongly determined by 

 all recent authors. The genus was erected by Linneus in 1767 

 (Syst. Nat. (Ed. 12) I 703), and the type was fixed by Sulzer in 

 1776 (Abgek.Gesch. Ins. 85), as cnropaca Linneus. This being 

 the earliest genus, the superfamily and family take their names 

 from it. For Fulgora auctt. (type laternaria Linneus), the name 

 Lateniaria Stal 1866 should be used. The subfamily formerly 

 known as "Fiilgoriiiac'^ should be known as Lystrinae. 



Subfamily Lystrinae. 



Cyrpopfiis sitai'is Stal. 



Habitat Mexico, Cuernavaca (Koebele). The males are as 

 figured in the "Biologia," but the females have the orange-yellow 

 of the tegmina and wings replaced by sanguineous ; the head, 

 pronotum and scutellum are pale reddish-brown and the tergites 

 dark orange-brown, in the latter sex. 



Birdaiitis sp. 



A somewhat immature specimen from Amboina (Muir), may 

 be dclihuta Stal (from Ternate). but I can not obtain the de- 

 scription ; it is not decens or pallcscciis. If this specimen is. as I 

 suppose, a Bird ant is, then Stal was right in supposing that it 

 ought to be placed in his "54" division, as the "claval vein" runs 

 into the commissure before the apex of the clavus. 



Scainandra uicropc sp. nov. 



Apparently near S. hccnha, but differently colored. The upper 

 surface dark greenish-brown ; metanotum and underside, with 



