NEW LACEBUGS—DRAKE AND RUHOFF 167 
as elytra, narrowed at both base and apex, widest behind middle, on 
same horizontal level as sutural area; areolae of corium not very 
sharply defined. Dorsal surface sparsely clothed with tiny, flakelike, 
yellowish pubescence. Brachypterous form unknown. 
Typrs: Holotype (female) and allotype (male), Wadi Nouega 
(Galala), Egypt, on Gymnocarous decanter, collected by A. Alfieri, in 
whose honor the species is named, USNM 65123. 
Remarks: This species can be distinguished at once from S. africana 
Drake by the longer appendages, narrow costal area, coloration, and 
inconspicuous clothing of yellow flakelike pubescence on dorsal 
surface. The absence of ostiole and ostiolar sulcus and the presence 
of corial division in the elytra make the present generic assignment of 
S. alfierti rather doubtful. Only the brachypterous form of S. africana 
is known. 
Genus Catoplatus Spinola 
Catoplatus Spinola, Essai sur les genres d’insectes, p. 167, 1837. 
Catoplatus horvathi (Puton), new combination 
Monanthia flavipes Horvath, Berlin Ent. Zeit., vol. 18, p. 334, 1874, new homonym. 
Monanthia horvathi Puton, Synopsis des hémiptéres-hétéroptéres de France, vol. 1, 
p. 119, 1879.—Hiieber, Fauna Germanica, Hemiptera, Heteroptera, vol. 3, 
p. 343, 1893. 
As Monanthia flavipes Horvath is a junior homonym of M. flavipes 
Signoret, it is necessary to suppress the former as a homonym of the 
latter and then to resurrect from synonymy M. horvathi Puton as 
the available specific name. This homonymy heretofore has been 
overlooked in the literature. 
Genus Celantia Distant 
Celantia Distant, The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma, 
Rhynchota, vol. 2, p. 187, 1903. 
Celantia nitidula (Stal), new combination 
Tingis nitidula Stal, Svenska Vet, Akad. Handl., vol. 11, p. 130, 1873. 
Phyllontochila nitidula, Lethierry and Severin, Catalogue général des hémiptéres, 
Berlin, vol. 3, p. 17, 1896. 
This species is known only from the type specimens, taken in 
Western Australia. An examination of the type (Stockholm Museum) 
shows that it is a typical member of the genus Celantia Distant. 
C. nitidula is very similar in size, form, and coloration to the 
Ceylonese C. vagans Distant from which it can be separated by the 
slightly shorter and darker antennae (first two segments black, third 
brownish fuscous, and fourth mostly black), appressed occipital 
spines, much shorter frontal pair of spines, biseriate costal and 
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