A 00 Mr. W. L. Distant on 



apices of the femora luteous, bases of the intermediate and 

 posterior tibiae virescent ; tegmina and wings hyaline, the 

 venation and costal membrane dark castaneous ; anterior 

 femora thickened and with three black spines beneath. 

 Rostrum passing the intermediate coxae. 



Long., excl tegm., 21 ; exp. tegm. 65 mm. 



Ilab. Dumbea. 



MOUIA, gen. nov. 



<£. Head (including eyes) about as wide as base of pro- 

 notum, only about half as lung as breadth between eyes, the 

 anterior margin moderately truncate, more or less longitu- 

 dinally incised ; face longer than broad, the head on each 

 side of it moderately- laterally fovea te j pronotum about half 

 as long as broad at base, the basal marginal area distinctly 

 moderately protubeiant at each lateral angle ; mesonotum 

 (including cruciform elevation) a little longer than head and 

 pronotum together j tympana entirely exposed ; opercnla not 

 completely covering the sonorous cavities but almost meeting 

 each other at base, their apical margins broadly rounded ; 

 rostium reaching the intermediate coxse; abdomen short, 

 robust, scarcely longer than breadth at base, basal margins of 

 the doisal segments prominent ; anterior femora strongly 

 incrassated and piominenlly spined beneath; tegmina and 

 wings hyaline; tegmina with the upper vein of the lower 

 ulnar area more or less fused with the lower vein to the radial 

 area beyond the apex of the basal cell. 



Included in the division Melampsaltaria, Dist. 



Mouia variabilis, sp. n. 



J . Body above dull virescent ; body beneath, legs, and 

 rostrum ochraceous ; ocelli shining reddish oehraceousj eyes 

 pieeous; tympana pale purplish brown; anterior femora 

 beneath with three strong blackish spines, decreasing in 

 length from basal spine ; rostrum reaching the intermediate 

 coxa*, its apex black; opercula with the lateral and apical 

 margins broadly rounded, not meeting at inner margins nor 

 completely covering the sonorous cavities ; tegmina and wings 

 hyaline, venation blackish, more ochraceous on basal half. 



Long., excl. tegm., $ , 29.; exp. tegm. 80 mm. 



Var. a. — Body above dull greenish. 



Yar. b. — Head and pronotum dull greenish ; abdomen 

 reddish ochraceous. 



Yar. c. — Body above pale sanguineous. 



Ilab. Ml. Mum Piaine des Lie.-. 



