304 Mr. W. L. Distant on Homoptera. 



centrally and laterally carinate, face obliquely broadened 

 anteriorly, the anterior margin truncate, centrally longitu- 

 dinally carinate throughout its whole length, the lateral 

 margins broadly reflexed ; tegmina twice as broad as long, 

 apical margin subtruncate, the apical and posterior angles 

 rounded, the inner margin angularly sinuate at apex of clavus, 

 two transverse lines formed of transverse veins on apical area, 

 the outermost moderately convex, enclosing a series of narrow 

 longitudinal marginal cellular areas, the inner less well 

 defined. 



Long., excl. tegm., $ 4| mm.; exp. tegm. 14 mm. 



Hab. Queensland ; Kuranda (F. P. Dodd, Brit. Mus.). 



In colour and pattern of tegmina, but not in shape or 

 structure of head, somewhat resembling Colgar per acuta, 

 Walk. 



Melicharia unicolor. 



Massila unicolor, Walk. Journ. Ent. i. p. 315 (1862) ; Melicb. Ann. 

 Hofmus. Wien, xvii. p. 159 (1902). 



Hab. Moreton Bay. 



Melicharia lurida. 



Pceciloptera lurida, Walk. Ins. SauncL, Horn. p. 53 (1858) ; Melich. 

 Ann. Hofmus. Wien, xvii. p. 229 (1902). 



Hab. Gambia. 



A single typical specimen in very bad condition. 



Genus Siphanta. 

 Siphanta, Stal, Hem. Afr. iv. p. 238 (1866). 



Type, S. acuta, Walk. 



Siphanta utomaria. 



Pceciloptera utomaria, Walk. Ins. Saund., Horn. p. 56 (1858). 

 Y Colyar utomaria, Melich. Ann. Hofmus. Wien, xvii. p. 117 (1902). 

 Neomelicharia ? atomuria,Khk. Rep. Exp. Stat. Haw. Plant. Assoc. 

 pt. ix. p. 453 (1906). 



Hab. Tasmania. 



Siphanta stigma, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, mesonotum, and abdomen above ochra- 

 ceous, the latter greenish on basal area ; body beneath and 

 legs greenish ochraceous, tibiae (excluding basal areas) and 

 the tarsi dull pale reddish ; tegmina pale greenish ochraceous, 



