Mr. W. L. Distant on Homoptera. 305 



excluding clavus and costal membrane thickly finely spotted 

 with greyish, white, the veins darker and green in colour, a 

 distinct small fuscous spot on central disk of apical area, the 

 costal margin from about end of radial area, continued round 

 apical margin to end of clavus, very finely spotted with dull 

 reddish ; wings creamy white ; vertex subequal in length to 

 that of pronotum, anteriorly subangularly rounded, the 

 margins distinctly carinately elevated and narrowly reddish, 

 two central converging carinate lines united anteriorly ; 

 pronotum rugulosely granulose ; mesonotum tricarinate, 

 obscurely granulose ; tegmina about twice as long as broad, 

 the costal margin rounded at basal area, apical margin sub- 

 truncate, the apical and posterior angles rounded; clavus 

 somewhat coarsely granulose. 



Long., excl. tegm., ? 6 mm. ; exp. tegm. 17 mm. 



Hub. Australia, sic (Brit. Mus.). 



This species is unfortunately not precisely located, but is 

 almost certainly from South-east Australia. 



Siphanta sp. 



Siphanta galeata, Kirk. Rep. Exp. Stat. Haw. Plant. Assoc, pt. ix. p. 453, 

 pi. xxxii. fig - . 11 (1906) ; id. Hep. Exp. Stat. Haw. Plant. Assoc, 

 Bull. iii. p. 99, pi. v. fig. 3, and pi. vi. figs. 3 & 4 (1907). 



Hab. Queensland. 



The head and pronotum of this proposed species, as repre- 

 sented by the two figures given by Kirkaldy (1906 and 1907), 

 are quite dissimilar, and cannot be taken to represent the 

 same species. As neither of them has been disowned, 

 S. galeata without an examination of the type (notv at 

 Honolulu) is outside present recognition. 



In the above publication Kirkaldy has unfortunately 

 increased his mystification of this genus by giving different 

 references to figures for the same species. Thus both 

 5. acuta and S. breviceps are referred {supra, 1907, p. 100) 

 to pi. iii. fig. 2, but in the description of the plates the 

 latter is referred to pi. v. fig. 2, while a comparison of the 

 figures on the plates will show that more than one genus is 

 represented. A glance at the venation of the species illus- 

 trated on plates iv. and v. (1907) will prove that contention*. 



Siphaxtoides, gen. nov. 



Vertex coarsely granulose, about as broad as long, as long 

 as pronotum, subquadrate, anterior margin truncate, a little 



* Since this was written we regret to have heard of the death of 

 Mr. Kirkaldy at San Francisco 



