4 



Mr. W. L. Distant on Homoptera. 313 



Geraldtonia uniformis, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, and mesonotum virescent or greenish 

 ochraceous and more or less centrally suffused with purplish 

 brown ; abdomen above greyishly tomentose ; body beneath 

 and legs pale ochraceous ; lateral and basal margins of face 

 narrowly sanguineous and the short central basal carination 

 of that colour ; tegmina pale ochraceous, with numerous 

 small scattered dull reddish spots, across disk before apical 

 area a narrow oblique pale fascia containing a series of the 

 dull reddish spots and outwardly margined with pale reddish, 

 granules in clavus mostly dull red, the claval posterior mar- 

 gin at a short distance from base purplish brown, the sutural 

 margin beyond clavus spotted with castaneous ; wings milky 

 white, the veins faintly pale virescent. 



Var. a. — Tegmina virescent, the pale oblique fascia not 

 outwardly margined with reddish. 



Long., excl. tegm., 10 mm. ; exp. tegm. 30 mm. 



Hab. Queensland (Dodd, Brit. Mus.) ; Geraldton, near 

 Cairns (Meek, Brit. Mus.). 



Genus Ormenis* - . 

 Ormenis, StSl, Rio Jan. Hem. p. G8 (1862). 

 Type, O. perfect a, Walk. 



Ormenis perfecta. 



Pceciloptera perfecta, Walk. List Horn. ii. p. 449 (1851); StSl, Ofv. 



Vet.-Ak d. Forh. 1802, p. 489. 

 Pceciloptera rufo-terminata, StSl, Rio Jan. Hem. ii. p. 11 (1861). 

 Ormenis testacea, Melich. (part.) Ann. Hofmus. VVien, xvii. p. 80 



(1902). 



Hab. Jamaica, Brazil. 



Ormenis testacea. 



Pceciloptera testacea, Walk. List Horn. ii. p. 456 (1851). 

 Pceciloptera varicosa. Walk. Ins. Saund., Horn. p. 53 (1858). 

 Ormenis testacea, Melich. (part.) Ann. Hofmus. Wien, xvii. p. 80 

 (1902). 



II ab. Amazons. 



* The large number of species included at present in Ormenis will 

 probablv at some future time receive generic subdivision. 

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