31(5 Mr. W. L. Distant on Homoptera. 



mentioned species it is evident that it is altogether distinct, 

 though unfortunately unlocalized. 



Anaya nicobarensis, sp. n. 



Body and legs brownish ochraceous; lateral spots to abdo- 

 men above, vertex, and face chocolate-brown ; tegniina 

 brownish ochraceous, the apical margin paler, about basal 

 half of costal membrane and radial area jet-black, clavus 

 piceous, a central discal white patch on which are three 

 somewhat large black spots, and beyond this white patch a 

 cluster of more irregular and smaller black spots ; wings pale 

 fuliginous, with greyish-white streaks between the veins on 

 basal area ; vertex transverse, centrally ridged and laterally 

 carinate; face about as broad as long, centrally ridged, 

 laterally broadly laminately ridged ; tegmina with the costal 

 margin arched at base, the apical margin truncate; costal 

 membrane a little wider than radial area ; clavus somewhat 

 strongly granulose. 



Long., excl. tegm., 6^ mm. ; exp. tegrn. 17 mm. 



Hab. Nicobar Islands ; Narcondam (G. Royers, Brit. Mus.). 



Gen. ? basalts. 



Flatoides basalts, Walk. List Horn. ii. p. 419 (1851) ; Melich. Ann. 

 Hofmus. Wien, xvii. p. 228 (1902). 



This species apparently represents a new genus near Anaya. 

 The condition of the unique unlocalized type, however, 

 scarcely warrants generic description. 



Genus Cyphopterum. 



Cyphopterum, Amyot. Ann. Sue. Ent. Fr. (2) v. p. 176 (1847) ; Melich. 

 Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung. iii. p. 475 (1905). 



Cyphopterum retusum. 



Issus retusus, Walk. List Horn. ii. p. 871 (1851). 



Cyphopterum retusum, Melich. Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung. iii. p. 477 (1905). 



Hysteropterum curvipenne, Walk. Ins. Saund., Horn. p. 45 (1858). 



The species described by Walker as Hysteropterum curvi- 

 penne is located as from " Port Philip." This is evidently 

 incorrect, as it is an undoubted synonym of C. retusum. 



The British Museum possesses a long series collected by 

 Mr. Wollaston at the Cape Verde Islands, besides specimens 

 from Madeira. 



