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HOMOPTERA 



subdivided into several small cells by tiansverse venules; tip sharply pointed; apical limbus narrow. 

 Legs heavy; femora cylindrical ; tibiae broadly triquerate, almost foliaceous; hind tarsi longest. 



Type traiisiens Walker. 



Geographical distribution : This isa rare Australian genus represented by only three species. 



I. areolatus Goding, Mon. Aus. Memb. 23 (igoS). 



2. godingi Distant, RhA^nch. Notes Sg (1916). 



rubridorsa Buckton (cabinet label). 



3. transiens Walker, List Hom. B. M. 624. 61 (i85i). — PL 13, 



fig. 2 11. 



Aiistraha,Victoria,Braidwood, 

 Queanbeyan, New South 

 Wales, New Guinea. 



Australia. 



South Australia. 



238. GENUS LUBRA GODING 



Lubra Goding, Mon. Aus. Memb. 28 (igoS). 



Characters : We have not seen either of the two species representing this genus. The 

 descriptions are very meager and the only figures which have been pubHshed are two unsatisfactory 

 sketches, one of a tegmen and the other of part of a pronotal process. Consequently, for a generic 

 diagnosis, we are forced to depend on Goding's original description of the genus which is as follows : 



« Head triangular, lateral borders sinuous. Prothorax rising vertically from the base, 

 the dorsum appears to divide into two long anteriorJy incHned horns which are enlarged towards 

 the apex rounded on the top (not truncated), the inner angles produced in triangular acuminate 

 spines, the surface reticulated ; the posterior process is much shorter than the tegmina and 

 sinuate. Tegmina with two discoidal cells, the second petiolate, furnished with a transverse 

 venule between two ulnar veins, near base. Wings with four apical cells. Legs ver}' shghtly 

 flattened. » 



Type spinicornis Walker. 



Geographical distribution : This is an Australian genus with two species as follows : 



1. regalis Goding, Mon. Aus. Memb. 3o (1903). Queensland, Brisbane. 



2. spinicornis Walker, Journ. Ent. I : 3i6 (1862). Austraha, New South Wales, 



Tweed River, Clarence 

 River.Queensland, Moreton 

 Bay. 



239. GENUS SARANTUS Stal 



Sarantus Stal, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 592 (i863). 



Characters : This genus is closely related to the three preceding genera and belongs to the same 

 natural group but differs in having the two long supiahumerals close together and strongl}' porrect. 

 Head subquadrate, broader than high; base nearly straight, weakly sinuate; eyes large, globular and 

 protruding; ocelli small, inconspicuous, a little farther from each other than from the eyes and situated 

 somewhat above a Hne drawn through centers of eyes; inferior margins of genae sloping, sinuate and 

 tlanged; clypeus broad, feebly trilobed, extending for half its length below inferior margins of genae. 



