28 Mr. W. L. Di.^taiit on Ilomoptcia. 



Ahiicta Burgessij sp. n. 



Body and legs ochraceous ; anal abdominal segment dark 

 castaneous, its posterior margin ochraceous; head with a 

 small spot on each lateral margin of front, inner margins of 

 eye?, tlie area of the ocelli, four small anterior spots to pro- 

 notum (two central and two lateral), and the margins of two 

 central obconical spots to mesonotura, piceous or black ; the 

 inner areas of the black-margined spots, a large oblong spot 

 on each lateral area, and a triangular basal spot tomesonotum, 

 brownish ochraceous ; body above and beneath sparingly 

 greyishly pilose ; two central fascias to face and a central 

 line to clypeus castaneous ; apices of tibia», tarsi, and rostrum 

 more or less piceous ; tegmina and wings hyaline, the venation 

 ochraceous ; tegmina with the costal membrane ochraceous 

 and the transverse veins at the bases of the second and third 

 apical areas slightly inf uscate ; opercula in male short, 

 transverse. 



Long., excl. tegm., (^ 18-19 mm. ; exp. tegm. 60 mm. 



liab. Queensland ; liipple Creek [Mrs. Jane Burgesft, 

 Brit. Mus.). 



In general appearance and abdominal apical markings 

 resembling Ueana hfiiana, Montr., from which the widely 

 se])arated lower veins of radial and fourth ulnar areas at once 

 distinguish it. 



Genus DOEACIIOSA. 

 DoracJwsa, Di.<t. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (G) x. p. 63 (1892). 

 Type, 1). exiAicata^ Dist. 



Ueana, gen. nov. 



Head (including eyes) about as wide as base of mesonotuni, 

 the front subproininent, in breadth about equal to the length 

 of lateral margins of vertex, space between eyes very much 

 narrower than anterior margin of pronotum, lateral margins 

 of front and vertex continuous ; pronotum about as long as 

 head, its lateral posterior angles ampliate ; length of meso- 

 notuni (including cruciform elevation) less than breadth of 

 head (including eyes) ; abdomen about as long as space 

 between apex of head and base of cruciform elevation ; 

 tympana entirely exposed; opercula in male small, trans- 

 verse ; metasternum shortly posteriorly produced in the male 

 between the opercula ; anterior femora strongly spined 

 beneath; tegmina and wings hyaline; tegmina witii eight 

 apical areas and the bases of the lower veins of radial and 



