Mr. W. L. Distant on Homoptera. 215 



KuMANCiA, gen. nov. 



Head with the front narrow, about as long as broad, includ- 

 ing eyes narrower than the base of mesonotum ; pronotum 

 narrowed anteriorly ; mesonotum (including cruciform eleva- 

 tion) slightly shorter than head and pronotum together; 

 abdomen in male longer than the space between apex of head 

 and base of cruciform elevation ; tympana entirely exposed ; 

 opercula completely covering the sonorous cavities and pro- 

 jecting beyond the lateral margins of the abdomen as seen 

 from above ; rostrum reaching the intermediate coxte; tegmina 

 and wings hyaline ; tegmina with eight apical areas, seventh 

 and eighth about equally long, basal cell about twice as long 

 as broad ; wings with six apical areas. 



Type, K. sandaracata, Dist. [Bceturia). 



CONIBOSA, gen. nov. 



Head as long as breadth between eyes^ front triangularly 

 produced, as long as broad at base, its lateral margins and 

 those of vertex discontinuous, vertex longer than front, ocelli 

 well separated from basal margin and nearer to each other 

 than to eyes ; pronotum a little longer than head, its lateral 

 margins straight, its posterior angles very little ampliated ; 

 mesonotum (including cruciform elevation) scarcely longer 

 than pronotum ; abdomen somewhat strongly dilated in male, 

 centrally arched and carinate, longer than space between 

 apex of head and base of cruciform elevation ; tympana 

 entirely exposed ; opercula in male type mutilated ; rostrum 

 reaching the intermediate coxae; lower anal appendage to 

 male long, projecting beyond apex of abdomen ; anterior 

 femora armed with three spines beneath ; tegmina and wings 

 hyaline ; tegmina with eight, wings with five apical areas ; 

 basal cell to tegmina not twice as long as broad. 



Type, C. occidentris, Walk. {Gephaloxys). 



Genus Chlorocysta. 



Cystosoma, subgen. Chhrocysta, Westw. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist (2) 

 vii. p. 208 (1851). 



Type, C. vitripennis, Westw. {Cystosoma [Chlorocysta]). 



Mardalana, gen. nov. 



Chhrocysta, God. & Frogg. (part.), Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. "Wales, 1904, 

 p. 658. 



Allied to Chlorocysta, Westw., but tegmina with eleven, 

 and wings with five apical areas ; front of head more pro- 

 duced and less continuous with lateral margins of vertex ; 



