318 Mr. "\V. L. Distant on Homoptera. 



as mesonotum; rostrum passing the intermediate coxse ; 

 anterior femora with a long suhapical spine beneath; tarsi 

 two- jointed ; opercula in male transverse, posteriorly rounded, 

 not extending beyond base of abdomen. 



Long., excl. tcgm., (^ 33 mm. ; exp. tegm. 100 mm. 



Ilab. Brazil : Para (Br. II. E. JJurliam, Brit. Mus.). 



Majeoeona, gen. nov. 



Head (including eyes) considerably broader than base of 

 mesonotum ; eyes protuberant, more or less stylate ; length 

 of head above about equal to half its breadth between eyes 

 and about or almost as long as pronotum, which is distinctly 

 shorter than mesonotum ; abdomen about as long as space 

 between apex of head and base of cruciform elevation ; the 

 tympanal orifices exposed interiorly, tlie flaps almost as long 

 as and covering the lateral areas, not prominently concave 

 interiorly ; metasternal plate well developed, centrally longi- 

 tudinally impressed and anteriorly produced on each side ; 

 rostrum reaching the posterior cox?e ; anterior femora strongly 

 spined beneath ; tarsi three-jointed ; opercula in male small, 

 transverse, not extending beyond base of abdomen; tegmina 

 and wings hyaline, the tirst with eight apical areas and the 

 basal cell longer than broad. 



Type, M. aper, "Walk. {Fidicina). 



Majeorona bovilla, sp. n. 



^ . Body above black ; head with the apical margin of 

 front, lateral margins of vertex, and inner margins of eyes 

 angularly continued to near area of ocelli, olivaceous brown ; 

 })ronotum with the anterior margin narrowly and the lateral 

 and posterior margins broadly stramineous (tlie lateral margins 

 outwardly black), and with a more obscure small discal spot 

 of tlie same colour ; mesonotum with the margins of two 

 central obconical spots and the cruciform elevation pale casta- 

 neons; abdomen above with its lateral margins and the poste- 

 rior margins of the segments pale castaneous ; body beneath 

 and legs ochraceous ; central sulcation and lateral margins of 

 face, a fascia between face and eyes, and apices of anterior 

 and intermediate femora, black ; tegmina and wings pale 

 hyaline, the bases of both black, mottled with brownish 

 ochraceous, and divided by pale ochraceous veins; tegmina 

 with the costal membrane and area black, basal cell bhack, 

 with a basal central ochraceous spot, venation black, ochra- 

 ceous at extreme base, transverse veins at bases of second 

 and third apical areas a little infuscatcd; wings with the 



