i\rr. W. I/. Distant on Ilomoptera. 483 



altogether absent ; anterior femora spined beneatli ; rostrum 

 just passing the intermediate coxa; opercula in male short, 

 transverse, not passing base of abdomen ; tegmina semi- 

 opaque, with ten apical areas, the basal cell longer than 

 broad. 



Type, P. samara, Dist. 



Parvittya samara, sp. n. 



Head and pronotum black, greyishly pilose ; mesonotum 

 ochraceous, with two central anterior obconical spots, a broad 

 sublateral fascia on each side, and two small rounded spots in 

 front of the basal cruciform elevation, black; cruciform 

 elevation, abdomen above and beneath, opercula, and lateral 

 margins and apical half of face, ochraceous ; head beneath, 

 sternum, and legs black, ochraceously pilose; abdomen 

 beneath with small lateral segmental piceous spots; tegmina 

 fu?cou? brown, venation piceous, its basal area witli longi- 

 tudinal pale fuscous streaks ; wings shining pale fuscous. 



Long., excl. tegm., ^ 24 mm.; exp. tegm. 63 mm. 



IJab. Philippines : Samar (Brit. Mus.). 



Genus Uuechts. 

 Iluechys, Amy. & Serv. Hist. Hem. p. 464 (1843). 

 Type, H. sanguinea, De Geer {Cicada). 



Genus SCIEROPTERA. 



Scieropiera, Stal, Hem. Afr. iv. p. 4 (1866) ; Berl. ent. Zeit. x. p 169 

 (1866). 



Type, S. splendidula , Fabr. {Tettigonia). 



Division Carinetaria. 



In this division the pronotum is distinctly narrowed ante- 

 riorly, never longer than the mesonotum, sometimes much 

 shorter ; the lateral pronotal margins are oblique, not am- 

 pliate; the body is more or less robust, narrowed towards 

 head and apex of abdomen, which is sometimes very short ; 

 tegmina and wings hyaline, the first in a few cases semi- 

 opaque, but usually clear, and frequently unspotted. 



The Carinetaria are found in both hemispheres. 



