484 j\Ir. W. L. Distant on flomoptera. 



Si/ n ops is of Genera. 



A. Head (including eyes) more or le.«s narrower than base 

 of mesonotuiu ; front about as long or a little lonsjer 

 tlian vertex. 

 a. Pronotinu considerably shorter thiin mesonotum. 

 b. Greatest width of tegmina about one third their 

 length. 

 c. Abdomen about as long as space between apex 



of head and base of cruciform elevation .... Carineta. 

 R. Head (including eyes) a little narrower than base of 

 mesonotum ; front about as long as vertex. 

 aa. Pronctuni not mucli more than half the length of 

 mesonotum, including basal cruciform elevation. 

 lb. Greatest width of tegmina less than one third of 

 their length. 

 cc. Abdomen very short, shorter than pronotum 

 and mesonotum together, including ba.sal 

 cruciform elevation Karenia *. 



C. Head (including eyes) as wide as base of mesonotum ; 



vertex a little longer than front. 

 aaa. Pronotum about as long as me«onotum. 



bhh. Greatest width of tegmina little more than half 



their length Herrera. 



D. Head (including eyes) about half the width of base 



of mesonotum ; vertex a little longer than front. 

 aaaa. Pronotum about as long as mesonotum, in- 

 cluding cruciform elevation. 

 bbbb. Greatest width of tegmina a little more than 



one third their length Tympmiistria. 



Genus Carineta. 



Carineta, Amy. & Serv. Hist. H6ui. p. 482 (1843). 

 Type, C. formosa^ Germ. [Gicidji). 



Carineta holiviana, sp. n. 



Borly above and beneath fuscous brown, somewhat thickly 

 greyisbly pilose ; face, a spot between face and eyes, and the 

 iemora jiale castaneous. ; anterior femora beneath, tibige, and 

 tarsi dark castaneous ; coxte, trochanters, extreme apices of 

 femora, and bases of tibise pale ochraceous ; pronotum with a 

 small spot at centre of inner edge of posterior margin and 

 two short, discal, diverging fasciae, piceous ; mesonotum with 

 two central, piceously margined, obconical spots, a transverse 

 spot iu front of crucitbrm elevation, with a short curved spot 

 on each side, piceous ; tegmina and wings hyaline, with a 



* Another character of this genus is found in tiie venation of the 

 t(>gniina, the bases of the radial area and the lower ulnar area being 

 contiguous at lower apical angle of basal cell. 



