20 ]\Ir. W. L. Distant on Ilomoptera. 



Eurystheus pallescens. 



Allied to U. dementi, but much smaller ; cephalic proces3 

 from in front of eyes slightly longer than abdomen ; tegmina 

 unspotted ; other characters as in E. dementi. 



Long., excl. tegm., 14 mm.; exp. tegm. 29 mm. 



Hub. W. Australia; Nicol Bay District {Dr. dement, 

 Brit. Mus.). 



Genus Cathedra. 



Cathedra, Kirk, Entomologist, xxxvi. p. 179 (1903). 

 2'ristiopsis, Schmidt, Stett. ent. Zeit. Ixvi. p, 332 (1905). 



Type, C. serrata, Fabr. {Fulgora). 



Genus Saiva. 

 Saiva, Dist. Fairn. B. I., Rhvnch. iii. p, 192 (1906). 

 Type, S. gemmata, Westw. 



Saiva cultellata. 



Hotinus culteUatus, Walk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. i. p. 143 (1857). 

 Fulgora bicolur, Schmidt, Stett. ent. Zeit. Ixvi. p. 355 (190oj. 



Saiva cardinalis. 



Fulgora cardinalia, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xir. p. 131 (1874). 

 Fulgora cardinalis, Schmidt, Stett. ent. Zeit. Ixvi. p. 356 (1905). 



By a strange coincidence Herr Schmidt has not only 

 redescribed Butler^s species, but has chosen the same specitic 

 name. 



Samsama, gen. nov. 



Head longer than broad, vertex produced in front of eyes 

 and anteriorly developed in a long slender tilamentous 

 appendage nearly as long as the mesonotum and abdomen 

 together, its apex slightly widened and broadly sulcate ; face 

 not longer than clypeus, medially bicarinate, laterally widened 

 or ampliated towards clypeus ; rostrum slightly passing the 

 posterior coxje; pronotum a little shorter than mesonotum, 

 anteriorly subangularly produced, centrally finely carinate ; 

 mesonotum centrally finely tricarinate ; abdomen broad, 

 moderately depressed ; posterior tibia (in type) with seven 

 spines ; tegmina long, narrow, four times longer than broad, 

 apex subacutely rounded, costal membrane broad, apical third 

 reticulately veined, claval area broad an.l strongly obtusely 



