y\v. \V. L. Distant o/i Hoinoptcia. 2ii 



purplish brown, with some piceous spots, of which tho lar2;cst 

 are one at ciul of opnf|ne coloration and two het'oro aj)ical 

 niar<;in ; winjis hyaliiio, the venation fuscous brown, extreme 

 base ocliraceons ; iuad broadly extending? beyond eyes, the 

 vertex excavate, with the margins ridj^ed ; pronotum with a 

 central ridge, the margins carinate; mesonotum centrally 

 tricarinate, the lateral carinations posteriorly curved inward ; 

 face centrally tricarinate; rostrum almost reaching abdominal 

 apex ; posterior tibia? with six spines. 



Long., excl. tegm., 13 mm. ; exp. togm. 34 mm. 



Jldh. Queensland (Gilbert Turner^ Brit. Mus.). 



Genus Myrilla. 

 Myrilla, Dist. Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. 1888, p. 487. 

 Type, M. ohscura, Dist, 



Myrilla papuan a, sp. n. 



Head, thorax, body beneatli, and legs testaceous, mottled 

 witii black ; abdomen above with the basal half testaceous, 

 the apical half ] ale ochracoous ; tegmitia with the basal two 

 thirds testaceous, mottled with black, the apical area hyaline, 

 the venation fuscous and with prominent fuscous suffusions ; 

 wings piceous, the basal half darkest where the venation is 

 more or less carmine-red ; vertex of head much depressed 

 within the prominent marginal ridges, with four longitudinal 

 black fascia? (two central and one near each lateral margin), 

 front of head, and marginal ridges of vertex and pronotum 

 ochraceous ; face with three longitudinal carinse, the central 

 one straight and percurrent, the other two not reaching the 

 posterior margin ; rostrum reaching apex of abdomen ; legs 

 annulated with piceous ; abdomen beneath with the segmental 

 margins piceous ; tegmina four times longer than broad. 



Long., excl. tegm., 17 mm. ; exp. tegm. 52 mm. 



Hah. New Guinea; Ekeikei {Pratt, Brit. Mus.). 



Allied to M. ohscura, Dist., from which it is distinguished 

 by the colour of the wings, the longer rostrum, &c. 



Myrilla semihyalina, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, body beneath, and legs pale brownish 

 ochraceous ; a spot at both base of front and vertex of head 

 and two central spots on anterior margins of pro- and meso- 

 nota black ; abdomen above black, the segmental margins 

 green or ochraceous ; a central annulation and apices to 

 anterior and intermediate tibife, and the same tarsi, black ; 



