336 Mr. W. L. Distant on Homoptera, 



Genus Varcia. 

 Varcia, StSl, Ofv. Vet.-.lk. Forli. 1870, p. 7G9. 



Type, V. nigrovittata, Stal. 



Varcia plena* 



Nogodina plena, Walk. Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zool. x. p. 168 

 (1868J ; Melich. Mou. Ricaniid. p. 308 (1898). 



Hah. Key Island. 



Varcia Jlavicostalis. 



Ricania flavkostalis, Kirby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1888, p. 554. 

 Varcia Jlavicostalis, Melich. Men. Ricaniid. p. 319 (1898) ; Kirby, Mon. 

 Christmas Isld. p. 133, pi. xv. fig. 7 (1900). 



Var. affinis, Kirby. 



Ricania affinis, Kirby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1888, p. 554. 

 Nogodina affinis, Melich. Mon. Ricaniid. p. 309 (1898) ; Kirb}', Mon. 

 Christmas Isld. p. 134 (nee fig.) (1900). 



Kirby, in the ' Monograph of Christmas Island,' lias 

 followed Melichar in placing R. flavicostdlis and R. affinis 

 in different genera. They are, however, but vars. of one 

 species. The neuration in Kirby's two figures has been 

 drawn too diverse. 



Varcia venosa. 

 Nogodina venosa, Walk. Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zool. x. p. 169 (1868). 



Ilah. Flores. 



Walker refers to the differential characters between this 

 species and V. plena, Walk., as being found in the markings 

 of the face and the size of the tegminal stigma. In V. venosa 

 the costal membrane is narrower than in V. plena. 



Varcia sordida^ sp. n. 

 sordida, Walk., MS. 



In general appearance and markings very closely resembling 

 V. hemerohii, Walk., but smaller in size and with the costal 

 membrane very much narrower and containing ten to twelve 

 transverse veins ; the face has four distinct black spots on 

 anterior margin. Other characters generally as in V. Iiemei-obii. 



Long., excl. tegm., 9 mm. ; exp. tegm. 24 mm. 



Hab. Aru, Dorey (Brit. Mus.). Duke of York Island 

 (Coll. Dist.). 



