^Ir. W. L. Distant on Ilomoptcra. 337 



Varcia sordida possesses a narrower costal membrane tha:i 

 that of any other species of the genus witli which I atn 

 acquuinted. 



Genus GiETULiA. 

 Gatulia, Stll, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1864, p. 64. 



'J'ypc, Q . phnipennis, Walk. 



Kirkaidy (Kcp. Exp. 8tat. Haw. Plant. Assoc, iii. p. 9X, 

 1907) writes: — "Distant states that the head is considerably 

 narrower than the pronotum. This is incorrect as a i:fcneric 

 ciiaractir, for in (/. chrysopoidea the eyes project very sliglitly 

 beyond the pronotum ; Distant's figure also scarcely bears out 

 his diagnosis; moreover, the clypeus is not carinate, as, 

 indeed, Stal also states." This pronouncemeut of Kirkaidy 

 is unfortunately inaccurate and misleading. 



1. That the head considerably narrower than the pro- 

 notum " is incorrect as a generic character" is an amazing 

 remark when the accurate figure of the Neotro|)ical type 

 {G. j'leuipennis, \Yn\k.,= pud ibunda, Stal) given Ijy Fowler 

 (Biol. Centr.-Am., Kliynch.-Honi. i. t. viii. fig. 13) is avail- 

 able for consultation by one who is evidently unacquainted 

 with the species. The Australian species Ricania chryso- 

 poi'desj Walk., which Kirkaidy refers to as typical of Grelulia, 

 lias been so placed by none but himself; Melichar, in his 

 Monograph (not having seen the speiies), merely remarks 

 " Schtint zur Gattung Gatulia zu geliciren." 



2. vStal did not state that " the clypeus is not carinate," 

 but " clypeus lateribus hand carinatis." The clypeus in the 

 type is strongly centrally carinate, and laterally, in my 

 opinion, also finely carinate j in the chrysopoides, Walk., it is 

 distinctly so. 



NuRUNDERiA, gen. nov. 



Allied to Gcvtulia, but differing by the head (including 

 eyes) being as wide as the pronotum ; tace narrow elongate, 

 the margins parallel, not widened beyond middle, and then 

 obliquely narrowed to clypeus, which is centrally strongly 

 longitudinally carinate and laterally finely carinate. 



Type, A', c/iryaopoidis, Walk. 



Nurunderi'a chrysopoides. 



Ricania chnjxopoide^, "Walk, 

 Gatulia c/uj/sojwides, Kirk, 

 p. [)6 {VM7). 



Ilah. Sydney (type, Pascoe Coll. in I'.iit. Mus.) 



Ricania chryxopoiJes, Walk. Joum. Ent. i. p. 312 (186:?). 

 Oeetitlia c/iJ!/goj)oid(s, Kiik. Rep. Exp. Stat. Haw. I'lunt. Assoc, iii. 

 p. 'Jb (liK>7> 



