288 Mr. W. L. Distant <)/j Ilomoptera. 



Magia, gen. nov. 



Vntox wide, a little lon<;er tlian broad, flat, lateral mar- 

 gins straight, anterior and lateral margins ridged, centrally 

 longitudinally carinate ; face with the lateral margins a little 

 concave, prominently angularly ampliate on each side of 

 posterior margin, tricarinate, the lateral carinations curved 

 and anteiioily joining the central carination, clyj)eus centrally 

 ridged ; pronotum a little shorter than vertex, not produced 

 beyond base of head, tricarinate ; mesonotum about as long 

 as pronotum and vertex together, tricarinate, the lateral 

 carinations posteriorly outwardly directed ; abdomen equal in 

 length to space between anterior margin of vertex and 

 posterior angle of me.sonotum ; posterior tibiae with two 

 spines : tegmina somewhat long and narrow, anterior claval 

 arra with three transverse veins, apical area with numerous 

 transverse veins, some of which form a continuous apical 

 submarginal series; wings narrow, two series ot transverse 

 veins beyond middle. 



Type, M. suboctllata, Dist. 



Mayia sulocellata, sp. n. 



Body and legs pale ochraceous ; two spots at anterior 

 margin of face, two small spots at base of anterior coxae, a 

 spot on each lateral margin of mesosternum, lateral and 

 posterior margins, lateral carinae, two spots between them, 

 and two very small spots near each lateral angle of pronotum, 

 lateral margins, carina?, two spots near each side of anterior 

 margin, and two very small spots near base of mesonotum, 

 posterior margins and angles of abdominal segments above, 

 and the tarsal claws, black; carinations to face testaceous ; 

 tegmina subhyaline, very slightly pale fuliginous, the 

 venation fuscous, stigma ochraceous, a lower subapical black 

 spot with a white pupil at its upper margin ; wings sub- 

 hyaline, the venation fuscous. 



Long., excl. tegm., 8 mm.; exp. tegm. 21 mm. 



Hal. Queensland, Kuranda (/'. P. Dodd^ Brit. Mus.). 



Genus Pahicana. 

 Parieana, Walk. Joum. Linn. Soc, Zool. i, p. 168 (1857). 

 Type, P. dilalipenniSf Walk. 



Parieana curvifera. 

 rurvifera, Walk. MS. 

 Vertex, mesonotum, abdomen above, body beneath and 



