^^I•. W . \j. DLstaiit 0/1 Ilomoptcra. 291 



b.isal claval area, ami a subapical marginal fascia broadly 

 bifurcating on interior niarL^in, pale jxirplish brown, t!iis 

 fascia is broken near upp-.-r apical angle ; wings creamy 

 white, hyaline. 



Long., excl. tegm., (ji mm.; exp. tegm. 10-20 mm. 



HcA. Queensland (F.'P. Dodd, JJrit. Mus.). 



BOOKETA, gen. nov. 

 Boonetfi, MS , Brit. Mas. 



Head mnch shorter than pronotnni, vertex shorter tlian 

 broad, the margins ridged, centrally carinate, the anterior 

 angles appearing prominent from above ; face long, con- 

 vex ly deflected, rather more than twice as long as clypeus, 

 nearly equally broad throughouf, the lateral margins straif^ht, 

 both face and clyj)eus strongly centrally and marginally 

 carinate; rostrum not passing the posterior coxjb, the apical 

 joint elongate ; posterior tibiae unarmed ; pronotum about as 

 long as vertex, centrally tricarinate, the lateral carinations 

 curved and joining the central one at anterior margin ; meso- 

 notum about as long as pronotum and vertex together, tri- 

 carinate, the lateral carinations sinuate; tegmina short and 

 broad, jipical margin obliquely truncate, inner mar'^in 

 obliquely ampliate from end ot clavus, costal area broad, 

 veins longitudinal, a transverse subapical line formed by 

 transverse veins, and three transverse veins on disk; wino^.s 

 a little narrower than tegmina. 



Type, ]i. ferrnginea, Walk. 



Sooneta ferruginea. 



Cixius fernujineus, Walk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. x. p. 104 (1867). 

 Cixius cali(jinosu«, Walk. he. cit. p. JOo. 



llab. New Guinea, Mysol. 



Boonela luridd. 



Cixim luridit^, Walk. Jmirn. Linn. ?'0c., Zool. x. p. 104 C1S07). 

 I lab. Mysol. 



OuwEA, gen. nov. 



Head much narrower than pronotum, vertex short verv 

 much broader than long, its anterior lateral angles prominent"; 

 face about twice as long as clypeus, somewhat flat, with the 

 iaieral margins strongly laminately reflexed, narrowing 

 towards clypeus, its posterior margin sinuated for the recep- 

 tion of the clypeus, centrally longitudinally carinate ; clypeus 



