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liOiig., oxcl. tegin., ;> mm,; cxp. tcgm. l.'} mm. 

 J/uh. Jamaica ; Moiica-ue ((Jiuise of ' Valhalla/ M J 

 JSicull, Brit. Mas.). 



Mijsidia glaiica, sp. n. 



Ilea'I and pronotum veiy pale brownish ochraccou.'? ; 

 sternum with sanguineous markings ; body beneath and k^rs 

 very jiale brownish, somewhat greyish ly toinentose ; abdomen 

 above j)ale bluish ; tegmina and wings pale bluish, in some 

 lights with a bronzy tint ; niesonotuni distinctly tricarinate ; 

 iace and clypeus centrally sanguineous, the lateral niar<'-ina 

 ridged. 



Long., excl. tegm., 3 mm. ; cxp. tegm. 15 mm. 



Ilah. Lower Amazons; Parana de Buyassu (E.E. Austen, 

 Brit. Mus.). 



Genus Phenice. 

 Phenice, Westw. Traus. Linn. Soc. xix. p. 10 (1842). 

 Type, P.fritiUaris, Boh. 



Phenice australis, sp. n. 



Head and pronotum dark chocolate-brown, the carinations 

 greyish white; metanotuni and scutellum greyish white; 

 abdomen above black, ■with a central longitudinal greyish- 

 white ridge ; head and sternum beneath daik chocolate-brown ; 

 abdonun beneath black; legs stramineous; tegmina black, 

 a large claval spot extending upward, but not reaching radial 

 vein, a large irregular spot beyond middle extending from 

 radial vein to inner margin, a series of spots to costal area, 

 becoming duplicated near apex, and apical marginal spots 

 greyish white, in the large pale spot beyojid middle, but not 

 in tiie claval spot, the veins are black ; wings piceous brown, 

 posterior margin broadly greyish white divided by piceous 

 veins. 



Long., excl. tegin., 3 mm. ; exp. tegm. 17 mm. 



Hob. Queensland (/''. P. Dodd, Brit. Mus.). 



Allied to the Liuian species P. mcesta^ Westw. 



Akfaka, gen. nov. 



Head (including eyes) very much narrower than pronotum ; 

 vertex narrow, triangular, widened posteriorly, distinctly 

 ])ioduccd in front of eyes, centrally longitudinally deflected; 

 Jace laterally compressed, convex, centrally very narrow, 

 linear, a little widened anteriorly, centrally longitudinally 



