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Mr. AV. L. Distant on IIomo))tera. 



Arunta, gen. nov. 



Vertex of head longly produced in front of eye?, broad, 

 laterally sinuate, aj)ically widened and centrally notched on 

 anterior niargin ; antennaj inserted at some distance beneath 

 eyes, second joint long and broad ; head laterally broad and 

 spatulate, very much compressed, face very long, attenuated 

 centrally, mari^inally strongly ridged ; clypeus short, globose ; 

 pronotum moderately triangularly anteiiorly produced, its 

 posterior margin equally angularly sinuate ; niesonotum 

 tricarinate, apical joint of rostrum very short; legs slender; 

 tegmina elongate, gradually broadening to apex, which is trun- 

 cate, discoidal areas four, lowermost longest, second shortest 

 and triangular ; wings a little shorter than tegmina, but 

 considerably broader, two subapical transverse veins, third 

 apical area short, triangular. 



Type, A. rubrovenosa, Dist. 



AlHed to Fhaiitasmatoceray Kirk., from which it differs by 

 the different shape and structure of the head, the longer 

 anteniife, apically truncate tegmina, with short and less 

 numerous apiccd areas. In his short generic indication 

 Kirkal'ly does not refer to the wings. 



jXrunta ruhrovenosa, sp. n. 

 Head creamy wdiite, margins of iace as far as eyes black ; 



Antnta ruhrovenosa, Dist. 



face before eyes pale cchraceous : clypeus and inner margin 

 of eyes black ; eyes and secjnd joint of antcnnte luscous 



