296 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



EHYNCHOTA MISCELLANEA. 



By G. W. Kirkaldy, F.E.S. j)!^^^ 



^ Fam. Tetigoniid^. 

 ^ Tetigonia ferruginea (Fabr.). — Chosen (Korea), Port Lazareff 

 (T. B. Fletcher, E.N.)- This fine species is very common 

 throughout the Oriental Eegion from China to Tenasserim, 

 and would indeed be included in the palsearctic fauna at Port 

 Lazareff. 



^ Fam. FuLGORiD^. 



\/q ^ "^ Geisha, gen. nov. V^ 



Subf. Poekillopterinae ; the characters are those of Flata, but 

 there are no transverse nervures in the clavus, while the trans- 

 verse nervures on the corium are very irregular, so that there is 

 no sutured-off rpembrane. The latter character will at once 

 separate it hom^ Melicharia, Kirk. 

 ^'^ Tyipe ^Poeciloptei^a distinctissima, Walker, 1858. List. Horn. 

 Suppl. p. 114 (China and Japan). 



" POEKILLOPTERA, LcitV. 



Fowler, who adopts the later spelling t^Poeciloptera," enume- 

 rates in the 'Biologia Centrali-Americana, Homoptera, I.,' p. 50, 

 some of the variations of the name ; but, as one of the references 

 is inaccurate, and others are not the earliest known, a corrected 

 list is here appended : — 



I'-'Poekilloptera, Latreille, 1796, Precis, ex pp. 83-92 ; and 

 1804, Nouv. Diet. Nat. Hist, xxiv., Tabl. meth., ex pp. 163-8. 

 "' 'Poeciloptera, Latreille, 1804, Hist. Nat. Crust. Ins. xii. 315. 



Y ^ Fulgora, subg. Flata*' Latreille, 1807, Gen. Crust. Ins. iii. 

 164-5. 



v" ^ Poecilloptera, 1818, Germar, Mag. Ent. iii. 218 ; 1825, Lap. 

 Serv. Enc. Meth. x. 168. 

 V ° Paeciloptere, Latreille, 1825, Fam. Nat. 427. 



^ ^ Cenestra circulata (Guerin), St. Thomas (Pavenstedt, Mus. 



Bremen). 

 L/' '^ Phromnia Jiaccida (Walker)^/Nias Island (Mus. Bremen). 



"?) Cerynia deplana (Walker) -^ albata, Stal), Sumatra (coll. 

 Kirkaldy, ex coll. Seeldrayers). 

 \/ ^ Pyrops [auctt.] tenehrosus (Fabr.), Belgian Kongo (collns. 

 Seeldrayers and Kirkaldy) ; Hinterland of Togo (Spiess, Mus. 

 Bremen) . 



•-'.: Fowler incorrectly quotes this reference as " PoeJcilloptera." That 

 name was appended in brackets as a synonym of Flata, Fabr., subg. of 

 Fulgora, Linn. 



