1895.] HEMIPTBEA-HOMOPTERAOFTHEISLANDOFST.TINCENT. 67 



VrscEifTiA, gen. nov. 



Form of CLvius, Latr., and with clear wing-covers and wings. 

 Head but a very little longer than the eyes ; the vertex very narrow, 

 with the carinate borders only a little higher than the eyes, bound- 

 ing a deeply sunken surface, and converging to an angle in front ; 

 the front rapidly expanding in a curve to the middle, with the 

 sides tapering to an acute point at apex of epistoma, the summit 

 of the middle carina a little expanded, the lateral margins foliate- 

 carinate. Pronotum very narrow in the middle, deeply triangularly 

 emarginate like the base of the head and entering so deeply as to 

 be almost concealed by the occiput and eyes ; the marginal edge 

 fitting against the eyes carinated. Dorsal shield of mesonotum 

 about twice as long as wide, with straight carinate sides and trian- 

 gular ends, the middle incompletely carinate and with a short ridge 

 each side ; the scutellum short, acute, set upon a broader semi- 

 circular flap which is protracted each side anteriorly out to the 

 base of the wings. Wing-covers broad, of nearly equal width 

 throughout, transparent, with the veins granulated as in Cixius ; 

 the costal areole long and wide, of nearly equal width throughout, 

 followed by a narrow and very acute nodal areole, six anteapical 

 areoles, of which the upper and lower are longer than the others 

 and are bounded by a fork of the veins on the middle of the 

 ■ corium ; the membrane terminating in a nearly regidar curve, the 

 apical series of areoles almost symmetrrcal, the four following the 

 nodus placed obUquely. Wings with the areole next to the first 

 apical one large, bounded at base by a transverse vein, separated 

 at tip by a short triangular areole, the four following areoles tri- 

 angular "at base. Posterior tibite with two stout spurs before 

 the middle and another at tip, besides the cro\ra of small teeth. 

 Abdomen broad, depressed, carinately elevated on the tergum. 



VufCEIfTIA INTEREUPTA, sp. nOV. 



Chestnut-brown, paler beneath, fulvous anteriorly. Pront 

 tinged with dull fulvous; the carinate lines, sides, upper part of 

 cheeks, and the rostrum pale yellowish. Eyes brownish black, 

 large, suborbicular, bordered with pale yellow, deeply emarginated 

 below. Pronotum mostly pale yellow, darker on the sides, but 

 with all the margins yellowish. Mesonotum fulvous on the disk, 

 bordered with yellowish ; the discal carinate lines partly yellowish. 

 Mesosternum, including the flat coxse, with a broad brown band 

 which corresponds with the brown area of the epistoma ; pleural 

 line marked by series of angular, scale-like, pale spots. Scutellum 

 pale at tip aiid on the sides. Legs clouded with smoke-brown, 

 pale on the knees, at the ends of the tibiae, and on the ends of the 

 tarsal joints. Wing-covers with two coalescing brown spots at 

 base, two similar ones on the middle, also a diagonal nodal spot ; 

 the transverse veins, ends of the apical veins, costa, and two or 

 three streaks on the posterior marginal vein brown, remainder of 

 this vein, base of nodal spot, and veins around it pale yellowish. 



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