108 ME. P. WALKBE ON HOMOPTERA 



Tawny, slender. Head with prominent borders ; vertex twice as broad 

 as long ; front with one keel, widening from the vertex to the face, 

 where it is rounded on each side, and much broader than long ; face 

 with one keel. Prothorax arched, very short. Mesothorax with three 

 keels. I'Cgs yellowish. Wings lurid ; veins tawny. Fore wings 

 blackish-bordered ; costa for rather more than half the length from 

 the base not bordered ; veins minutely tuberculate ; two lines of 

 transverse veins, the second irregular. Length of the body 1 ^ line, 

 ot the wirigs 4^ lines. 



Hab. New Guinea. 



74. Brixia varia. Mas et Fcem. Fusca, gracilis, capite pectore pe- 

 dihusque pallide flavis, capite subcompresso marginibus carinatis, 

 vertice luteo transverso, fronte facieque unicarinatis, mesothorace 

 carinis tribus flavcsceutibus, alis cinereis nigro vcnosis ; alis anticis 

 guttis quatuor nigricantibus, linea 3" e venis transversis nigricante 

 nebulosa, spatio exteriore fusco-nebuloso. 



Male and Female. Brown, slender. Head, pectus, and legs pale yellow. 

 Head slightly compressed, with prominent borders ; vertex luteous, 

 twice as broad as long j front with one keel, widening from the 

 vertex to the front, where it is a little broader than long ; face with 

 one keel. Prothorax arched, very short. Mesothorax with three 

 yellowish keels. Wings cinereous ; veins black. Fore wings shaded 

 with brown beyond the third line of transverse veins, which is irregular 

 and clouded with blackish j three blackish dots on the disk before the 

 middle, and one near the hind border beyond the middle ; stigma 

 blackish, elongated. Length of the body 1| line, of the wings 

 4 lines. 



Hab. Sula. 



75. Brixia variegata. Foem. Fusca, gracilis, capite subcorajn-esso 

 lateribus flavescentibus carinatis, vertice transverso, fronte facieque 

 carina flavescente, mesothorace carinis tribus flavescentibus, pectore 

 abdomineque fulvis, pedibus flavescentibus, alis ])allide cinereis ; alis 

 auticis basi striga costali obliqua fasciisque duabus fuscis, puncto 

 costali albido. 



Female. Brown, slender. Head slightly compressed, with prominent 

 yellowish borders j vertex twice as broad as long ; front with a 

 yellowish keel, increasing in breadth from the vertex to near the face, 

 where it is rounded on each side, and is somewhat broader than long ; 

 face with a yellowish keel. Prothorax arched, very sliort. Meso- 

 thorax with three yellowish keels. Pectus and abdomen tawny. Legs 

 yellowish, Wings pale cinereous. Fore wings brown at the base, 

 with an oblique brown costal streak near the base, and with two 

 brown bands, first band much excavated, very irregular, second 

 irregular, pale brown pear the exterior border, to which it extends ; 



