148 W. L. Distant : Rhynchota ' Mai ay ana. [VOL. II, 



Genus Norsiana, nom. nov. 



Norsia, Walk., Journ. lyinn. vSoc. lyond. Zool., x, p. 326(1869), 



nom. pYcBOcc. 

 T^^pe iV. fiavidorsum, Walk. 



" Body slender. Head as broad as the thorax ; vertex arched, 

 nearly twice as broad as long ; front flat, nearly horizontal, beneath 

 the vertex. Seta of the antennae rather shorter than the body. 

 Scutum much arched " (Walker). Vertex with a distinct central 

 impressed line, ocelli on anterior margin close to eyes ; face 

 narrowing to cl3^peus ; pronotum with the lateral margins a little 

 angulated, anteriorly convexly arched between the eyes, posteriorl}'^ 

 truncate ; scutellum flattened, transverse, a little deflected to the 

 transverse impression before apical area ; legs slender, posterior 

 tibiae longly spinose ; tegmina with four apical and two narrow 

 anteapical cells. 



Norsiana fiavidorsum (pi. vii, figs. 12, 12a). 



Norsia fiavidorsum, Walk., Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool., x, 



p. 326 (1869); dilecta, Walk., MS. 

 Hab.— Mysol (Wallace ; Brit. Mus.) ; N. Guinea. 



A specimen labelled dilecta, Walk., from New Guinea is in the 

 British Museum, but I have been unable to trace its description. 



The species described by Walker as Norsia fulvescens is not a 

 Jassid at all. 



Genus Jassus. 



Jassus^ Fabr., vSyst. Rhyng., p. 85 (1803). 

 C(T/?^za, Germ., Mag. Ent., iv, p. 75 (1821). 

 Type /. ncrvosus, Fabr. 



Jassus glabra. 



Tcttigonia glabra^ Walk., Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool., i, p. 168 



(1857)- ^ 

 Hab. — Borneo. 



Jassus inclinans. 



Tcttigonia inclinans^ Walk., Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool,, i, 



p. 169 (1857). 

 Ccelidia cupraria. Walk., loc. cit., p. 173. 

 Ccelidia marginifrons, Walk., loc. cit., x, p. 310 (1869). 

 Hab. — Borneo ; Mysol. 



Jassus albisigna. 



Ccelidia albisigna, Walk., Journ. Linn. Soc. I^ond. Zool., i, p. 17^ 



(1857)- 

 Hab. — Borneo. 



Jassiis pardalis. 



Ccelidia pardalis, Walk., Journ. Linn. vSoc. Lond. Zool., i, p. 173 



(1857). 

 Hab. — Borneo. 



