HEMIPTERA— CIC ADELLIDAE ( JASSID AE) . 



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apex and two faint whitish areas on inner margin, one at tip of clavus and the 

 other half-way on appendix and invading inner apical cell. Wing veins dusky, 

 beneath piceous ; margins of ventral segment, basal half of plates and the legs 

 pale. 



Length : male, 3 mm. 



One male (holotype) Apia, Upolu, l.x.1925, Buxton and Hopkins. 

 This species seems well marked by the rounded border of vertex and the 

 dense piceous colour. 



13. Xestocephalus reflexus, n. sp. 



Head narrower than pronotum, broadly subangulate. Vertex half longer 

 at middle than at eye, ocelli close to anterior margin ; front broad, narrowed 

 rather abruptly to clypeus ; cheek convex ; pronotum half longer than vertex ; 

 elytral veins mostly obscure. Female, last ventral segment long, twice as long 

 as preceding, truncate behind, faintly notched at middle, pygofer nearly as long 

 as ovipositor, ciliate on apical half. 



Pale brown, the scutellum and elytra infuscate or piceous ; two strongly 

 reflexed pale spots on costa. Beneath pale testaceous with some piceous 

 suffusion. 



Length, 3-5 mm. 



One specimen, female (holotype), Upolu, Malololelei, 24.ii.1924, Buxton and 

 Hopkins. 



This might seem possibly to be the female of ficeatus, but aside from the . 

 difference in locality there is a distinct difference in the colour pattern and it 

 seems wiser to consider them distinct. If additional material or the finding of 

 the sexes together proves an identity one may be placed in synonomy without 

 serious consequences, a result that would seem preferable to confusing two 

 species under one name. 



Genus Hecaloidella, new genus. 



AlUed to Hecalus and Parabolocratus but with different venation. Body 

 depressed, head thin, margin of vertex acutely angular, almost foliaceous, 

 rounded in front. Elytral venation distinct, two claval veins and a cross-vein 

 from outer claval to suture. Three anteapical, four apical cells, the outer one 

 very broad and its base resting on the nodal outer anteapical. Genotype 

 H. nitida, n. sp. 



