THE GENUS P ARAD A HORVATH (HEMIPTERA: 
TINGIDAE) 1 
By Carl J. Drake 
Iowa State College, Ames 
Horvath (Ark. Zool., 17A(24) :2-3, 1925) erected Parada 
as a subgenus of the genus Cysteochila Stal for the recep- 
tion of Cysteochila {Parada) taeniophora. Seventeen years 
later, Drake (Iowa St. Coll. J. Sci., 17(1) :3-4, 1942) raised 
Parada to the generic level and described two new species 
and a new variety from Australia. The genus is not known 
to occur elsewhere. 
The present paper describes three new species and one 
new variety of the genus Parada from Australia. I am 
indebted to Dr. Philip Darlington of the Museum of Com- 
parative Zoology, Harvard University, for kindly loaning 
me the tingids, which he collected in Australia. The dis- 
position of the types is given beneath the descriptions of 
the new species. 
Genus Parada Horvath, 1925 
Type, Cysteochila {Parada) taeniophora Horvath, 1925 
Parada darlingtoni, new sp. 
Head brown, with five testaceous spines; median spine 
short and blunt, the hind pair shorter in type than allotype, 
appressed. Eyes moderately large, black. Antennae long, 
rather slender, pale testaceous, the terminal segment almost 
totally black-fuscous; segment I short, stout, thicker and 
nearly twice as long as n ; ill very long, slenderest, smooth, 
scarcely more than four times as long as IV. Bucculae very 
wide, meeting in front, testaceous, areolate. Rostrum tes- 
taceous, extending to middle of metasternum ; rostral 
laminae testaceous, areolate, subparallel, open behind. 
Pronotum strongly convex, closely coarsely deeply pitted, 
black with hood, paranota, carinae and posterior projec- 
tion testaceous, the posterior part of pronotum distinctly 
1 Published with a grant from the Museum of Comparative Zoology 
at Harvard College. 
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