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weakly curved dorsad. Subgenital plate very short, truncate, sur- 

 face concave mesad. 



General coloration clay color. Mandibles blackish brown, with 

 a suffusion of the same above their bases. Vertex, antennal scrobes 

 and proximal joints of antennae marked with blackish brown, the 

 antennae showing very short annuli of this color and with inter- 

 sections of joints slightly darkened. Occiput with a postocular 

 sulcus blackish brown on each side. Pronotum with a blackish 

 brown suffusion latero-proximad on each side and a large suffusion 

 of the same occupying all of the area of the lateral lobes above the 

 humeral sinus and invading the disk, with internal margins parallel. 

 Disk of pronotum latero-mesad between these markings with flecks 

 of blackish brown and with a pair of minute flecks of the same mesad 

 at the base of the produced caudal portion. Tegmina with minute 

 intervals between veins and veinlets blackish brown. Abdomen 

 with a median row of clay colored diamond-shaped spots narrowly 

 delimited in blackish brown, mesad on each side is also a suffused, 

 longitudinal blackish brown band. Limbs with spines dark brown, 

 femora with a pre-genicular annulus of dark brown but with 

 apices themselves very pale, these markings strongest on caudal 

 femora. Cephalic and median tibiae suffused proximad and distad 

 with dark brown. Ovipositor amber brown, becoming clay color 

 proximad. 



Length of body d* 21, 9 22.5; length of pronotum & 9.3, 9 8.2; 

 median depth of lateral lobe of pronotum cf 3.1, 9 3.2; median 

 length of lateral lobe of pronotum cf 6.4, 9 6.8; exposed length 

 of tegmen d" 3.7, 9 3.3; exposed width of tegmen cf 3.7, 9 3.4; 

 length of cephalic femur cf 7.8, 9 8.2; length of caudal femur 

 cf 16, 9 16.9; length of ovipositor 14.5 mm. 



The species is known from the described pair. 



Nicsara 71 bifasciata (Redtenbacher) 



1891. Lobaspis bifasciatus Redtenbacher, Verh. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 

 XL1, p. 459, pi. IV, fig. 65. [d\ 9; Cape York and Rockhampton, 

 Queensland, Australia.] 



Townsville, Queensland, Australia, November 4, 1899, (F. P. 

 Dodd), 1 cf . 



This is one of the handsomest and most distinctively marked 

 species of the genus. 



Length of body 34.5, length of pronotum 10, length of tegmen 

 42./, (least) median width of tegmen 6, length of cephalic femur 

 9.7, length of caudal femur 23.9 mm. 



71 The best key to the genus Nicsara is that given by Brunner for the synonymic 

 Lobaspis, Abh. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., XXIV, p. 267, (1898). 



