BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 601 



141. Ceroplatus Mastbrsi, Sk. 



C. Mastersi, Sk., I.e., p. 1164, pi. xxxi., fig. 3. 



Very numerous on windows in Sydney during March, April, 

 and May. A few specimens have been taken in August. This 

 insect also occurs in Queensland (F. Allbon), in Mai'ch; sjiecimens 

 in Coll. Queensland Museum. T have recently bred this species 

 from luminous larvae inhabiting damp rotten wood obtained by 

 Mr. J. J. Fletcher at Blue Mountains, N.S.W. 



Genus Heteropterna, Sk. 

 Hetero2yterna, Sk., I.e., p. 1166, pi. xxxi., figs 4-4e. 



464. Heteropterna afpinis, sp.n. 



^. — Length of antennae 0'042 inch ... 1-06 millimetres. 



Expanse of wings 0-145 x 0-060 ... 3-66x1-54 



Size of body 0-240x0-040 ... 6-09 x 1-01 



Remarkably like H. Macleayi, Sk., in size and colouring; the 

 differences are as follows : — Antennae rather shorter, sooty-brown. 

 Palpi and hypostoma reddish-fulvous. Thorax with two con- 

 vergent oehi'aceous lines from the humeral spots, meeting just 

 before scutellum ; pleurse deep brown or black with very little 

 ochraceous. Hind femora only slightly brown at the tip. In the 

 fore-legs the tarsi rather more than twice the length of the tibise ; 

 in the hind-legs the tarsi a little longer than the tibiae ; the meta- 

 tarsal joint about the length of and not thicker than the tibise in 

 the fore-legs. 



Hah. — Dunoon, Richmond River, N.S.W. (Helms). Two speci- 

 mens in March. 



Ohs. — Very closely related to //. Macleayi, Sk., but readily 

 distinguished by the form of the hind-legs, the lines on the 

 thorax, and the colour of the antennae. I cannot see any differ- 

 ence in the wings, or in the colour of the abdomen (which is 

 deep brown or black, with the third to fifth segments bordered 

 anteriorly with ochraceous in both species). 



