150 DESCRIPTIOXS OF NEW AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOrXERA. 



Family HOMOPTERID-E. 

 GiRPA (HULODES) INAN-GULATA, Gd. 



Queensland generally. 



GiRPA (HuLODES) ERIOPHORA. Gn. 



GeraldtX)n (Messrs. Meek and Barnard i. 



GiRPA (HCLODES) PERTENDEXS. Walk. 



Queensland generally. 



GiRPA (HULODES) FRATERNA. Moore. 



Geraldton (Messrs. Meek and Barnard). 



I believe the above to be varieties of one species. The wh^.le 

 occurring in Queensland as in India seems to confirm this opinion, 

 while in a large number we meet with every intermediate form. 

 If this view be correct, all the species except G. inangulata, Gn., 

 must drop. 



AXODAPHA BOARMOIDES, Gn. 



Brisbane ; also in Ceylon. 



Family PHYLLODID.i]. 



Agonista Meekii, sp.nov. 



rj^. 50-58 mm. Head, antennae, palpi, thorax and abdomen 

 ochreous-fuscous or fusco as-drab. Forewings triangular, broadly 

 dilate, costa straight, apical third rounded, apex acute, hindmargin 

 obliquely rounded, fusc-ous-drab, cinereous-drab or ochreous-fuscous, 

 thickly dusted with black : a black fascia diflPused like an ink-blot 

 from 5 costa to \ inner margin, a second immediately beyond, a 

 third extending as a diffused smoky-fuscous band from costa at 

 f to |- to inner margin, from f to anal angle, with three or four 

 darker bands cro.ssing : a fourth and dark black linear straight 



