BY F. W. CODING AND W. W. PROGGATT. 605 



^'TlBICEN GILMOREI, Dist. 



1882. P.Z.S.L. p. 127, pi. 7, fig. 8. 



(J. Body above testaceous. Head castaneous, vertex darker 

 than front, area of the ocelli blackish. Pronotura with a central 

 fuscous longitudinal fascia, base wide and triangular, hind margin 

 fuscous, posterior edge pale ochraceous. Mesonotum with two 

 central obconical spots bordered with ochraceous, a curved fascia 

 on each side of disc connected with anterior hranches of cruci- 

 form elevation ochraceous, a lateral black fascia bordered out- 

 wardly and inwardly with ochraceous; basal elevation ochraceous, 

 a black spot at centre and one on each branch near apex. Teymina 

 and wings pale hyaline; veins fuscous, anastomoses and connect- 

 ing longitudinal veins (excepting that before the last anastomosis) 

 infuscated, apices of longitudinal veins narrowly infuscated. 

 Abdomen sparingly pilose, posterior segmental margins ochraceous. 

 Body beneath and legs ochraceous; face castaneous; disc of abdo- 

 men castaneous, posterior segmental margin pale, anal appendage 

 with a central longitudinal fuscous streak. Body short; front of 

 head produced and prominent, face long, convex, rostrum reach- 

 ing posterior coxse; opercula small. Long. corp. 18 mm.: exp. 

 teg. 60 mm. 



Allied to T. itdemipta, Walk., but larger, body shorter and 

 more robust; front much more produced. 



Hah. — Swan River, Aust. (Distant). One male in the collec- 

 tion of the Public Museum, Adelaide, collected by Mr. J. G. 

 Tepper, has the venation yellow in places. 



*TlBICEN KURAND.E, sp.nOV. 



Head ochraceous, lateral borders, large irregular spot on vertex, 

 black ; front convex, ochraceous, a median stripe divided at 

 apex does not reach base or apex of front; sides of face ochraceous, 

 with a broad black stripe; clypeus ochraceous, with a median 

 fuscous stripe; rostrum tawny, tip fuscous, passing far beyond 

 hind cox^e; covered with dense white floury tomentum. Pro- 

 notum ochraceous, two curved central stripes which do not reach 

 posterior border, a spot behind each eye, a submarginal stripe on 



