BY F. W. CODING AND W. W. FROGGATT. 617 



red marks ; opercula black, broad, extending a little beyond 

 sides of abdomen, separated; abdomen bright red, black at base 

 and apex, and a row of black spots on each side. Legs black, 

 spot near base of tibiae and most of tarsi pale yellow. Long, 

 corp. 21 mm.; exp. teg. 55 mm. 



Hah. — Leura, N.S.W.; Adelaide, Onkapinge, Summerton, S.A. 



9. Yar. Head with a percurrent median stripe; 'pronotumi 

 with a median stripe, two large spots on each side, lateral and 

 hind borders, pale red; mesonotum with lateral borders, two 

 middle stripes uniting with cruciform elevation which are angu- 

 lated at middle interiorly, cruciform elevation, hind borders of 

 all segments of abdomen, red; anal appendage with a dorsal 

 stripe and large spot on each side red; costa red bordered with 

 black; legs striped with red. 



This is the common Black Squeaker on the Blue Mountains 

 around Leura and Katoomba about the new year. It clings to 

 the stems of the small Eucalypts, making a short flight when 

 disturbed; the male when calling depresses the tip of the body, 

 drops his wings, and produces a regular sharp squeaking note 

 repeated several times. 



*Pauropsalta castanea, sp.nov, 



-^eac? castaneous, middle of front border black; front lightly 

 convex, castaneous, with lateral black streaks; rostrum casta- 

 neous, passing hind coxae. Pronotiiin width of head, not narrowed 

 in front; castaneous, the furrowed space, on each side, occupied 

 with a large, well defined, piceous spot. Mesonotum castaneous, 

 two longitudinal discal lines, lateral and posterior borders with 

 cruciform elevation, yellow. Tegmina vitreous, costa and veins 

 sordid yellow. Wings with venation pale yellow. Abdomen cas- 

 taneous, apical borders of segments and anal appendage yellow, 

 the latter with two castaneous stripes and tip black. Body 

 below castaneous ; abdomen sordid yellow, tip of ovipositor 

 fuscous. Ze^s castaneous. Long. corp. 23 mm.; exp. teg. 60 mm. 



Hah. — Karth; one female in the South Australian Museum, 

 collected by C. M, Bagot. 

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