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and a spot of same colour on base, hairy, face black, covered with 

 long white hairs; rostrum pale red, tip black, reaching hind coxae. 

 Pronotum in front narrower than head, broadened posteriorly, 

 front angles produced; black, anterior, lateral, and posterior 

 borders, and a median stripe, pale yellow, a black spot on middle 

 of hind border. Covered with short hairs. Mesonotum black, 

 lateral borders broadly, two central stripes broadest at middle, 

 and cruciform elevation, pale j^ellow; hairy. Scutellum pale red. 

 Tegmina vitreous, costa pale red, its anterior edge dark red; 

 veins and basal membrane dark red. Wings with veins fuscous, 

 anterior and posterior borders pale red; base and apex of anal 

 area infuscated. Abdomen pale reddish-yellow covered with white 

 hairs, a series of short transverse black bands along disc, and 

 base of anal appendage, black, tip pale. Body below: chest pale 

 yellow, hairy, streaked with fuscous; opercula short, reniform, 

 pale yellow, base infuscated ; abdomen sordid reddish-yellow, 

 apex fuscous, tip pale. Long. corp. 30 mm.; exp. teg. 54 mm. 



Hab. — Endeavour River, Q.; one male in the Macleay Museum. 



The row of transverse black bands on the pale yellowish abdo- 

 men will easily distinguish this species. 



■^Pauropsalta annulata, sp.nov. 



Head black, a yellow spot at base of vertex; front convex, 

 black; rostrum black, reaching middle coxse. Pronot7im black, a 

 little narrower than head, front angles produced; a middle stripe 

 or spot, front border laterally, and hind border, pale yellow. 

 Mesonotum black, lateral and hind border, pale yellow. Tegmina 

 vitreous, costa pale edged with black exteriorly, somewhat distant 

 from radial vein; veins black, basal membranes yellow, opaque. 

 Wings vitreous, veins black, paler towards base and front border; 

 anal area milky near base, apex infuscated. Abdomen black, 

 apical borders of segments (excepting the first), broadly orange 

 red. Body below black, abdomen orange-yellow, a row of lateral 

 spots, and one along middle, black. Opercula small, black, 

 separated, posterior border narrowly yellow. Legs black, tips of 



