BY F. W. GODING AND W. W. FROGGATT. 637 



borders ; rostrum reaching base of posterior coxse. Proriotum 

 width of head, black, rugose; front angles produced. Mesonotum 

 black, rugose, a red spot on each side of scutellum. Tegmina 

 vitreous, costa and venation black, postcostal marginal space 

 bright red, first and second transverse veins very lightly infuscated 

 in some examples; basal membranes red. Wings with interior 

 and exterior borders and basal membranes red; veins black. 

 Abdomen black, apical borders of segments, excepting the first 

 and last, bright red. Below : chest black with scattering red 

 marks; opercula red or pale yellow, black at base, reniform, dis- 

 tant; abdomen red or yellow, base, central stripe, blackish. Legs 

 black, femora and tibi?e marked with red. Long. corp. 24-27 

 mm.; exp. teg. 62-72 mm. 



llah. — Port Denison, Queensland (Distant) ; Cooma, N.S.W.; 

 Tooya and Lakes' Entrance, Vic. 



Allied to abdominalis. 



*Melampsalta castanea, sp.nov. 



Head castaneous, two black spots enclosing ocelli; front con- 

 vex, castaneous, middle broken stripe and borders yellowish; 

 rostrum castaneous, reaching hind coxse. Pronotum a little 

 narrower in front than head, broader posteriorly, castaneous, 

 furrows, and two narrow central black stripes between which is 

 a yellow stripe. Mesonotam castaneous, with four obconical 

 obsolete black stripes, the middle pair shorter and edged nar- 

 rowly with yellow; posterior border, cruciform elevation, and 

 scutellum yellow. Tegmina vitreous or suffused with brown, 

 venation, with that of wings, castaneous. Abdomen equal in 

 length to combined length of head and thorax, dark castaneous, 

 apical borders of segments and anal appendage red, the latter 

 with two lateral spots and two dorsal stripes fuscous. Body 

 below : chest castaneous mottled with yellow ; opercula very 

 large, disc-shaped and convex on the lower surface with the 

 borders impressed, the inner borders touching, laterally extend- 

 ing beyond sides, posteriorly reaching middle of abdomen, red; 

 abdomen red, base of first and last segments and tip of ovipositor 



