BY F. W. GODING AND W. W. PROGGATT. 641 



red, a row of transverse yellow bands on each side in front of 

 the red; anal appendage tawny. Body below: chest black, 

 streaked with red; opercula small, distant, reniform, transverse, 

 apical half tawn}^; abdomen red, a row of discal spots, last seg- 

 ment, and a spot on each side at base of anal appendage, black, 

 apical borders of segments yellow. Leys red streaked with fus- 

 cous. Long. Corp. 18 mm.; exp. teg. 52 mm. 



llab. — Sydney, N.S.W.; one male, in the National Museum, 

 Melbourne. 



This is quite distinct from any examined. 



*Melampsalta infuscata, sp.nov. 



Head black; convex in front, a pale red spot on base of vertex; 

 front black, a red stripe on each side, sides of face black, the 

 borders pale red, hairy; rostrum dark red, reaching hind coxa?. 

 Pronotiun narrower than head, sides parallel, black, front and 

 hind borders, and an obsolete median stripe, pale red; front 

 angles produced. Mesonotwni black, two median stripes broadened 

 at middle, lateral borders, and disc of cruciform elevation, pale 

 red. Scutellum pale i-ed, a black spot on each side and one at 

 middle. Tegniina vitreous, the two ulnar veins distinct but 

 contiguous and for a distance parallel; veins sordid red. Wings 

 with veins reddish, base and apex of anal area infuscated. 

 Abdomen black, apical borders of segments pale red, tip of anal 

 appendage yellow. Body below: chest fuscous streaked with 

 pale red; opercula pale, basal half fuscous, small, short, distant; 

 abdomen light fuscous, hind borders of segments pale red, apex 

 pale. Legs reddish-fuscous. Long. corp. 10 mm.; exp. teg. 44mm. 



llab. — South Australia; several examples in the Macleay 

 Museum. 



This is the only species of the genus seen with apex of anal 

 areas of wings infuscated. 



*Melampsalta flava, sp.nov. 



Yellow, two stripes on disc of mesonotum, two dots following 

 them, a short narrow stripe on each side of these dots, base and 



