BY F. W. GODING AND W. W. FROGGATT. 653 



pale yellow, with a fuscous spot on base. Long. corp. 13 mm.; 

 exp. teg. 30 mm. 



Hah. — South Australia; several examples, of both sexes, in the 

 Macleay Museum. 



^Melampsalta tristrigata, sp.nov. 



Ifead sordid red, convex, with several small spots on vertex; 

 front sordid red, with a broad dark central stripe, and a basal 

 yellow spot. Pronotum subequal to breadth of head, front 

 angles prominent; sordid red, two broken central stripes, two 

 lateral stripes, stripes along the furrows, and hind angles, fus- 

 cous, Mesonotum pale red, with four obconical black stripes, 

 the inner pair shorter, behind which are two dots, outer pair 

 excavated. Tegmina vitreous, costa red, venation black, basal 

 membranes red. Wings with venation black. Abdomen stout, 

 pale red, a central stripe, and a row of lateral dots, base of last 

 segment, and a stripe on each side of anal segment, black. Body 

 below : chest red and black variegated; abdomen pale red, a 

 band on base and a large spot on anal appendage black; opercula 

 short, narrow, apical border rounded, pale red with base black. 

 Legs pale red streaked with black. Long. corp. 16 mm.; exp. 

 teg. 44 mm. 



^a6.— Kuranda, Q. (collected by Dodd); Sydney, N.S.W.; five 

 examples (Coll. G. & F.). 



Allied to M. landsborouyhi, but with different facies. 



Melampsalta warburtoni, Dist. 

 1882. P.Z.S.L. p. 129, pi. 7, fig. 9. 



Head with vertex black, front ochraceous, with a black central 

 longitudinal line. Fjonotum ochraceous, a central longitudinal 

 fascia, lateral and posterior margins dark castaneous. Mesonotum 

 dark castaneous, with two pale irregular fasciae on disc, com- 

 mencing on anterior margin and terminating at anterior angles 

 of cruciform elevation; anterior lateral margins narrowlj^ ochra- 

 ceous. Tegmina and wings pale hyaline, with the venation 



