BY WALTER W. FROGGATT. 675 



Crock attenuata, n.sp. (Plate xx., fig. 1.) 



Length of outspread wings 25; of hind wings 27; of body 10mm. 



General colour purplish-brown; head, except eyes and sides of 

 prothorax, yellow; meso- and metathorax mottled with the same 

 colour; legs light yellow; forewings transparent, costa tinged 

 with yellow, nervures black, hind wings light brown; abdomen 

 variegated with yellow markings. 



Head large, elongated in front; eyes large, rounded, projecting 

 on the sides; antennae situated between fore margin of the eyes, 

 erect, curving round. Prothorax elongate, cone-shaped, narrow 

 at junction with head, lightly clothed with short bristles on 

 the sides, meso- and metathorax lobed, together broadly rounded. 

 Porewings large, nearly straight on costal edge, sharply curved 

 round near the tips; hind wings thread-like, extending out beyond 

 tip of abdomen, flattened on the upper surface, composed of three 

 stout parallel nervures running close beside each other, showing 

 traces of scales along the edges. Abdomen elongated, narrow, 

 rounded at the tip. 



//a6.— Pajingo Station, Charters Towers, N.Q. (Mrs. Black). 



This insect was received from Mrs. Black with a number of 

 other specimens in a bottle of spirits of wine; and carefully dried 

 and mounted on card. 



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.EmbiiDxI:. 



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Grassi, B. — Contrib. studio Embidina App. ii. p. 133. 



Costit. e svil. Sog. dei Termitidi. Catania, 1893. 



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