BY WALTER W. FROGGATT. 285 



General colour dark brown to ochreous, marked with yellow, 

 eyes reddish-brown, basal joints of antennae brown, apical ones 

 black; wings hyaline, nervures light brown, all the inner ones 

 broadly marked with dark brown. Head broad, deeply cleft in 

 front, sides sloping round to eyes, deeply arcuate at base. Face 

 lobes large, conical, turning downward. Antennae short; lst-2nd 

 joints short, broad; 3rd very long, slender; 4th-9th short, uniform; 

 10th short, slightly thickened, truncated at tip. Eyes very large, 

 rounded, projecting: central ocellus very small, at apex of cleft; 

 lateral ocelli vitreous, close to hind margin of eye. Thorax : 

 prothorax angulated in front, short, deeply arcuate Ijehind ; 

 dorsulum rounded in front, truncate behind, rounded on sides; 

 mesothorax broad, of uniform width to wings; scutellum truncate 

 in front, rounded behind. Legs rather long, -slender, thighs stout, 

 tarsi large. Wings slightl}'' more than twice as long as broad^ 

 rounded on both sides, terminating in a rounded tip; primary 

 stalk long, parallel; stalk of subcosta rather long, sloping upward, 

 no costal cell or stigma, cross nervure running straight into 

 costal nervure; radius very short, turning up into costal nervure; 

 no cubital stalk; upper branch of cubitus long, arched, turning- 

 downward ; upper fork very short, turning upward, emerging 

 above the tip of wing; lower fork shorter, turning down below 

 the tip; lower branch of cubitus long, upper fork short, arched; 

 lower fork very short, running straight down into mai'gin of 

 wing; clavus very long and stout, clavical suture very slight. 

 Abdomen short, coming to a rounded tip. Genitalia: (g) very 

 short, broad, and turned up over the back; lower genital plate 

 very large, broad, round; forceps large, peg-shaped; upper genital 

 plate peg-shaped, turned backward. 



Hab. — Manly, near Sydney, N.S.W. (on Casuarina distyla; 

 W. W. Froggatt). 



This is a very remarkable species, the larval and pupal forms 

 being quite different from any other known to me, their slender, 

 elongate forms being admirabl}-^ adapted for clinging to the 

 slender foliasre of the she-oak. 



