

BY WALTER W. FKOGGATT. 295 



and ocelli red; dorsulum and mesonotum pale yellow, thickly 

 mottled with light chestnut ; wings semitransparent with an 

 opaline tint, nervures light brown; abdomen red to reddish-brown, 

 finely barred with black. Head short, broad, fitting very close 

 against thorax, rounded in front, arcuate behind, without the 

 usual frontal cleft but with a fine median suture without fovea. 

 Face lobes short and rounded, hidden when viewed from above. 

 Antennae ver}'- slender, but short; 1st joint ver}^ short; 2nd more 

 elongate, longer than usual; 3rd longest, slender at apex; 5tli-8th 

 shorter; 9th shorter; 10th shorter, truncate at tip. Eyes large, 

 projecting, angular on inner margin : central ocelli at base of 

 median suture; lateral ocelli large, not as close to the eyes as in 

 most species. Thorax : pronotum narrow, rounded in front, 

 extremities reaching to inner margin of eye; dorsulum small, 

 rounded in front, arcuate on either side, forming a truncate tip, 

 rounded behind; mesonotum large, arcuate in front, swelling out 

 and rounded on both sides to scutellum. Legs stout, rather long. 

 Wings thrice as long as broad, rounded in front, pointed at tips; 

 primary stalk long, stalk of subcosta short; subcostal nervure 

 forming a stout angulated stigma; radius long, turning slightly 

 upward, running out at tip of wing; stalk of cubitus long, turning- 

 downward, upper branch of cubitus arching upward; upper fork 

 longest, curving upward ; lower fork a little shorter, turning 

 downward; lower branch of cubitus short, slightly curved; upper 

 fork sharply rounded, turning down; lower fork short, turning 

 inward; clavus long, stout; clavical suture long. Abdomen short, 

 stout. Genitalia : {^) lower genital plate short, conical, forceps 

 broad at base, tapering to tip; upper genital plate large, and 

 longest: (9) very large, long, and sabre-shaped, upper genital 

 plate thickest, shorter, ribbed on sides ; lower genital plate 

 longest, finely toothed on upper edge, "truncate at tip. 



Hab. — Mittagong, N.S.W. (on Eucalyptus capiteAlata; W. W. 

 Froggatt). 



The larvae and pupse in all stages of growth cluster over the 

 bark of the branches of the Eucalypt, enveloped in a white sticky 

 secretion, which envelopes the whole of the insect, and appears 



