644 AUSTRALIAN NEUROPTERA, i., 



scribed by a brown ring, above connected with a large brown 

 spot on the vertex : this spot leaves a yellowish ring round 

 each eye, and encloses, in its middle, three transversely placed 

 yellowish spots, the middle one of which is the smallest. An- 

 tennae rather long, black ; the two basal joints yellowish with 

 a brownish spot on their upper side. Eyes greenish. Pro- 

 thorax greyish-brown with a broad yellowish median streak 

 rather indistinct in front ; front margin narrow yellowish ; it 

 is about twice and one-half as long as broad in front, granu- 

 lated and with short black hairs or bristles ; finely transversely 

 sulcate in its apical part ; prothoracic tubercles very distinct, 

 reddish-brown and shining. Meso- and metathorax castaneous 

 with a yellowish streak at each side, and with dark brown 

 pleurae; venter yellowish, with small indistinct brown spots. 

 Femora and front coxae testaceous, with an indistinct greyish- 

 brown streak on their inner and outer side. Hind tibiae yel- 

 lowish, front tibiae with a narrow brown streak on their under- 

 side ; tarsi with yellowish-blackish bristles- and claws. The 

 large dents on the inner side of each of the fore-femora yellow- 

 ish at the base, brown at the tip. Wings quite hyaline. In 

 the forewings, all the nervures are brownish except costa, 

 radius and the anal veins, which are yellowish- white. In the 

 hindwing, all nervures in the two basal thirds yellowish except 

 the base of subcosta, which is brown. Pterostigma yellowish- 

 white, with an oblong yellowish-brown streak in its apical 

 part. 



Length of forewing 17 mm., hindwing 15 mm. 



Cape York (H. Elgner leg. ; one female), in Coll. Tillyard. 



The description differs in some points from the original one 

 of Gerstaecker, and, at first, I was inclined to take it for a 

 new species ; but after a careful examination of it, and com- 

 parison with specimens in the Godeffroy Coll. in the Museum 

 of Hamburg — specimens undoubtedly named by Gerstaecker as 

 Theristria feUna — I am sure it is only a variety of that species. 

 Calomantispa. 



Banks, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, xxxix., p. 209(1913). 



