BY E. PETKRSEN. 645 



Calomantispa SPECTABILIS. (PI. Ixv., fig. 12). 



Banks, ibid., pl.xxiv., fig. 15. 



This distinct genns is only known from Australia, and is 

 one of the finest marked genera in the Mantispidae. 



Herberton, one specimen (Dodd leg.), in Coll. Tillyard, 



Besides this species, the genus also includes (/. 'pirfa Stitz, 

 from New South Wales (Mitt, aus Zool. Mus. Berlin, vii., p. 

 45, fig. 40, 1913). 



EXPLANATION OF PLATES LXXIL-LXXV. 

 Plate Ixxii. 



P^ig.l. — Austronymphes insularis, sp.n. ; Coll. Froggatt. 

 Fig. 2. — Nesydrlon nigrinerve, sp.n. ; Coll. Froggatt. 

 Fig. 3. — ■Xcsi/drioii fuscidu Gerst.; Mus. Hamburg. 



Plate Ixxiii. 

 Fig. 4. — Oligochrysa gracilis, sp.n. ; Coll. Petersen. 

 Fig. 5. — Nothochrysa froggatti, sp.n. ; Coll. Froggatt. 

 Fig. 6. — Nothochrysa chloromelas Girard; Coll. Froggatt. 



Plate Ixxiv. 

 Fig. 7. — OvdoauuiJus pallid u.s INlacLachl.; Coll. Tillyard. 

 Fig. 8. — Drcpanopteryx humilis MacLachl. ; Coll. Froggatt. 

 Fig. 9. — Megaldmina acuminata Bks. ; Coll. Froggatt. 



Plate Ixxv. 

 Fig. 10. — Mantispa tillyardl, sp.n. ; Coll. Petersen. 

 Fig. 11. — Theristria felina Gerst.; Coll. Tillyard. 

 Fig. 12. — Calomaibtispa spectahilis Bks. ; Coll. Tillyard. 



