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the tips. Spurs hardly as long as basal joint. Wings hyaline. 

 Veins yellowish, brownish-banded except costa and radius. Most 

 crossveins brown on their front half. Pterostigma greyish- 

 yellow. In forewing, seven crossveins before origin of radial 

 sector; in hind wing, five or six. 



Length of forewing^ 18 mm.; of hindwing, 16*5 mm. 

 Broken Hill, N.S.W ; two specimens; type in Coll. Tillyard, 

 cotype in Coll. Esb.-Petersen. 



Gymnocnemia. 



Schneider, Ent. Zeit. Stettin, vi., p.343(1845). 



No spurs. Legs rather short, strongly haired; tarsi almost as 

 long as tibiae. Fifth tarsal joint the longest; first as long as 

 second and third united; fourth the shortest. Wings very long 

 and narrow; forewing rather longer than hindwing. In hind- 

 wing, one crossvein before origin of radial sector; in forewing, 

 three or four. Branches from radial sector and from Cuj bent, 

 so that they form straight lines. 



Species known from Australia : G. tipularia Gerst.; G. penta- 

 gramma Gerst., G. interrupta, n.sp., and G. bipimctata, n.sp. 



In the two species here described, is a very small rudiment of a 

 single spur on each leg, but it is only visible by large magnifying. 



Gymnocnemia bipunctata, sp.nov. (Plates vi., fig. 3; ix., fig. 13.) 

 Face yellowish. Palpi yellowish, apical joint dark brown. A 

 broad blackish-brown interantennal spot enclosing the insertion 

 of antennae; above this band, a reddish-yellow band, and then a 

 blackish band, both in front of the much elevated vertex. On 

 the top of the vertex, several reddish-yellow and blackish spots. 

 Antennae rather long, blackish-brown, with yellowish-brown 

 annulations at the joints. Prothorax longer than broad, nar- 

 rowed in front, with rounded front angles, and with three inter- 

 rupted yellowish-red streaks, which continue on the blackish 

 meso- and metathorax. Abdomen dorsalh^ blackish, with short 

 whitish hairs, ventrally testaceous. Legs testaceous; hind tibiae 

 with blackish apex; fore and intermediate tibiae with blackish 

 tip, and two narrow blackish bands on the exterior side; tarsal 

 joints testaceous, with blackish tip. Wings long and slender. 



