24 A MONOGRAPH OF THE AUSTRALIAN MEMBRACIDyE, 



"^S. cuRviCAUDUs, sp.nov. 



Head triangular, base nearly straight, lateral borders denticu- 

 late; ocelli on a line passing through centre of eyes, and equidistant 

 from each other and the eyes. 



Prothorax piceous, with a median percurrent carina, armed on 

 each side with a rather long, very flat horn turned almost directly 

 outward, ver}-- slightly upward, apex curved a little backward, and 

 but little elevated above dorsum; posterior process very broad 

 from base to middle, then slender and gradually acuminate to the 

 apex, strongly decurved from base to the apex which reaches tips 

 of tegmina. 



Tegmina with very little of base punctured, vitreous, and trans- 

 parent, veins piceous, corium with first discoidal cell about one- 

 half the size of the second, the second apical cell very small. 



Long. 7; lat. 2 mm.; incl. lat. corn. 5 mm. 



Described from two males. 



Types in Coll. F.W.G. 



iTa^.— Tweed River, N.S.W. (Froggatt). 



A small piceous species with the posterior process strongly 

 curved downward from base to apex. 



EuFRENCHiA, gen.nov. 



Head nearly triangular, lateral border denticulate, convex in 

 front, base nearly straight; eyes prominent outward. 



Prothorax rudely punctured or reticulate, rises vertical]}^ from 

 base, armed on each side with a long, strong, vertical, flattened 

 horn, with sides parallel, superior part curved outward, falciform, 

 apex obtuse, with two little teeth, between which is a shallow 

 sulcus ; posterior process long, slender, apex lightly decurved 

 slightly passing apices of tegmina; lateral horns near at bases, 

 between which median carina is obsolete. 



Tegmina with cells of corium narrow, three discoidal cells, the 

 first placed between the radial and first ulnar veins in front of 

 second apical cell, second and third between the first and second 



