BY F. W. GODING. 21 



each other and the eyes, and on a line through the centre of the 

 eyes; base lighth^ curved. 



Prothorax black, densely and rudely punctured, furnished with 

 a median carina, and armed above each lateral angle with a strong, 

 triquetrous horn, which is turned outward and a little upward, 

 not at all forward, broad, compressed, and flattened at apex, 

 which is obtusely rounded, the posterior angle acuminate; the 

 posterior surface is broadest, on the inner surface several carinse; 

 dorsum between the lateral horns broad, flat, increasing in altitude 

 backward ; posterior process starts from the highest point, is 

 tectiform, and broad for some distance from the base, thereafter 

 gradually acuminate to the apex which just passes the tip of the 

 abdomen; laterally there are a few carinse. 



Tegmina ferruginous, opaque, basal portion and nearly all of 

 costal cell punctured, a white spot at the interior angle. 



Legs piceous, tibi?e triquetrous. 



Long. 9 l^j l^t- 4: mm., inch lat. corn. 6 mm. 



Described from two females. 



Types in Coll. F.W.G. 



Hab. — South Australia (Tepper). 



This is the largest Membracid yet found in Australia. 



■^S. BREVICORXIS, Sp.nOV. 



Head piceous, covered with yellow hairs, with an abbreviated 

 median carina in the centre between the ocelli, two small 

 tubercles below and forming a square with the ocelli, lateral 

 borders with a denticle near base; ocelli on a line passing through 

 the centre of the eyes and equidistant from them and from each 

 other; base lightly cur\'ed. 



Prothorax piceous brown, the dorsum convex, blackish along 

 the middle, and furnished with a strong, black median longitu- 

 dinal carina; on each side of the dorsum, above lateral angles, is 

 a short, stout, triquetrous, auricular horn turned upward, which 

 is blackish on the convex superior surface towards the very 

 obtuse tip, which ends in a blunt point, pointing outward, and a 

 trifle backward; the horn is elevated but little above the middle 



