BY F. W. GODING. 17 



Tegrnina subvinaceous hyaline, base and costa ferruginous and 

 punctured; base of third apical cell curved toward interior. 

 Sides of chest and scutellum densely silky gray, pubescent. 



Long. $ 41, 9 5; lat. 2 mm. 



Type in Mus. Holm. 



Food plant, Acacia pycnantha. 



Hah. — Australia (Stal): Homebush, Tweed R., Sydney, ;N".S.W. 

 (Lea); Clermont, Tweed R., Maitland, Mittagong, Richmond R., 

 N.S.W. (Froggatt) : Swan R., Geraldton, Pinjarrah, West Aus- 

 tralia (Lea) : Largs Bay, N. Mecklenburg, South Australia 

 (Tepper) : Victoria (French) : Tasmania (Simson). 



Resembles the preceding, differing from it in the lateral horns 

 being turned outward, and the median carina not elevated in an 

 angle or horn, but slightly foliaceous at middle. The male is 

 smaller, its lateral horns very diminutive. 



■*A. Kershawi, sp.nov. 



Head black, triangular, apex acute, strongly curved backward. 

 Eyes prominent; ocelli above a line passing through centre of 

 eyes, near base, nearer to eyes than to each other. 



Prothorax inclined backward from base, piceous brown, 

 covered with yellow hairs; lateral horns, short, turned directly 

 outward, horizontal, slender, very acute; posterior process 

 obtusely angled at base, thereafter slender, strongly sinuous to 

 decurved acuminate apex, which does not reach the tips of 

 tsgmina. 



Tegmina with the costa and clavus entirely opaque and 

 punctured, two discoidal cells, the second nearly circular, almost 

 reaching exterior border of corium; veins brown, covered with 

 yellow hairs; third apical cell crescentiform. 



Body, femora and tarsi black. 



Long. (J 3 J, 9 4 mm.; lat. (J 1, 9 U mm. 



Described from one male and two females. 



Types in Coll. F.W.G. 



^a6.— Thornleigh, Blue Mts., N.S.W. (Froggatt). 

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