28 A MONOGRAPH OF THE AUSTRALIAN MEMBRACID.E, 



Described from two males and one female. 



Types in Coll. F.W.G. 



Hah. — Swan River, West Australia (Lea). 



*C. MiNUTUS, sp.nov. 



Head black, triangular, deorsum, with scattered yellow hairs: 

 ocelli above a line passing through centre of eyes to which they 

 are nearer than to each other, base barely curved. 



Prothorax black at base, and apex, otherwise dark brown, con- 

 vex, armed on each side above lateral angles with a very minute 

 pointed horn extended directly outward; the dorsum most elevated 

 at base of posterior process which is distinctly sinuous, tectiform, 

 acuminate, apex reaching end of abdomen, but shorter than 

 apices of tegmina. 



Tegmina broad, short, ferruginous, and punctured at base, 

 nearly all of costal and basal third of radial cells punctured and 

 opaque; corium with the tirst discoidal cell triangular, half size of 

 second, the second long narrow, directed diagonally to apical 

 veins; third apical cell with base curved toward interior angle; 

 veins milky white; first apical cell minute. 



Body below black. Tibiae and tarsi ferruginous. 



Long. 3; lat. 1 mm.; but little broader between apices of lateral 

 horns. 



The female differs from the male in the lateral horns which are 

 little more than minute tubercles, and the broader basal cells. 



Described from three males and one female. 



Types in Coll. F.W.G. 



^^6. —South Australia (Tepper) : Mosman's Bay, N.S.W. 

 (Froggatt); Clarence River, Tamworth, N.S.W. (Lea). 



This minute species is the smallest yet found in Australia, and 

 the smallest of the genus known. 



Lu B R A, gen.nov. 



Head triangular, lateral borders sinuous. 



Prothorax rising vertically from the base, the dorsum appears 

 to divide into two long anteriorly inclined horns which are en- 



