30 A MONOGRAPH OF THE AUSTRALIAN MEMDRACID.f:, 



Type in the British Museum. 



£fa6.— Moreton Bay, Q. (Walker): Tweed River, N.S.W. 



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



^''L. REGALIS, sp.nOV. 



(Plate i., figs. 4 and 9). 



Head piceous, triangular, with two minute tubercles on each 

 side Qn the lateral borders; ocelli near the base, above a line 

 passing through the centre of eyes, equidistant from each other 

 and the eyes. 



Prothorax dark ferruginous, rising vertically from the base, 

 laterally compressed, the dorsum widened on each side into a 

 long laterally compressed horn, which is much thickened and 

 reticulated towards the apex and much inclined forward, the apex 

 curved inward ending in a triangular point which meets with 

 its fellow forming the half of a circle, bearing a short, stout, 

 sharp spine on the exterior surface; the posterior process is very 

 slender, sinuous, much shorter than the tegmina, the apex acumi- 

 nate 



Tegmina clear, vitreous, with the entire basal fourth ferrugi- 

 nous, punctured and opaque, the veins and a large spot of the 

 same colour on the apices; clavus gradually acuminate, vitreous, 

 ferruginous at the base, with two veins. 



Legs light ferruginous, tips of tarsi piceous. 



Described from one example, the body of which is wanting. 



Type in Coll. F.W.G. 



Hab. — Brisbane, Q. (Tryon). 



D A u X u s, Stal. 



1866, Hemiptera Africana, iv. p. 87. 



Prothorax elevated, furnished with a median carina, armed on 

 each side above lateral angles with a broad horn, triquetrous at 

 the base, compressed upward from front and behind ; apex 

 broadened, truncated, sometimes furnished with a very short spine; 

 posterior process acuminate, rarely reaching apices of tegmina. 



