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of nearly uniform length, decreasing in length to apex. Eyes 

 very large, rounded on the outer margins, somewhat reniform in 

 shape; central ocellus very small, at extreme base of median 

 suture; lateral ocelli large, in line with hind angle of eyes. 

 Thorax : pronotum of uniform width, broadest and rugose at 

 extremities, arcuate behind; dorsulum short and broad in propor- 

 tion, rounded in front, sloping on sides to hindmargin; mesonotum 

 large, arcuate in front, swelling out on either side of dorsulum, 

 angulated at extremities, and rounded behind to junction with 

 small oval scutellum. Legs rather short and stout. Winers 

 nearly thrice as long as broad, coming to almost an acute point 

 at tip; primary stalk moderately long; stalk of subcosta short, 

 but longer than stalk of cubitus, forming a slender well-defined 

 stigma or subcostal cell; radius long, running close to eosta and 

 coming out exactly at 'tip of wing; stalk of cubitus very short, 

 upper branch of cubitus long, upper and lower forks long, forming 

 a large cell, upper one longest; lower branch of cubitus short, 

 upper fork long, curving round, lower fork rounded and curving 

 inward at tip; clavus stout, clavical suture long and distinct. 

 Abdomen broad, coming to a point at tip. 

 //a6.— Rylstone, N.S.W. (W. W. Froggatt). 



Aphalara obscura, n.sp. (Plate iv., fig. 4). 



Larca dull yellow, eyes red. Head large, broadly lobed in 

 front on either side, antenm^ standing out from eyes, pointed at 

 apex ; thorax forming three regular segments, abdomen not as 

 long as thorax, rounded at apex and fringed with short spines 

 round the extremity. 



Papa with dorsal surface ochreous, but so thickly blotched 

 with brown that it shows only as a dorsal stripe down centre of 

 head and thorax, lines behind head and wing-covers forming a 

 square between the latter, and several transverse lines on basal 

 half of abdomen separating these brow^n bands; ventral surface 

 lighter brown, with abdominal segments marked with transverse 

 bands of blackish spots. Head large, rounded in front, arcuate 

 behind base of antenna^ rounded behind; eves large; antennie 



