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like filaments under which they hide. Mr. French says : — "My 

 clothes were quite white, and hundreds of the little creatures 

 were crawling over my coat after pushing my wa}'^ through the 

 scrub." 



Cardiaspis rubra, n.sp. (Plate v., figs. 1 and 3). 



Early stages and life-history unknown ; imago collected on 

 scrub. 



Imago. — Length 0*08, antennse 0-0175 inch. General colour 

 bright red, mottled with dull reddish-orange and ochreous on 

 head and thorax; centre of vertex, legs, antennas, edges of pro- 

 notum, two blotches in centre of dorsulum and five on mesono- 

 tum blackish; abdomen red, deeply banded with black, wings 

 slightly opaque, nervures rose-red. Head small, arcuate behind, 

 rounded and slightly lobed in front, with distinct median suture 

 and deep fovea. Face lobes large, spatulate at apex, open at base 

 but in contact at tips. Antennae short, 4th-9th joints short, apex 

 slightly thickened. Eyes large, truncate on inner margin; cen- 

 tral ocelli small, lateral ocelli small. Thorax : pronotum ribbon- 

 shaped, curved in front, an impressed fovea near each extremity, 

 slightly raised on hind margin; dorsulum convex, very short, 

 broad, rounded to a blunt point at extremities; mesonotum large, 

 arcuate in front, somewhat truncate on sides, rounded from hind 

 angle; scutellum large, rounded behind. Legs stout, tibise long, 

 terminal joint of tarsi large. Wings elongate-oval, more than 

 twice as long as broad; costal nervure thickened at base to 

 stigma; primary stalk short, stalk of subcosta a little shorter 

 than stalk of cubitus ; subcosta running in costa with well- 

 defined stigma; radius emerging above tip of wing; upper branch 

 of cubitus long, straight, upper fork shorter, emerging just below 

 tip of wing, lower fork shorter, turned down; lower branch of 

 cubitus not as long as upper fork; lower fork short, turning down, 

 clavus stout, clavical suture slender. Abdomen very short, broad, 

 terminating in rounded tip. Genitalia in 9 forming two short 

 valves. 



Ilah. — Mt. Wellington, Hobart, Tasmania (on Eiicafi/ptus 

 cocci/era; A. M. Lea; two specimens 9). 



