282 AUSTRALIAN PSYLLID/E, 



antennae slightly longer than width of head; eyes large, globular, 

 projecting, occupying the whole side of head. Thorax : pronotum 

 greatly convex ti'ansversely, lateral impressions large and deep; 

 dorsulum less than twice the length of pronotum, sharply rounded 

 in front; mesonotum very little convex in front; side-pieces of 

 pro- and mesosternum prominent. Wings elongate-oval; veins 

 fine, none of them curving much; stalk of cubitus longer than 

 that of subcosta; a distinct large ptei-ostigma; tip of wing at 

 termination of fourth furcal. Epimera of mesosternum greatly 

 developed, transverse ; spiniform processes very small, vertical. 

 Legs short and robust, hind tibiae without a broad tooth; tarsi 

 normal. 



Type Cardiaspis artifex, Schwarz. 



Cardiaspis artifkx, Schwarz. 

 (Plates xi., fig. 10; xii., fig. 9; xiv., fig. 14). 



C. artifex, Schwarz, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington. Yol. iv. p. 72, 

 1896. 



Lerji convex, 3 lines in diameter; singly upon the leaves of E. 

 robusta, attached to the leaf by a brown hinge from which comes 

 an opaque- whitish angular piece, rounded at the apex, convex 

 and curving upward, from which on all sides radiate a number of 

 slender parallel ribs, which just touch, but are not attached to 

 the leaf at their extremities, the ribs being bound together by a 

 number of transverse, more slender bands or filaments; the whole 

 forming a beautiful pecten-like shell of open net- work; at the 

 base above the opaque centre the filaments are bright red, below 

 this pale semi-transparent tinted with yellow, right round the 

 outer half bright pink. 



Larva and pupa moving about freely under the lerp; with a 

 few short white filaments on sides of abdomen. 



Imayo. — Length 0-105; antenme - 015 inch. 



General colour yellowish-brown, face lobes red, eyes brown, 

 front of dorsulum reddish, mesonotum banded with a slender 

 central dorsal stripe and two parallel chestnut-coloured bars on 



