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increasing in length towards tip, 10th short, elongate-oval. Eyes 

 rounded, projecting very slightly: central ocellus small, at extreme 

 apex of median suture; lateral ocelli small, about centre of hind- 

 margin of eyes. Thorax : pronotum broad, rounded in front, arcuate 

 behind, a small fovea on either side; dorsulum convex, rounded 

 in front, pointed at tips, sloping to a truncate apex at junction 

 with mesonotum, the latter broad, arcuate in front, running to a 

 blunt point on sides, rounded behind, broad and nearly square. 

 Legs long, stout. Wings more than twice as long as broad, 

 rounded in front, pointed at apex, rounded to base; primary stalk 

 long; stalk of subcosta short ; stigma short, rounded at base, 

 pointed at apex; radius long, curving upward, then turning down 

 above tip of wing; stalk of cubitus longer than subcosta, upper 

 branch of cubitus long, upper and lower forks nearly equal in 

 length, forming a long slender cell, lower one curving downward; 

 lower branch of cubitus moderately long, upper fork short, curving 

 round, lower fork very short, turning outward, forming a short, 

 broad cell; clavus stout, clavical suture long, slender. Abdomen 

 short, stout. Genitalia: (g) ochreous, broad, short; lower genital 

 plate round, broad; forceps short, broad, rounded at tip; upper 

 genital plate long, slender : (£) sabre-shaped, long, slender. 



Hob. — Tarn worth, N.S.W. (on E. sp.; A. IVl. Lea). 



Four specimens in the collection of the Department of 

 Agriculture, Sydney, pinned and labelled " Tamworth, collected 

 by Mr. Lea." 



LITERATURE. 



1. — Anderson, T. On a new Species of Manna from New South Wales : 



Eclinb. New Phil. Journ. xlvii. 1849, p. 132. 

 2. — Dobson, T. On Laap, or Lerp, the Cup-like Coverings of Psyllida? found 



on the leaves of certain Eucalypti : P. & Proc. R. Soc. Van Diemen's 



Land. Vol. i. Pt. 3, 1851, p. 235. 

 3. — Wooster, W. W. How the Lerp Crystal Palace is built: Journ. Micros. 



Soc. Victoria. Vol. i. 1882, p. 91. 

 4. — Tepper, J. G. 0. Remarks on the "Manna" or Lerp Insect of South 



Australia : Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool. Vol. xvii. 1883, p. 109. 



