AUSTRALIAN CK'A Ml DM A8HTON1 7'.l 



Abdomen. — Black, laterally fuscous and greyishly-pilose 

 margined with green on segmental borders. Below, a central, 

 prominent shining black spot bel ween the opercula, which are 

 large and greyish-ochraceous. Abdomen below greyish-testaceous 

 with central black fascia broadening towards apex but ending at 

 anal plate, which is light-testaceous. 



Tegmina. — Hyaline; casta fuscous margined with black, 

 apically black ; venation deep fuscous merging into black at apex. 

 Wings hyaline, neuration fuscous, 



Measurements. — Length of body 13 mm. to 11 mm.; expanse 

 of tegmina, 32 mm. to 34 mm. 



Obs. — Allied to M. incepta, Walk. 



Hah. — Perth, Western Australia. 



Melampsalta landsboroughi, Distant. 



Melampsalta landsboroughi, Distant, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1882, 

 p. 131 ; Goding and Froggatt, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 

 xxix., 1904, p. 639. 



Melampsalta telxiope (nee. Walk.), God. and Frogg., Loc. cit., 

 p. 642. 



Melampsalta landsboroughi, var. convergj.ns, 

 God. and Frogg. 



Melampsalta convergent!, God. and Frogg., Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 N. S. Wales, xxix., 1904, p. 633. 



Obs. — Judging from the determinations of Messrs. Goding and 

 Froggatt in the Macleay Museum Collection, these authors have 

 been misled by the very variable form, both in size and colour 

 of the <£, and in the case of their classification of M. telxiope, 

 Walk., by reliance on a very faded £ specimen, which does not 

 at all agree with their description. The <J of M. landsboroughi 

 varies in colouration even more than the £. In addition to the 

 typical form described by Distant we have at least one well- 

 marked variety. Put for the extreme minuteness of M. murray- 

 ensis, Dist , 1 would feel inclined to include it as a variety. 

 Leaving it out, however, we find Distant's typical form, with a 

 honey-coloured abdomen, above which runs the broad, character- 

 istic black stripe. The head and thorax are black for the most 

 part, with markings of fuscous or ferruginous. 



