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CATALOGUE OF 



It may be disting^uished from all ihe preceding Australian species of 

 this genus by its slender form and by its short oviduct. 



a. Swan River. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



62. Phaneroptera albidiceps. 



xoem. Teslacea, sat gracilis ; caput albidum ; ocull fulvi, rotundi, pro- 

 mmuli ; antenn(s fulvcB ; protlwracis carince laterales bene deter- 

 minate ; sternum incisum ; oviductus brevissimus, valde arcuatus ; 

 pedes graciles, longiusculi, femoribus inermibus, tibiis spinulosis ; alee 

 antiae angtistce, punctis nonnullis discnidalibus margineque postico 

 fuscis ; alee postica diuphanee, plaga apicali testacea. 



Female. Testaceous, smooth, rather slender. Head whitish, with the 

 usual structure, almost as broad as the piothorax ; fore part shining. Eyes 

 lawny, round, prominent. Palpi with the usual structure. Antennae tawny, 

 long, slender. Prothorax with a flat disk which widens very slightly hind- 

 ward and is bordered on each side by a sharply-defined keel ; fore border 

 slightly excavated ; sides and hind border rounded. Sternum notched in 

 each division. Oviduct deep, much curved, not more than one-fourth of 

 the length of the abdomen. Legs slender, rather long; femora without 

 spines; bind femora incrassa ted for more than half the length from the 

 base ; four anterior tibiae with very minute spines : hind tibioB with minute 

 spines. Fore wings narrow, sborter by nearly one line than the hind wings, 

 with a few brown points in the disk and with brown minute areolets along 

 the hind border; large areolets irregular. Hind wings pellucid, with a 

 testaceous apical patch; longitudinal veins pale testaceous; transverse 

 veinlets white. Length of the body 9 lines; expansion of the fore wings 

 28 lines. 



a. Australia. Presented by Sir G. Grey. 



63. Phanekoptera ? tenuis. 



Mas. Pallide testacea, gracillima ; oculi elliptici, non prorninuli ; pro- 

 thorax longus, subsulcatus, postice subcarinatus, carinis lateralibus 

 bene determinatis ; sternum integrum; cerci graciles; pedes 

 gracillimi, femoribus inermibus, tibiis spinulosis; ala anticce per- 

 anyustce ; alee posticce albce, plaga apicali pallide testacea. 



Male. Pale testaceous, smooth, very slender. Head with the usual 

 structure, a little narrower than the prothorax. Eyes elliptical, not pro- 

 minent. Palpi with the usual structure. Antennae long, slender. Pro- 

 thorax ehmgate ; disk flat, widening hindward, with two well-defined lateral 

 keels, and with a slight longitudinal furrow which towards the hind border 

 is replaced by a slight keel ; fore border hardly excavated ; sides and hind 

 border slightly rounded. Sternum not notched. Cerci and the two lower 

 appendajics lanceolate, slender. Legs long, very slender; femora unarmed; 

 hind femora slightly incrassated for a little more than half the length from 

 the base; four anterior tibiae with a few very minute spines; hind tibiae 

 with minute spines. Fore wings very narrow, shorter by three lines than 

 the hind wings; areolets mostly irregular. Hind wings white; apical 



