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angles of cruciform elevation, black. Abdomen deep brownish, 

 somewhat luteous. with darker bands on apical segmental margins. 

 Tegmina vitreous, costa green on basal half, thence deep lirown. 

 'Other venation Ijrown, with apical veins narroAvly infuscated and 

 veins at the bases of second and third apical areas deeply and 

 broadly margined Avith fuscous. Wings with apical veins nari-owly 

 fuscously margined. Head beneatli with lateral striae, and central 

 ■sulcus to face black, legs green, with fore and intermediate tibiae 

 and tarsi brown, opercula broad, brown, overlapping at centre. 

 .obli(iue at hind margins, rostrum barely reaching hind coxae. 



Lenr/fh. — 37 mm.; exp. teg. 114 mm. 



Hab. — Blackbutt, Queensland. 



Allied to P. fnmipetmis, Ashton, from which it may lie clearly 

 distinguished by the different marking of tegmina and wings, the 

 greater size, the more convex front to head, and the very oblique, 

 angular opercula. 



PSALTODA IX8ULAKIS, n. sp. 



JJead pale yellow; base of front, Avliole of vertex, and broad 

 fascia from eyes through vertex, black. Pronofum black, anterior 

 .marginal transverse fascia, followed by two oblique spots, a narrow 

 central fascia and two large triangular discal spots, pale yellow. 

 Posterior margin pale yellow. Mesonotum pale yellow, two central 

 •obconical spots, the apices of which unite with the lateral angles of 

 a broad central lanceolate spot, wliich then occupies the whole space 

 before cruciform elevation, and two broader exterior obconical 

 fasciae, black. Abdomen shiny black, two patches of silvery tomen- 

 'tum one on each side of second segment. Body beneath yellowish- 

 white, streaks to femora and fore tibiae black, rostrum black, 

 reaching hind coxae. Opercula outwardly oblique, rounded pos- 

 ;teriorly. Tegmina and wings viti'eous, immaculate, venation near 

 ■base yellowish, outwardly fuscous. 



Length, 26 mm., exp. teg. 76 mm. 



flab. — Lord Howe Island. 



Allied to P. harrisii. Leach. 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE. 



Fig. 1. — Macrotristria thophordes, n. sp. Natural size. 



Fig. 2. — Macrotristria frenchi, n. sp. Natural size. 



Fig. 3. — Psa/toda adonis, n. sp. Natural size. 



F"'ig. 4. — Psaltoda insidaris, n. sp. x 3. 



