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HAB. Common throughout Queensland; bred from a Jassid, 

 2291, 'by Mr. Koebele, and by myself from very different species. 



12. P. hclluo, sp. nov. 



Head with the front and face covered with glittering white, 

 or whitish, tomentum, behind the eyes with grey at the sides, 

 and between with dark fuscous. Antennae black or piceous, 

 third joint acuminately produced at the apex and apparently 

 always dark in colour. Mesothorax with rather dense fuscous 

 tomentum; at the sides in front and the pleura with grey or 

 whitish; the metanotum densely covered with whitish tomen- 

 tum; scutellum with a few hairs, so short and fine, as to be seen 

 with difficulty; halteres yellowish-brown or testaceous, dark at 

 base. Wings somewhat smoky, clearer in the female, the neura- 

 tion black or very dark brown, paler at the base, stigma ob- 

 scure brown, subequal to the fourth costal segment, or rather 

 shorter, small cross-vein opposite the apex of the auxiliary. 

 Legs black or pitchy, the apex of femora, the tibiae (which, how- 

 ever, are more or less dark or infuscate in parts) the tarsi (ex- 

 cept the apical joint) yellow or yellowish. 



Abdomen with dense and even, dark fuscous tomentum, and 

 greyish wedge-shaped lateral tomentose spots, the basal seg- 

 ■ment more or less evidently grey-banded, and with no line of 

 'bristles on each side; the dorsum often with more or less evi- 

 dent, and often irregular, impressions on one or more segments, 

 the surface not noticeably pilose; hypopyg'ium of the male 

 lar*ge, with sparse and very short, inconspicuous hairs, some- 

 what shining in some aspects, impressed (often irregularly) at 

 the base, and with a distinct lateral lobe on the right side, which 

 is not covered with tomentum. Ovipositor of female straight 

 or nearly so. Length 2 . 5-3 . 5 mm. 



HAB. Bundaberg, Queensland, bred from nymphs of Sip- 

 hanta sp. on several occasions. Mr. Koebele bred this species 

 from another genus of Poecilopterine Fulgorids, found on 

 Ricinocarpiis at Sydney, N. S. W. (No. 2362); his number for 

 Bundaberg was 2326. 



13. P. KocbcJci, sp. nov. 



This species agrees in almost every way with P. hclJno, but I 

 have no doubt it is distinct in spite of the extraordinary re- 



