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The headquarters of this eosmopoHtan genus are in Central 

 and South America. 



The Austrahan species of Tctii^(>)iia are readily separable by 

 color and size: 



1. Length more than 15 mill 7 cocrulcsccns (l-abr.) 



I a. Length under 15 mill 2 



2. Ground color pale 3 



2a. Ground color dark 7 



3. Ground color distinctly yellowish 4 



3a. Ground color pale greenish-grey, or greyish-white, or 



pale cinereous 6 



4. Tegniina immaculate 5 



4a. Claval commissure blackish-brown. . . .4 parthaon sp. nov. 



5. V^ertex 4 times as broad as long. (sec. Walker) 



8 quad rata ( Walker j 



5a. \ertex not more than one-half wider than long 



3 pasiphac sp. nov. 



6. A central dark longitudinal stripe down the head, pro- 



notum, scutellum and commissure. .2 pcrkinsi sp. nov. 

 6a. Above mentioned stripe absent i albida (Walker). 



7. Black with orange red markings 6 ancnwhia sp. nov. 



7a. Dark metallic bluishrgreen with ochraceous markings. 



5 pettimolua sp. nov. 



X. B. y alboiiiargiuafa (Sign.) not included. 



I. albida (Walker.) 



fcttigonia albida, Walker, 1851, List. Hom., 767, (nee. Walker, 

 777) '> Signoret, 1853, Ann. Soc. Ent., France, (3) I, 663, 

 PI. 21 f. 3; Alelichar, 1903, Hom. Ceylon, 157 (*). 



This species varies a little in size and pattern. (Jne example 

 in my collection, from Ceylon, has a typical rig*ht clavus, but in 

 tlie left, the axillary vein joins the middle of the anal vein. 



Hab: Queensland, Cairns (vii-viii). Nelson (vii) and Bunda- 

 berg (ix-xii) on sugar cane and various grasses; also occurs in 

 Ceylon (my collection), Bombay (Melichar), Celebes (Breddin), 

 Philippines (Stal). West and South Africa (Stal). and Mada- 

 gascar (my collection). 



koebclei, sp. nov. 

 Slender; pale testaceous; margin connecting vertex and frons 



* This is not, as Melicliar states (1. c.—) />ii!lida Waiker 776, wliich on the contr»ry= 

 alhida Walker 'I'l-^nigrifascia Walker, an .-Vmerican speces. The Sieilian var. pallida 

 Wrtlker (781) of AgUnn omata requires a now name, for which I propos^e omatula. 



