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4- partliaon, sp. nov. i^Pl. XX ill, iig-. 1-3). 



Same size and form as I. pasi[>hac bvit differently patterned, 

 and frons a little more swollen. 



Head, pronolum, scutellum, tegiiiina and underside pale yel- 

 lowish, more or less tinged with orange. Eyes, 2 spots at base 

 of pronotum, 2 at anterior margin of scutellum, claval commis- 

 sure, etc., blackish. Ocelli pale greenish brown. \\'ings milky, 

 veins more or less orange-yellow. Leg hairs pale. Abdomen 

 orange. Membrane internallv smoky. 



Male: Last abdominal sternite truncate, plates a litile more 

 than twice as long as above; basal half broad, roundly narrow- 

 ing, then more rapidly so towards the middle line of the abdo- 

 men, apices acute, fringed with soft hairs; pygofers much longer 

 than plates. 



Female: Pygofers longer and narrower than in T. pasipliae, 

 about 3 times as long as last sternite, which is roundly emar- 

 ginate; pygofers widen out a little before middle, then narrow 

 rapidly; posteriorly narrowlv truncate in profile 



Length 10-10^ mill. 



Hab: Queensland, Cairns fviii), Kuranda (viii), on Sac- 

 churnni officinale and grasses. 



The nymph of this form is figured on PI. XXIIL fig. 3. 



5. pcttiiuohi'.t, sp. nov. 



Pale ochraceous, with the following markings blackish tinged 

 more or less with metallic greenish or bluish — on the anterior 

 margin of the head — 3 rather blotchy spots, and 2 at the base ; 

 ihe lateral margins of the pronotum and 2 spots at the a])ical 

 margin ; at the base a blotch which is somewhat of the conven- 

 tional figure of a bat with out-stretched wings, the '"head" touch- 

 ing the intero-posterior angles of the anterior spots. Scutellum 

 with 3 anterior spots. Frons with 2 submedian longitudinal 

 stripes, sometimes meeting posteriorly; these are shortly- pec- 

 tmate, representing the usual striations on the TctigoniaArons.. 

 but the lateral parts of the striations are pale ochraceous, con- 

 colorous with the ground color of the face. Tegmina dark me- 

 tallic green, costal cell opaque whitish (or pale yellowish) nar- 

 rowly bordered with black. Abdominal tergites mostly bluish- 

 black. Anterior and intermediate tibiae and tarsi dark. 



Male : Penultimate sternite roundly emarginate, ultimate 

 truncate, plates formed much as in T. parthaon but about 3 times 



