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a wide, middle, immaculate area. Underside pale marked with 

 brownish black. Veins of tegmina mostly whitish. Tergite? 

 laterally marked with black. Ocelli either absent, or present on 

 one side. Frons convex basa.lly. flattening graduidly towards 

 the truncate apex. Clypeus su'b-parallelsided, broader than t'he 

 lorae. Genae scarcely angular posteriorly. Pronotum shorter 

 than the vertex. Tegmina with 3 or 4 discoidal. and 5 apical 

 cells. 



Female : 7th sternite very obtusangulately emarginate ; pygo- 

 fers long and narrow, 5 to 6 times as long as 7th sternite ; ovi- 

 positor about one third longer than pygofers. Tegmina not 

 nearly reaching apex of abdomen. 



Length nearly 6 mill. 



Hab: Queensland. Bundaberg. on grass (ix-xii); a speci- 

 men from Brisbane (xi) mav be distinct. 



2. parinilo, sp. nov. 



(PI. XXIT, figs. T-3.) 



When alive, metallic green, but fades after death to a shiny 

 testaceous ; tegmina and tergites more or less greyish metallic. 

 Face pale sordid brownish, legs more or less marked with brown. 



Female : elongate. ta])ering anteriorly and posteriorly. Ver- 

 tex about 3 times as long as wide between the eves, anteriorly 

 acuminate, somewhat ascendant. Frons ^-hedral. long-diamond 

 shaped, with a fifth side anteriorly, about as wide as clypeus. 

 which is a trifle wider than the lorae : the latter do not quite 

 reach the posterior margin of the genae. Tegmina very short 

 truncate. Ultimate segment roimdlv produced, pvgofers elon- 

 gate, narrow, largely exposing the verv long ovipositor. 



Length 6] mill ; width about t mill. 



Hab: Queensland. Bundaberg (ix-xii). on grasses. 



There is also a single male from Bundaberg (xi) which prob- 

 ably belongs to this. Head acute anteriorly, more or less por- 

 rect. about one-half, or a little more, longer than wide between 

 the eyes. 



Length 4 mill. 



Female nymphs are very similar to the adults. 



T think it is this species that has been described by Buckton 

 zs a Membracid ( ! !) under the name of PhU\a pan'ula (tqot 

 Mon. Membr. p. 57. PI. 8. fig. 4.) 



