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of frons about 8 parallel, transverse blackish lines on each side 

 (sutures of clvpcius, etc., sometimes infuscate.) Pronotum sub- 

 anteriorly wit'h a someAvhat feeble, arched, repeatedly broken 

 blackis^h transverse line extending^ from' side to side. Scutellum 

 with usually 2 pale brownish spedks about the middle. Tegmma 

 hyaline pale cinereous, nervures brownish. Bristles on legs 

 blackish brown. 



Vertex twice as wide as long, rounded apically; frons broad, 

 not widening- from basal margin to antennal articulation, about 

 two and a quarter times as wide as the base of the clypeus; cly- 

 peus a little broader than lorae; temples very narrow- Prono- 

 1am longer than the 'head, posterior margin truncate. First 

 apical cell basallv in a line with the l)ase of the exterior suli- 

 apical cell and much longer than it; second apical cell 5-hedral, 

 sides more or less straight (except the apical margin). 



Male valve about three-fourths of the length of the yth. ab- 

 dominal sternite (which is apically truncate) ami about one-third 

 of the length of t'he plates which are furnis'hed with bristly hairs. 

 Fvgofers about the same length as, or a littl'.> longer than the 

 ponies, furnished with bristly hairs. 



Female: 7th. sternite about twice as long as the 6th, longi- 

 tudinally sulcate and apically notched in the middle to admit 

 base of sawcase; pygofers about 4 times as long as 7t'h. sternite. 

 furnished with granules w'hic'h emit short bristlv hairs; oviposi- 

 tor longer than the pvgofers. 



Lengfih (male) 4s^-5-^- mill; (female) 54-5I mill. 



Hab : Quefnsland, Cairns rvii-viii), Pundabers: (ix-xii), 

 Redlvnch (vii), Lucinda Point (vii). on grasses : Koebele 2296 on 

 sand-hills (ix). New South AA^'ales. Svdney (\). Parramatta C'l). 

 probably introduced. 



2. contemptns sp. nov. 



Testaceous, the vertex with a curved blackish brown line an- 

 teriorly, parallel with the anterior mar'gin; frons wit'h a brown- 

 ish black line close to basal margin and parallel with it ; clypeus 

 more or less brownish. Pronotum more or less clouded with 

 greyish. Tegmina pale yellowish hyaline ; apical veins brownish ; 

 wings smoky. Abdominal tergites more or less blac'kis'h on the 

 disk, laterally more or less pallid. 



Vertex a little more produced perhaps than in plebeius, fronb 

 narrowing suddenly soon after its basal margin as far as an- 

 tennae, then narrowing gradually to clypeus, which is sublinear, 



